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Subject: UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 2
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Date: 10 Oct 89 17:23:09 GMT
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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 2

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

     Continuing, the Foreign Minister of Seychelles, Mrs. DE ST.
     JORRE, said the waters of the Caribbean and the Pacific had also
     been so polluted.  Those zones were now saturated, and the
     transnational corporations were looking for more dumping sites
     in developing countries.  Small island states had very scarce
     resources to fight such activities.  The Seychelles, for
     example, consisted of many small islands flung over one million
     kilometres of water. It was very hard to patrol such vast areas
     of ocean and so many islands.

     She urged solidarity and co-operation to make sure that
     legislative measures to stop such dumping of toxic wastes were
     translated into deeds.

     The energy consumption of the industralized countries was the
     main source of biospherical pollution, she said.  They applied
     advanced technologies that were not suited for the developing
     countries.  These countries needed intermediate or "adapted"
     technologies that were non-pollutants and more appropriate for
     their needs.

     She said further that the environment could only be protected as
     long as hunger and poverty were eliminated.  Many developing
     countries had to over-exploit their natural resources to
     maintain their export earnings. Arable land had thus been turned
     to desert.  It was vital, therefore, to implement an environment
     policy compatible with long-term development.

     "This is not the time for Utopian writings about safaris and
     coconut trees," she said.  Rather, it was time to take resolute
     and concerted action to preserve the planet for future
     generations.

     She said that the problems of development were international in
     nature.  In order to solve these problems, the poorer countries
     must be allowed access to financial resources and must also
     benefit from a world economic situation that supported their own
     efforts.  A concept of long-term development should include the
     need to fulfil basic needs, stable economic growth and the rapid
     improvement of the quality of life in developing countries.

 * Origin: UNITEX --> Toward a United Species (1:107/501)


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