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>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."
>

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