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Date: 10 Oct 89 17:24:29 GMT
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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 3

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

     ABDELLATIF FILALI, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation
     of Morocco, said that the world situation was on the threshold
     of a more promising era, with dialogue and co-operation
     prevailing over confrontation.  The United Nations, which had
     come of age, had become an irreplaceable instrument for leading
     the international community to more concord justice and
     democracy.

     He had noted with interest the proposals and initiatives of a
     number of countries to reduce arms in Europe.  Given Morocco's
     geo-political situation, he could not be indifferent to efforts
     made that affected peace and security in the Mediterranean.  In
     that regard, he supported the concrete measures designed to
     transform the Mediterranean into a zone of peace and
     co-operation.

     With regard to the Middle East, he said, he had hoped it would
     benefit from the climate of international detente, but the
     intransigence of Israel did not give grounds for optimism.  A
     peaceful political settlement to the situation, he stated, must
     involve the following elements:  a total withdrawal of Israel
     from the occupied Arab territory, including Al-Quds; the
     restoration of the inalienable rights of the Palestinians,
     including the establishment of an independent state; and an
     international peace conference on the Middle East, involving the
     five permanent members of the Security Council and the
     representatives of the Palestinian State.  The intifadah had gone
     on for two years, and showed that the Palestinian people would
     spare no sacrifice to gain its dignity.  It was time for Israel
     to end its intransigence and respond to the reiterated appeals
     for a peace conference.

     In Lebanon, he said the Arab tripartite Committee had managed to
     bring about a cease-fire and there were some grounds for
     optimism.  The international community was now duty-bound to
     make efforts to help Lebanon achieve a national consensus so as
     to allow the Lebanese people to exercise full sovereignty over
     their own territory.

     He went on to say that the African continent was on the verge of
     an historical event.  The last bastion of colonialism was
     crumbling in Namibia.  Difficulties might yet come up, but the
     road could no longer be blocked.  He believed that the
     independence process would unfold in the manner that all
     peace-loving people wanted it to.  On the other hand, the
     situation in South Africa was still grave.  The international
     community, while it viewed with interest recent developments in
     South Africa, should remain vigilant until the apartheid system
     had been eliminated.

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