From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 07 Sep 92 12:42 PDT
Subject: NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT: RICH NATIONS HI
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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT: RICH NATIONS HI

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Title: NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT: RICH NATIONS HIT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPHASIS

jakarta, sep 1 (ips/ramon isberto) -- rich countries have come
under sharp criticism at the summit here of the non-aligned
movement (nam) for tying human rights, defence spending and other
conditions to development aid.

indonesian president suharto, opening the summit tuesday, said nam
''should take a firm stand against ... this form of
unilateralism''.

delegates said there was wide support among 108 nam member states
to suharto's views.

many third world governments have long complained that western
governments and international human rights groups have judged
their rights record on the basis of civil and political rights of
individuals disregarding economic and social rights of
communities.

they accuse the groups of using western yardsticks to judge human
rights and ignoring differences in culture, history and stage of
political and economic development.

at the nam opening in his capital, suharto called on developing
countries to prepare for the united nations conference on human
rights in 1993 as well as a population meet in 1995.

''it is extremely important that the stand of developing countries
on these issues are vigorously presented and not pre- empted by
incompatible resolutions,'' suharto said.

since the end of the cold war western donors and multilaterlal aid
agencies have become more aggressive in attaching human rights,
defence spending, and other conditionalities on aid and loans.

the european community (ec) has been the most vocal and has
regularly linked a country's human rights and environmental tack
record with official aid.

efforts to finalise an agreement between the ec and the
association of south-east asian nations (asean) have stalled due
to portuguese opposition. lisbon is citing the massacre by
indonesian soldiers on its former enclave of east timor last
year.

even financial institutions like the world bank and the
international monetary fund (imf) have been talking of paring down
aid to countries that fail to cut excessive defence spending.

south asian counties like india and pakistan -- with their huge
poverty problems and massive military budgets -- feel most
threatened by such talk. (end/ips/ri/kd/92)

non-aligned summit: rich nations hit for human rights emphasis

jakarta, sep 1 (ips/ramon isberto) -- rich countries have come
under sharp criticism at the summit here of the non-aligned
movement (nam) for tying human rights, defence spending and other
conditions to development aid.

indonesian president suharto, opening the summit tuesday, said nam
''should take a firm stand against ... this form of
unilateralism''.

delegates said there was wide support among 108 nam member states
to suharto's views.

many third world governments have long complained that western
governments and international human rights groups have judged
their rights record on the basis of civil and political rights of
individuals disregarding economic and social rights of
communities.

they accuse the groups of using western yardsticks to judge human
rights and ignoring differences in culture, history and stage of
political and economic development.

at the nam opening in his capital, suharto called on developing
countries to prepare for the united nations conference on human
rights in 1993 as well as a population meet in 1995.

''it is extremely important that the stand of developing countries
on these issues are vigorously presented and not pre- empted by
incompatible resolutions,'' suharto said.

since the end of the cold war western donors and multilaterlal aid
agencies have become more aggressive in attaching human rights,
defence spending, and other conditionalities on aid and loans.

the european community (ec) has been the most vocal and has
regularly linked a country's human rights and environmental tack
record with official aid.

efforts to finalise an agreement between the ec and the
association of south-east asian nations (asean) have stalled due
to portuguese opposition. lisbon is citing the massacre by
indonesian soldiers on its former enclave of east timor last
year.

even financial institutions like the world bank and the
international monetary fund (imf) have been talking of paring down
aid to countries that fail to cut excessive defence spending.

south asian counties like india and pakistan -- with their huge
poverty problems and massive military budgets -- feel most
threatened by such talk. (end/ips/ri/kd/92)

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