Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!gatech!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!ccnysci!unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org From: unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) Newsgroups: misc.headlines.unitex Subject: UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 2 Message-ID: <3255@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 13:57:51 GMT Sender: news@ccnysci.UUCP Lines: 61 Approved: patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 2 Posting Date: 09/30/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989 UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932 Mr. DE MICHELIS, Foreign Minister of Italy, went on to say integration must be sought gradually and pragmatically, wherever and whenever it could be accomplished by suitable means. For that reason, Italy welcomed and supported regional groupings -- the existing ones to which it belonged and those still at the embryonic stage, yet full of promise. The new trend towards forming regional associations, on a direct and immediate basis, without jeopardizing the equilibrium of States belonging to different international groups should be welcomed. He said the survival of the planet called for the strenghtening of multilateral institutions, for they could help the world reorient its perceptions of danger and decide on the reallocation of resources, which was especially important when the amounts wasted on the arms race were considered. For example, the deterioration of the environment was a problem that transcended ideologies and differences in political systems. It was not just a specific consequence of an obsession with profits, but was also found where public opinion exerted insufficient influence and where technological backwardness damaged nature in ways that had yet to be fully explored. "What can be done in a world that is changing so rapidly before our very eyes"? he asked. Western Europe must continue its progress towards a new supranational identity. Many things depended both within and outside the continent, on the success or failure of that revolutionary project. The European Community must make an effort, in the years to come, to identify new forms of co-operation, particularly in Central Europe and the southern shores of the Mediterranean. Central Europe was the ideal place for the formation of political, economic and cultural ties, in such a way as to smooth the path of continental integration. During the month of September, with its bitter anniversaries for Europe, it was significant that in Poland and Hungary an omnipresent totalitarian power structure should progressively make way for alternative methods of governments. Nor could the European Community turn a blind eye to its southern borders. If the Mediterranean was to become an area of permanent instability, Europe and the African countries would have to tackle jointly the problems of trade, investments and immigration, also with a view to promoting sufficient development to root labour forces in their country of origin. (END OF TAKE 2) * Origin: UNITEX --> Toward a United Species (1:107/501) --- Patt Haring | United Nations | FAX: 212-787-1726 patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu | Information | BBS: 201-795-0733 patth@ccnysci.BITNET | Transfer Exchange | (3/12/24/9600 Baud) -=- Every child smiles in the same language. -=-