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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, numbered RTT 95-10039 and dated October 1995, presents the proceedings of a conference held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored the conference. In it, academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials examined ethnic conflict by region, covering Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. The report also discusses what these conflicts mean for US policy. It does not deal with UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
“The Advance”17 pages
Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268 Today, we have 53 states in Europe; there were 32 in 1991. That is a major change. It is the largest change in Europe since 1917 or 1648, depending on how you look at it. It has been done largely without violence and largely within a relatively democratic context, and it has been agreed to by those states. The United States has recognized those states: the Czech Repub- lic, Slovakia, the Baltic states, and the other states that have emerged from the former Soviet Union, as well as those from Yugoslavia. So it is possible to reconcile the idea ofaccepting the concept of territorial integrity and that of peaceful changes of borders. It is difficult, but I do not see any major intellectual pitfall. I think US policy has cer- tainly evolved over the last two years on this quest. DR. SCHWARTZBERG: One of the things that I think we can do is to try to empower the only interna- tional organization that ought to have universal legiti- macy—the United Nations. One of the UN’s major organs, the Trusteeship Council, has virtually nothing to do any longer. There is no reason why the Council should not be transformed into a Human Rights Coun- cil and be run by a high commissioner for human rights, who would have greatly expanded powers. While very fewnations are not guilty of some excesses in regard to human rights, some are much worse than others, and those are the ones that have to be tackled first. We need an agency with legitimacy to do that. The UN can do that. It will make mistakes to be sure, but we should get behind the UN and give it power to address global problems. Global problems require glo- bal solutions. The UN ought to be the global instru- rnent. 194 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.