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UN  ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 4
 
     Posting Date: 09/30/89        Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
     UNITEX Network, USA           ISSN: 1043-7932
 
     HANS-DIETRICH GENSCHER, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the
     Federal Republic of Germany, said that "Because we Germans are
     aware of our responsibility for the Second World War, we
     perceive it our duty to work for a better world:  for a world of
     peace, democracy and solidarity between nations, freedom and
     human rights."  The Polish nation was the first victim of the war
     deliberately unleashed by Hitlerian Germany 50 years ago.  He
     gave assurance that that right to live in secure borders would
     not be called into question through territorial claims by "us
     Germans", either now or in the future.
 
     Since the inception of the Federal Republic of Germany, he said,
     it has framed a European peace policy -- as a member of the
     European Community and the Atlantic Alliance and as a member of
     the family of Western democracies, he said.  The European
     Community was heading for a European Union which regarded itself
     as a factor of economic and political stability in the world.
 
     His country agreed with its Western friends that the reform
     processes in Central and Eastern Europe were in the interest of
     all Europe and of the world, he said, adding that the reform
     process was not a case of one side's opinion being adopted by
     the other, but rather a process of self-reflection on the common
     foundations of European culture and history.
 
     The two German States had already made substantial contributions
     toward d|tente and disarmament in Europe, he went on, adding
     that those endeavours were founded on the Basic Treaty with the
     German Democratic Republic and guided by the joint declarations
     issued by Chancellor Kohl and General Secretary Honecker on 12
     March 1985 and 8 September 1987.
 
     The two German States must, each in its own fashion, contribute
     towards overcoming the things that separated the Europeans from
     each other, he said.  His Government wholeheartedly supported
     the process of European unification within the European
     Community as well as the efforts of European countries aimed at
     reform.  The German Democratic Republic could contribute through
     reforms aimed at greater openness in Europe, just as the Soviet
     Union, Poland and Hungary were already doing.  A policy of
     reform would open up new prospects in the German Democratic
     Republic for young people, he said, adding that this would
     encourage people to stay in the country.
 
     The Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and
     Shorter-Range Nuclear Missiles (INF Treaty) was an important
     step towards controlled disarmament, he said.  Whoever had more
     weapons must disarm more.  The meetings between Secretary of
     State Baker and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze had provided signs
     of hope.  Negotiations on a comprehensive, global and verifiable
     ban on chemical weapons must be completed.
 
     (END OF TAKE 4)
 
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