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Subject: UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 6
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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 6

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

     Continuing, Foreign Minister KRAVETS of the Ukraine said he
     advocated broad and constructive interaction among all members
     of the international community in eliminating hotbeds of tension
     through political means on a just, honest and, consequently,
     solid basis.  All States, big or small alike, as well as
     international organizations and, above all, the United Nations,
     had an important contribution to make to that end.

     The United Nations had not yet fully revealed its potential in
     conflict prevention.  The resources of the Security Council and
     the possibilities of the Secretary-General were yet to be
     utilized in full measure.  The Ukraine shared the conclusions
     contained in the report by the Secretary-General on the role and
     significance of preventive diplomacy.

     The international community needed to develop and improve the
     United Nations' potential in monitoring, assessing and
     predicting threats to the environment, as well as in providing
     relief assistance in case of environmental emergencies.  He
     supported the idea of setting up in the framework of the United
     Nations a centre for urgent environmental assistance. The
     activities of that centre could bring conservational work of
     international organizations to a higher level and would be a
     practical contribution to mitigating environmental crises.  The
     conference on the environment and development, scheduled to be
     held in 1992, would have to draft a world strategy for
     environmental survival, he said.

     Today, as never before, he continued, the correctness of a
     State's historical direction was judged by the human dimension
     of its domestic and foreign policy.  One aspect of that was drug
     abuse.  Criminal drug-trafficking syndicates had undermined the
     political and economic foundations of States and entangled
     governmental and judiciary institutions in a cobweb of
     corruption.  Millions of people had lost their health and lives
     to drugs.  The international co-operation that had clearly
     emerged had to be further developed.  Close interaction and
     co-ordinated efforts were needed in combating drug traffic and
     abuse.  The United Nations could take the next logical step in
     that direction by proclaiming a decade for combating drug abuse
     and illicit traffic in narcotic drugs.  His country was prepared
     to submit a draft resolution to be considered at the current
     session of the Assembly.

     In concluding, he said the Ukraine was prepared to co-operate
     actively with all countries in strengthening the international
     legal order and elaborating specific measures to enhance the
     role of international law.  His country's policy of asserting
     the supremacy of international law was intimately related to the
     process of creating a State based on a genuine rule of law.  He
     stood in full solidarity with all States that were striving to
     attain high standards of legal protection of the individual.

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


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