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1992-09-24
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  1. “My Government's plan is to seek the support of fellow members of the South Pacific Forum and other regional groups to which we belong or with which, like the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), we have close and cordial relations, to raise the proposal for consideration by members of the Group of 77 and the Non-Aligned Movement, and to discuss it on a bilateral basis as widely as we can with a view to submitting a resolution to the Assembly at its forty-eighth session. We would hope to see a panel appointed in time to present a report during the forty-ninth session of the General Assembly, and to have it debated in 1995. Like many other countries represented in this Assembly, Papua New Guinea inherited many of its economic, legal and other arrangements from abroad.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  2. “The initiative which my Government proposes is intended to be, in effect, the economic counterpart to "An Agenda for Peace". Our aim is not to engage again in a general debate on development issues - although we have an obvious interest in continuing discussion of the nature, direction, pace and international environment for developmental change but to stimulate the exchange of practical ideas and experiences relevant to enhancing and increasing opportunities for economic participation for the benefit of people in developing countries. In short, the proposal is to seek support for the appointment of a panel of distinguished, expert and experienced persons to prepare a practical report based on experience in diverse countries and on a close, critical analysis of possible options for presentation to the United Nations.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  3. “"An Agenda for Peace" is a most constructive contribution to thinking about conflict-avoidance, conflict-management and conflict-reduction after the end of the cold war. The initiative on self-determination being pursued by the Government of Liechtenstein should provide support for, and assist in, the development of ideas contained in the report. Ongoing discussions concerning options for reform of the United Nations, including the High-Level Working Group set up by the Non-Aligned Movement, as well as many statements made in the current debate, are clearly intended to contribute to the same end. It is surely among the most promising signs of the times that we can talk of a global agenda at all - and that the global agenda should be for peace.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  4. “I am, in fact, spokesman for a movement which mobilized tens of thousands of people to ensure that political and economic development would serve their interests, and which paved the way to Papua New Guinea's independence. It is precisely because of the lessons I learned from, and with, my people that I have chosen to make opportunity and participation the main theme of the policy I shall follow as my Government's Minister for Foreign Affairs. Those lessons are also among the reasons why my Government will be seeking support for an initiative designed to help identify, create, maintain, diversify and enlarge opportunities for economic participation, with particular reference to developing countries.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  5. “In developing countries or, more precisely, countries where development is a far-distant aim rather than a near-reality democracy depends not only on opportunities for political participation, but on opportunities for economic and social participation as well. As one who has played a modest part in constitution-making in Papua New Guinea, I am proud that the National Goals and Directive Principles contained in our national Constitution explicitly recognize that point. I can recall a time, before Papua New Guinea became independent, when not only free elections but free markets were widely regarded as characteristic or, at least, attainable - goals of many developing countries. I can also recall the pain and anger felt by ordinary village people when they discovered that free elections and free markets did not necessarily benefit them.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  6. “The world has learned or, at least, should have learned - from the past. But have we all drawn the right conclusions? And what have we done to act on even the most obvious of our conclusions? It is one thing to welcome the holding of free elections. It is quite another to be certain either that they make a difference, or that they will continue to be held in an orderly, constitutional and fair way. Politicians characteristically promise results. Their ability to be re-elected depends on results. So, too, does democracy itself. In other words, democracy, like security, is more than a matter of politics; it also has economic and social roots.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  7. “It seems distressingly significant that evert after the end of the cold war, and during the global transition which the Secretary-General has so eloquently analysed, part of the world where most humans live and where needs are greatest is still referred to and treated as a very poor third. I ask you. Sir, to cast your mind back to the 1960s, when foreign domination came to an end in many parts of the world, a record number of new Members was admitted to the United Nations and the prospects for democracy and development seemed, by common consent, to be quite bright. Then think of the economic difficulties which often followed, and the dictatorships which all too frequently lasted until the present transition. And then ask why, whatever our hopes might be, we should expect that the future will be different.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  8. “But in doing so I would not be honest unless I added that we are concerned about ensuring that the change is both comprehensive and enduring. My Government is profoundly disturbed by the savage violence and terrible suffering being experienced by the victims of "ethnic cleansing" in the former Yugoslavia and of interracial, religious and ethnic conflicts there and elsewhere. We sympathize with the concerns expressed by the members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and support the efforts being made by the United Nations and the European Economic Community to reduce these conflicts and to provide aid. But, as the Secretary-General has so pointedly reminded the world, there are terrible conflicts and suffering no less worthy of attention in other parts of the world, including Somalia.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  9. “Disappointed though my Government is in the level of agreement reached at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in June this year, we shall continue to support the UNCED effort in particular and similar efforts by the United Nations generally. We have therefore offered to host a regional post-Rio seminar to follow up on UNCED in Port Moresby in November. My Government welcomes the changes which have allowed people in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia to participate directly in national political and economic life again. We welcome them and their Governments to greater participation in international political and economic affairs, too. We welcome no less the changes which have led to the replacement of dictatorships in Africa, Latin America and elsewhere.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  10. “For people in developing countries in particular the economic and social aspects of security are inseparable from and often of great immediate importance than the military and political aspects. If the transition on which so many previous speakers believe we have embarked is to be towards global peace, then we need to pay greater attention to the economic and social issues which divide North and South. Thus my Government supports the proposal to convene, looks forward to taking part in. and hopes for a positive outcome from, the world summit for social development proposed to be held in 1995.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  11. “Even as we welcome the end of the cold war, we would do well to bear in mind the observation made in "An Agenda for Peace", that "the issues between States north and south grow more acute." (A/47/277. para. 8) It is, again in the words of the Jakarta Message: "a time of great promise as well as grave challenge, a time of opportunity amidst pervasive uncertainty." It is no accident that the preamble to the Charter contains not only political, but economic and social objectives, or that the Charter provides for both a Security Council and an Economic and Social Council. Security has never been simply a military or a political question; it has always had economic and social aspects.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  12. “Coming from a region where membership of the United Nations is less widespread than it is in other parts of the world, I pledge my Government's cooperation in the efforts to strengthen links between other South Pacific island States and the United Nations. Previous statements in this debate have made it quite clear that we have, in the words of the Secretary-General in "An Agenda for Peace", "entered a time of global transition." (A/47/277, para. 11) The Jakarta Message issued by the Tenth Summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement, of which my Government has just become a full member, describes the present as "a time of profound change and rapid transition." But transition to what? And will the effects be the same around the globe?”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  13. “Sir, is symbolic of wider changes in the world, so is the presence here for the first time of delegations from States which for a period were incorporated in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. My delegation takes very great pleasure in welcoming the membership of, and participation in the United Nations by, the nine States which were once part of the Soviet Union and the three States which were once part of Yugoslavia whose representatives have just joined us. Their presence provides eloquent testimony to the power of ordinary people to resist - and eventually to overcome - both the ideology and the technology that are used in order to oppress them. With the addition of San Marino, the goal of universal membership - and of global coverage - of the United Nations is now in sight.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  14. “On behalf of the Government and people of Papua New Guinea, I should like to congratulate you. Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session. Your personal presence in this Hall, and your unanimous election to preside over our proceedings, are symbolic not only of the stirring changes which have been occurring in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, but of the manner in which they have been welcomed around the world. In offering you my delegation's greetings, cooperation and support, I should also like to pay tribute to the efficient manner in which your predecessor. Ambassador Samir Shihabi of Saudi Arabia, performed his duties. Just as your election.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)