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Subject: UN  ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 3
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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)

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