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A stronger

UN

processes. The Geneva Conference on
Disarmament should become a forum
to internationalize efforts on the transi-
tion to a nuclear-free, non-violent
world.

One should not forget the capacities
of the International Court either. The
General Assembly and the Security
Council could approach it more often
for consultative conclusions on interna-
tional disputes. Its mandatory jurisdic-
tion should be recognized by all on
mutually agreed upon conditions. The
permanent members of the Security
Council, taking into account their spe-
cial responsibility, should take the first
step in that direction.

We are convinced that a comprehen-
sive system of security is at the same
time a system of universal law and
order ensuring the primacy of interna-
tional law in politics.

The UN Charter gives extensive
powers to the Security Council. Joint
efforts are required to ensure it can use
them effectively. For this purpose,
there would be sense in holding meet-
ings of the Security Council at the
Foreign Ministers’ level when opening
a regular session of the General As-
sembly to review the international
situation and jointly look for effective
ways for its improvement.

It would be useful to hold meetings of
the Security Council not only at the
headquarters of the UN in New York,
but also in regions of friction and ten-
sion and alternate them. among the
capitals of the permanent member
states.

Special missions of the Council to
regions of actual and potential conflicts
would also help consolidate its author-
ity and enhance the effectiveness of
decisions adopted.

We are convinced that cooperation
between the UN and regional organiza-
tions could be considerably expanded.
Its aim is the search for a political
settlement of crisis situations.

In our view, it is important to hold
special sessions of the General Assem-
bly on the more urgent political prob-
lems and individual disarmament issues
more often if the efficiency of the lat-
ter’s work is to be improved.

We emphatically stress the need for
making the status of important political
documents passed at the United Na-
tions by consensus more binding moral-
ly and politically. Let me recall that
they include, among others, the Final
Document of the Ist Special Session of
the United Nations General Assembly
devoted to disarmament, the Charter of
Economic Rights and Obligations of
States, and others.

In our opinion, we should have set up
long ago a world consultative council
under UN auspices uniting the world’s
intellectual elite. Prominent scientists,
political and public figures, represen-
tatives of international public organiza-
tions, cultural workers, people in litera-
ture and the arts, including laureates of
the Nobel Prize and other international
prizes of world-wide significance, emi-
nent representatives of the churches
could seriously enrich the spiritual and
ethical potential of contemporary world
politics.

To ensure that the United Nations
and its specialized agencies operate at
full capacity one should come to realize
that it is impermissible to use financial
levers for bringing pressure to bear on
it. The Soviet Union will continue to
cooperate actively in overcoming bud-
get difficulties arising at the United Na-
tions.

And finally, about the United Na-

Gorbachev and
Reagan meet
for the first time
at their summit
in Geneva,
November
1985.

tions Secretary-General: The _inter-
national community elects an authori-
tative figure enjoying everybody’s trust
to that high post. Since the Secretary-
General is functioning as a represen-
tative of every member-country of the
organization, all states should give the
maximum of support to help fulfill this
responsible mission. The international
community should encourage the
United Nations Secretary-General in
missions of good offices, mediation and
reconciliation.

Why are we so persistent in raising
the question of a comprehensive sys-
tem of international peace and se-
curity?

Simply because it is impossible to put
up with a situation in which the world
has found itself on the threshold of the
third millenium — facing the threat of
annihilation, in a state of constant ten-
sion, in an atmosphere of suspicion and
strife, spending huge funds and the
work and talent of millions only to in-
crease mutual mistrust and fears.

One can speak as much as one
pleases about the need for terminating
the arms race, uprooting militarism, or
about cooperation. Nothing will change
unless we start acting.

The political and moral core of the
problem is the trust of states and peo-
ples in one another, respect for interna-
tional agreements and institutions. And
we are prepared to switch from con-
fidence measures in individual spheres
to a large-scale policy of trust which
would gradually shape a system of
comprehensive security. But such a
policy should be based on the com-
munity of political statements and real
positions.

The idea of a comprehensive system
of security is the priority stage for a
possible new organization of life in our
common planetary home. In other
words, it is a passport into the future,
where security for all is the guarantee of
the security for every individual. We
hope that the current session of the Un-
ited Nations General Assembly will
jointly develop and concretize this idea.

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