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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, dated October 1995, contains the proceedings of a conference on ethnic conflict held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored it. Academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials presented papers on ethnic and territorial conflict in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. They also discussed what these conflicts mean for US policy. The document contains no UFO material.
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C00123268 Today, we have 53 states in Europe; there were 32 in organs, the Trusteeship Council, has virtually nothing 1991.That is a major change. It is the largest change to do any longer. There is no reason why the Council in Europe since 1917 or 1648, depending on how you should not be transformed into a Human Rights Coun- look at it. It has been done largely without violence cil and be run by a high commissioner for human and largely within a relatively democratic context, and rights, who would have greatly expanded powers. it has been agreed to by those states. The United States has recognized those states: the Czech Repub- While very few nations are not guilty of some lic, Slovakia, the Baltic states, and the other states that excesses in regard to human rights, some are much have emerged from the former Soviet Union, as well worse than others, and those are the ones that have to as those from Yugoslavia. be tackled first. We need an agency with legitimacy to do that. So it is possible to reconcile the idea ofaccepting the concept of territorial integrity and that of peaceful The UN can do that. It will make mistakes to be sure. changes of borders. It is difficult, but I do not see any but we should get behind the UN and give it power to major intellectual pitfall. I think US policy has cer- address global problems. Global problems require glo- tainly evolved over the last two years on this quest. bal solutions. The UN ought to be the global instru- ment. 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 194
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