By NIKOLA! OBOTOV Novosti Press Agency

_, MOSCOW — What have we One to sterngthen the process Of detente? What have we done Or the aims of the United Na

tions?

ce participants of the 25th ey Assembly of the World “eration of United Nations Associations, (WFUNA), which pened in Moscow on Oct. 1

ave to answer these questions. ‘l0Wever, the tasks of the dele- ig from national associations a Not limited to the summing A] . of results and analysis of ork. The agenda also includes © question of enhancing the Tole of the Federation and. its | Tational associations in solving € topical problems of today. a Ou have gathered at a re- , sa eable time when, as a re- ; ad of the struggle of peace ,| wees, great successes have _| ,-©" achieved in the jrestructur- ; the Of international relations on | ape basis of peaceful coexistence | States with different social. Al qaems,” said Vitaly Ruben, j| ,2itman of the Soviet of Na- of ualities of the Supreme Soviet the USSR. | Phasing the great signifi- 2} C& Of the results of the Con-

ti Widespread interest in the ac- Vities of the multi-nationals is ththtened by the approach of Ne World Conference on Multi- in wonal Corporations to be held "Toronto, Nov. 14-16, 1975.

This is the last of a four-part

©, Multinationals and the ung States, in the USSR pulse- ; ion, Asia and Africa Today ly,_8 1975).. The writer, I. Vv, is a Soviet economics

m, Diktat to “Partnership” he international corporations ie resorted to a new tactic in Ronn into the national eco- tri 1€s of the developing coun- *s and in exercising influence oe policy. This new tactic tug, down to the replacement of Mo © methods with more ca- —«Cuflaged methods, including ehip™ with local capital. y .~ Process is particularly } anifest in politics. For in- Ce, in the Republic of South ed a2, the Duponts have remov- and a name from a subsidiary, State Olaroid Co. of the United | the -. have even tried to ease Tune ® of employment and re- The tion of labor in its outlet. € tactics of adaptation is cong Practised in the sphere of Inves en proper. In its Foreign ‘Nal cent Code the Internatio- th la of Commerce warn €rnational corporations fecinst 32 “typical” abuses in

, & countries. “Bus Special research entitled Countries in the Developing €s" carried out by the

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ference on Security and Coop- eration in Europe, he drew the attention of the assembly to the fact that the main task of the UN today is to work for the consolidation of detente.

Moreover, priority should be given to halting the arms race and the achievement of practical results in disarmament.

“In other words” stressed Ru- ben, “political detente must be complemented by military de- tente.”

World Public Opinion

Speaking of the work done by the Federation with other non- governmental organizations in the field of disarament. Horace Perer, the Federation’s head, stressed the need for further ac- tions to: mobilize world public opinion for world-wide recogni-

tion of the treaty on non-proli-

feration of nuclear weapons. Perrera also called for efforts to elaborate and ratify the treaty on the complete ban of all nuclear weapon tests and

for work on governments to’

undertake commitments on gen- eral and complete disarmament, and the earliest convocation of

the world disarmament confer-

ence. Since the first UN General As-

PARTNERS

Dibold Institute of the United States lays down approximately the same recommendations. — The international corporations are beginning to take account of the national plans of the reci- pient countries in inner-firm planning, to agree not to insist on excessive privileges in the recipient state that might com- plicate their relations with the given country in the future and to revise from time to time the agreements and contracts. These contracts and agreements have been increasingly including a

Turning political detente into military detente

sembly session the Soviet Union has introduced important initia- tives in the field of disarma- ment. Many of them served as the basis for decisions adopted by the UN.

The Soviet Union has submit- ted two most important propos- als on disarmament for the con- sideration of the 30th General Assembly session.

The. first concerns the prohi- bition of the development and production of new types of wea- pons of mass destruction. The second is aimed at the complete ban of nuclear weapon tests.

The approval and support of these important proposals by the plenary assembly of the WFUNA would undoubtedly facilitate their implementation.

UN Enhances Detente

In his report, Fyodor Konstan- tinov, head of the Soviet UN Association stated that the role of the UN is steadily enhancing the conditions of detente. The situation makes it imperative for the UN to take further steps to- wards the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.

“It is necessary that Israel withdraw its. troops from all Arab territories it occupied in

“formula of withdrawal” agreed in advance. The purpose of this formula is to regulate the rela- tions between the international corporation and the recipient ccuntry, should the latter for one reason or another decide to discontinue the operations of the corporation.

Subsidiaries of international ccrporations with 100% control are being replaced with mixed companies with the participation of local business or even the state sector.

In isolated cases the develop-

Disarmament, Mid East, Chile, Korea . . . are some of the urgent items before the 25th session of the United Nations General

Assembly.

1967, that the legitimate rights of the Arab people of Palestine, including its right to a state of its own be ensured. Also that the rights of all Middle East coun- tries to independent develop- ment be guaranteed.

“Tt is necessary that the work of the Geneva Conference be re- sumed with the participation of all states concerned, including representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

ing countries have managed to attract the participation of inter- national corpcrations without share control or even to “cut off’ the capital. accompanying the: knowhow purchased. For in- stance, the Kleckner Humboldt Deutz company is building in Algeria a diesel engine plant which will be handed over to the

‘Algerian government.

Many of the contracts include a so-called “de-investment’’ re- servation stipulating that shares of the international corporation will be gradually turned over to

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“The UN is in a position to promote a just settlement of the Cyprus problem on the basis of the implementation of its well- known resolutions. The time is ripe for stepping up the peace settlement in Korea.

“The world expects the fulfil- ment of the resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly de- manding the restoration of the principal human rights and free- dom in Chile.

the local entrepreneurs in whole or in part.

“Managerial contracts” have gained wide currency too. Under their terms an international cor- poration will build a plant and

_ The turn toward ‘partnership’

will manage it on a commission, .

but without share control.

Quite often international cor- porations agree to finance social and other programs in the devel- oping countries. (Incidentally, the outlays for these programs are tax-exempt).

The policy of the governments of the Western countries has changed to a certain degree too. In some conflict situations they merely present démarches.

Undoubtedly these changes have taken place in the wake of the new situation taking shape at present for the international corporations in the Third World.

However, the tactics of adap- tation is not limited merely to general passive retreat. :

As an inalienable component,

it also implies the regrouping of

their forces and the launching of a new large-scale social manoe- uvre designed to shift the focus of the conflict with the young states from the sphere of the world market to the inner sphere of their economic and social structures.

What is meant is that imperial- ism and the international corpor- ations are giving up the policy to preserve economic and social backwardness of the former co- lonies in favor of stepping up cultivation of the mass of loca bourgeoisie as a class which wculd guarantee the retaining of these countries within the orbit of capitalist economy.

—Asia and Africa Today