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 3 Message-ID: <3256@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 13:58:09 GMT Sender: news@ccnysci.UUCP Lines: 70 Approved: patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 3 Posting Date: 09/30/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989 UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932 Continuing, Mr. DE MICHELIS, Foreign Minister of Italy, said it would be tragic to succumb to inertia in the face of the drug scourge. Countries like Colombia which, in order to uproot the structures that threatened their sovereignty, had courageously decided to break the pattern of complicity, must be helped. He, therefore, supported the plan for a war on drugs, put forward recently by Prime Minister Manley of Jamaica. It would also be necessary, of course, to remove the roots of the evil by providing farmers, particularly in Latin America, with the means of planting alternative crops, especially in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. On the problem of the environment, he said it would be unforgivable if environmental concerns were allowed to widen the gulf separating South and North. The Western countries, which had enjoyed the greatest production success in history, were calling for environmental measures, without overlooking their own serious flaws. Nor were they unaware of the fears of the poorer countries concerning the impact of environmental measures on the pace of their own development. Here, too, the logic of integration must prevail, with the joint elaboration of a code of conduct, possibly through an international authority responsible for drawing up and implementing a new law on the environment. Today, it was more necessary than ever before to envisage the legal definition of a new kind of crime -- the crime against the natural environment. No development was possible without eliminating, or at least reducing, indebtedness, he said. The Brady Plan represented a political turning point, but the world must go further and reverse the unnatural flow of resources, still pouring into the richer nations from the poor countries. Recent progress from mere debt management to debt reduction had been made possible by various case-by-case solutions. The conclusion of negotiations between certain countries and creditor banks confirmed the merits of that strategy. Italy intended to show the consistency of its policy by immediately waiving repayment of development loans amounting to some $2 billion and would, in the future, conduct its co-operation with those countries exclusively by means of grants. On the more general problem of development, he said further consideration should be given to a new North-South meeting, adequately structured and prepared, to initiate the political dialogue eagerly awaited by the emerging countries. "The new world is not just around the corner, but if we want to start building it today we must make the United Nations the chief instrument of global integration," he said. Particularly out of place in a world moving towards gradual integration were such resolutions, adopted in a different climate, as the one equating Zionism with racism, which should be cancelled. Also, United Nations bodies would be better balanced if the Soviet Union were able to participate in international economic institutions. (END OF TAKE 3) * 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. -=-