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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 1

     Posting Date: 10/09/89        Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
     UNITEX Network, USA           ISSN: 1043-7932

     The General Assembly meets this morning to continue its general
     debate.

     JOSEPH N. GARBA (Nigeria), President of the General Assembly,
     called the meeting to order at 10:05 a.m.

     The first speaker, DANIELLE DE. ST. JORRE, Minister for Planning
     and Foreign Affairs of the Seychelles, said the United Nations
     had remained a unique forum where solutions for world peace had
     been found.  She called for a positive international strategy
     for the adoption of concrete resolutions to solve persistent
     problems such as the degradation of the environment, disarmament
     and development.

     In the Indian Ocean, she went on to say, the new climate of
     detente and peace must be reinforced.  She hoped that in that
     spirit, military arsenals, including nuclear weapons, would soon
     be dismantled.  She called for the early convening of the
     conference on the Indian Ocean as a zone of peace.  All parties
     must contribute genuinely to the realization of that objective
     and to real disarmament in that region, she added.

     She was also worried about global pollution of the air and water,
     the general destruction of the ecosystem and the dumping of
     toxic wastes.  Such world problems could be solved only at an
     international level, she stated.  Today, she said, man possessed
     the capacity and knowledge to reverse the disasters and errors
     of the past; science and technology could be used for the
     preservation of the environment.

     The problem of rising sea levels, brought about by global
     climatic changes, was a particular threat to the Seychelles. Two
     thirds of the archipelago would be submerged if the sea level
     continued to rise at the present pace.  She supported the
     Montreal Protocol for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the
     measures being taken to eliminate toxic substances.

     The Seychelles, she stated, had donated, "as a gift to humanity",
     the island of Aldabra that was now a natural conservation site.

     She said further that her Government supported the proposal to
     levy an international tax on pollution.  The money so raised
     could be used to help damaged ecological systems and to assist
     all countries in preserving their environment.

     Continuing, she said there was yet another urgent international
     problem -- toxic waste, that was dumped clandestinely on the
     high seas.  Some of it had already been dumped in the
     south-western part of the Indian Ocean and was threatening the
     shores of her country.

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