① For an active role for AAPSO should take an active and practical role in excowagy and supportis Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones of Zones of Peace. H/Africa. Speech of Hugh Steps, Mee the E.C. of BAASO. The succees of the Berlin Intonatiul Mtg for NWF Zones in June 1988 meeting particularly drew attution to the sippifornt contributin bars made by the itores A As, At & hat Aon to the und fee poren. As the meeting, host, GOR Head of State frich Hemeche, remarket, "the Evopear yardstich is not the only mealwe A glokal concerns. Desucheniiatin is a world issue." He costly expeared gent satisfaction tint participate from so nay region A the word were in attendere, commit that "we have hand te vreme A people represents the nucleu power and the non-nude states, form cut & Wait, from North & Sante, form developed nation and from developer conitores." He comerdad tuut the Born Meetin had taken place at just the right time. "Immediately ata the Mosow sunt which brought togetten Ronald Reage ad Michach Gorbacher, as the Soviet and American intermediate-raye
misiles begin to be eliminated, representative (2) from all over the globe have declared the determination of the world's nations to make their own active contribution to peace and international security through disarmament and detente." He further elaborated this universal • concern of nations both large & small by commenting that "the fate of our planet will not be decided by a mere handful of states. Every nation, big or small, wants to protect for itself that prime & most elemental of human rights, the right to live." These words of Erich However can indeed be taken to describe the new atmosphere in the countries of As, Af, & Lat Am, which, inspired by the initial concrete achievements of the treaties of Tlatelolco and Rarotonga, are determined to make their own
misiles begin to be eliminated, representative (2) from all over the globe have declared the determination of the world's nations to make their own active contribution to peace and international security through disarmament and detente." He further elaborated this universal • concern of nations both large & small by commenting that "the fate of our planet will not be decided by a mere handful of states. Every nation, big or small, wants to protect for itself that prime & most elemental of human rights, the right to live." These words of Erich However can indeed be taken to describe the new atmosphere in the countries of As, Af, & Lat Am, which, inspired by the initial concrete achievements of the treaties of Tlatelolco and Rarotonga, are determined to make their own
(3) practical contribution to the cause of struggling for a nuclear-free world. The Berlin meeting gave a good example of this practical orientate, for instead of restricting dealt to talks A peace in good terms, it brought together politicians & specialists in various fields to discuss such questions as guarantees, control • and verification, the question of non-proliferation, disarmament and development, and 'civil support.' This 'Berlin spirit' should provides a suitable fundamental themes for AAPSO in developing its role in promoting • the cause of a non-nuclear world in the period after the INF treaty. The Berlin Meeting demonstrated decisively the will of the developing countries to play an active role in this process, and AAPSO can play a valuable role in playing in the hands of all countries the valuable experience of particular countries. The sharing of experience multiplies
(3) practical contribution to the cause of struggling for a nuclear-free world. The Berlin meeting gave a good example of this practical orientate, for instead of restricting dealt to talks A peace in good terms, it brought together politicians & specialists in various fields to discuss such questions as guarantees, control • and verification, the question of non-proliferation, disarmament and development, and 'civil support.' This 'Berlin spirit' should provides a suitable fundamental themes for AAPSO in developing its role in promoting • the cause of a non-nuclear world in the period after the INF treaty. The Berlin Meeting demonstrated decisively the will of the developing countries to play an active role in this process, and AAPSO can play a valuable role in playing in the hands of all countries the valuable experience of particular countries. The sharing of experience multiplies
④ icalculably the power of each small country to make its idquent contribution. The relatively adorned experiene A, for example, the centres A the Rasstage Treaty has generated experine Nt only in the overall politia fields A politis and the peace mont, but is the specintat fields A international law, etc., which are of a practical opportunity to a country wittly seeking to consolidate its independence. If AAPSO can become not only a forum but a practical organizing centre for pooling all expertise gained in the experience A buffer zones of peace, then it will be that must hinder cooperation to whittle away at the rights of newly-made countries' sovereignty and befog the issues that will in the military and strategic fields. In addition help it can pinpoint targets for the mass movement, and indeed provide opportunities for the freedom movement in various countries to coordinate and thus make it more difficult for opponents to shunt its military facilities from one country to another.
④ icalculably the power of each small country to make its idquent contribution. The relatively adorned experiene A, for example, the centres A the Rasstage Treaty has generated experine Nt only in the overall politia fields A politis and the peace mont, but is the specintat fields A international law, etc., which are of a practical opportunity to a country wittly seeking to consolidate its independence. If AAPSO can become not only a forum but a practical organizing centre for pooling all expertise gained in the experience A buffer zones of peace, then it will be that must hinder cooperation to whittle away at the rights of newly-made countries' sovereignty and befog the issues that will in the military and strategic fields. In addition help it can pinpoint targets for the mass movement, and indeed provide opportunities for the freedom movement in various countries to coordinate and thus make it more difficult for opponents to shunt its military facilities from one country to another.
Buch a developing practical vore for AAPSO (5) could ever assist people A Afro-Alien desert to play the fulle me they deeve i ifleris developunts within the imperialist heatlande in the divectin A peace. For • example, Bitan itrett , which de the Thatche goount has become a fortrees A nuclea ideology, would not be innen & murdiete the Lefterte of a campaing for NWF zones it Hay were conducted skilfully. A dend har beer advared for a NWZ Zone & Ireland & the Inel Sea which could actualy and Britain's • effectively limit the pheplogut of mulan weapury on ite Eveten flack. Some powe factors weiyt is favor of the succese of such a denad. The Dublin-based state has the well-brown chame is its constitutin which prins stipulates a pontar, A neutrality internati affairs. This iene has recently beer a like one, - the context of the pressme to whicd
Buch a developing practical vore for AAPSO (5) could ever assist people A Afro-Alien desert to play the fulle me they deeve i ifleris developunts within the imperialist heatlande in the divectin A peace. For • example, Bitan itrett , which de the Thatche goount has become a fortrees A nuclea ideology, would not be innen & murdiete the Lefterte of a campaing for NWF zones it Hay were conducted skilfully. A dend har beer advared for a NWZ Zone & Ireland & the Inel Sea which could actualy and Britain's • effectively limit the pheplogut of mulan weapury on ite Eveten flack. Some powe factors weiyt is favor of the succese of such a denad. The Dublin-based state has the well-brown chame is its constitutin which prins stipulates a pontar, A neutrality internati affairs. This iene has recently beer a like one, - the context of the pressme to whicd
(6) The Dublin governt has beer subjected to go with the 'drift' that is extendy the activities A Commits from the economic its the military and stratgic fields. In addition, the powerful fore A Iril nationalin is the force mort dedicated to unphitdiy thire neutralites policy. There has bee seer above all in the debatu eario this year (1988) • between the political party of Iril R, S-F-, and the proponte A allieue with US imperiali. Indeed, the foring of 'natial concerning adorned by S-f- Prendit G-A - povides a model A the poling of nationl reconendtin, welty al'it dor for wits all paties which • Spt I wdpde of remfits, regndler A this differner on polites & tacties. The econpring defure by Sf of neutrality & peare ave futhes front, it ideed futher port woe needed, that it is these political forces in the world who ave mort dedicated to idfdee for iples aul at the same time these forces mut active i toplo for peace & a non-mule writh. Waler, Sutkul - reent by-electa.