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développement de tous les peuples? Avec le prix de toutes ces armes on pourrait faire la paix de l'éducation et de la confiance de l'homme dans l'homme dans les continents.

De fait, nous tous, même les nations démocratiques, vivons sous un concept totalitaire: ce sont les armements qui s'imposent et eux seuls empêchent la guerre universelle qui serait aussi la domination d'un seul sur tous les autres. Le totalitarisme parfait.

La paix est indivisible et dans les parlements, dans toutes les commissions, dans l'action de tous les parlementaires, ce doit être la paix entre les hommes que nous devons chercher. La paix, c'est-à-dire, l'égalité de droits entre tous les hommes et dans tous les pays, quel que soit la race, la couleur, la religion.

G. Rcsfíígues. Pcrtuga) (point 6)

Mr. Chairman, Dear Colleagues: In my country, Portugal, like in many other countries, we are strongly upset with the amount of our external debt, which in the last decade suffered a big increase. Our country is facing the world recession and simultaneously trying to manage its economy, its trade balance and to honour their external compromises.

However, we are hearing with accrued frequency some countries proclaiming that the ony way to solve the problems of less developed countries' enormous external debts is purely to cease payments, not paying capital and interest rates.

These proposals which are based on real economic features have actual political motivations and try to achieve clear political aims.

We dont't agree with such a way to solve this problem. Really, in full freedom and according with fre-emarket economic rules, a continuous flow of funds have been mutua ted, at least in theory, for development purposes and also for financing trade balance deficits, that were supposed to be conjunturals.

We can realize why the structural developing goals lied to such important external loans were not a-chieved: in many cases the funds mutuated were diversed to quite different targets they were supposed to be used; in many cases, too, the loans were not accompanied by the necessary technology transfer and training, bases of the projects sucess.

Bearing in mind these and other reasons for the unsucceassful achievement of the forecasted objectives, we realize that a fair solution for both sides, debtors and creditors, includes the external debt restructuration by bilateral négociations, and the allowance of new financial and technical help, in accordance with the free economy rules, to support real and correct development projects on the debtors countries.

These projects must be carefully chosen, evaluated under their technical, economical and financial worth and closely followed up in order to assure both parts that the money is spent according and for the aims foreseen.

We believe that the problems on developing countries can only be solved with strong efforts to change the framework of their basic industrial structure in order to create actual development, in order to produce wealth, which will be shared, first place, to the one that have produced it directly and in second place to honour the state external liabilities which represent

the efforts, the work and the support of citizens of many other countries.

We believe that the external debts shall be honoured with the results of developing actions that before have produced internal benefits.

We realize that a stop payments solution would cause a chain reaction not only on developed countries but also, by the «boomerang effeot», on the debtors countries themselves.

That would just endanger all world economic system and at last even democracy and freedom, values on which we strongly believe and shall struggle to maintain forever.

We consider that IPU resolution of Lome\ that takes in account the very interests involved is a good approach to find an acceptable solution to this problem: that bother a large part of the world's population This IPU's 74th meeting is the adequate place U reach a general agreement based on Lome's resolution

The Portuguese parliamentaries will contribute tc reach acceptable solutions on this matter and will b< very glad if, all of us, could find them quickly, pre venting more damage on the international economic relationship.

Guido Rodrigues.

Résultats de la session de septembre 1S85 de l'Union interparlementaire

Ottawa (Canada), 2-7 septembre 1985

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

A. Cérémonie inaugurale. • B. Participation.

C. 198* session du Comité exécutif.

D. 137° session du Conseil interparlementaire:

1. Ordre du jour.

2. État des membres.

3. Élections et nominations.

4. Rapports d'activités.

5. Programme et budget pour 1986.

6. 75° Conférence interparlementaire.

7. Prochaines réunions interparlementaires.

8. Amendement du Statut et Règlement du personn

9. Résultats du Symposium interparlementaire sur désarmement relatif aux armes classiques.

10. Suites de la résolution relative à l'égalité entre I hommes et les femmes.

11. Droits de l'homme des parlementaires.

E. 74* Conférence interparlementaire:

t. Décisions relatives aux demandes d'inscription de poi supplémentaires.

2. Amendement à l'article 22 (/) des Statuts.

3. Débats et décisions de la Conférence relatifs s thèmes d'étude inscrits à son ordre du jour.

4. Élections au Comité exécutif.

5. Commémoration du 40* anniversaire des Nations Uni

F. Réunions des Commisions:

II' Commission (Commission pour les questions pai ment aires, juridiques et des droits de l'homme).

E D E" Commission (Comission pour les questions écono ques. sociales, culturelles et de l'environnement).

3V Commission (Comission pour les territoires non a\ nomes et les questions ethniques).

Annexes

1. État des membres de l'Union au 2 septembre 1< 11. Budget de l'Union pour 1986.