>From: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: President Jammeh speaks to Genaral Assembly >Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 03:46:58 EDT > >Here is a summary of the speech given by President Jammeh to the U.N >General Assembly, taken from the U.N Newsservice > >Gambian President asks for more "even-handed" response to humanitarian >interventions. >24 September -- The Gambia President Alhaji Yahya Jammeh on Friday >criticized >the slow and sometimes total lack of response to conflicts in Africa. > >While welcoming recent humanitarian interventions, "we insist that one life >in Angola or elsewhere in Africa is no less important than one life in >Kosovo >or East Timor. The Security Council must therefore be even-handed and >establish principled criteria for humanitarian intervention," he said. The >President also said there should be a concerted international effort to >address the issue of impunity in the wake of the many conflicts the world >over. > >Turning to the question of economic development in Africa, President Jammeh >said his country strongly appeals for across-the-board cancellation of all >Africa's debts "so as to give us a new lease of life in the coming >millennium." > >While not irreproachable, the United Nations was "definitely irreplaceable >and indispensable," the President said. However, the Security Council was >in >need of "serious and urgent reform," he said, pointing to the lack of >African >representation among permanent members. "This anomaly should be rectified >immediately," the President said, and the veto power abolished. The >President >also said that his country believed that the General Assembly should >"seriously reconsider its position on the readmission of the Republic of >China on Taiwan to the United Nations." > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------