Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet elméleti-politikai folyóirata - 1987 (14. évfolyam)

1987 / 1. szám - A tanulmányok orosz és angol nyelvű tartalmi kivonata

Schmidt, president of the council for the time being.

The secretariat of the council has built up an effective organisation to work out and propagate proposals for action. A so-called Policy Board and a Communications Committee were formed of internationally acknowledged politicians and mass-media experts, respectively.

The proposals elaborated are submitted by delegations consisting of the council’s members, or by members themselves, to the decision—makers in power in the major capitalist, socialist and developing countries, as well as to the influential leaders of international organisations, at the same time informing the press and the other mass media.

The council surveys the results of its activity at plenary session once a year; when required, it makes additional decisions to modify its former proposals, to make their propagation more effective, and, eventually, it marks out new fields of activity.

Summing up all the four plenary sessions held until now by the InterAction Council one can come to the conclusion that the recently retired politicians— apart from a few really new and concrete proposals for action—did not but predominantly repeat those anxieties and ideas for solution which are well-known to persons and governments currently ;n power. This is understandable since these troubles are still existing and without their elimination it is impossible to go forward, and in lack of quick action the aggravating problems are going to threaten our very existence.

The members of the IAC themselves are obviously unable to solve these problems. In the course of their activity they wish to refrain from intervention in the work of responsible governments in power, but then they are free from domestic infighting, foreign political considerations as well as the direct responsibility of governance, these statesmen with international reputation consider it to be their important task to draw the attention of those governing at present and that of public opinion to some exemplary, concrete proposals or, if you like, wise advice.

The results of the InterAction Council show that its works and “collective wisdom“ have some influence to bear on the thinking of the world’s responsible public bodies. The well-organized structure is far from fully utilized as yet.

Magdolna Nagy Tóth:

Change and continuity in the non-aligned movement (On the summit conference of non-aligned countries at Harare)

The international conditions for the activity of the non-aligned, the atmosphere of the international policy and the world economic situation have not improved in the past years. The negative effects of international tension have directly been experienced by the countries of the developing world also through the manifestation of the American strategy prevailing since the beginning of this decade. This policy was added new elements and became more aggressive. On the one hand this is manifest in the American behaviour: the USA regards the conflicts in the Third World as part of East—West confrontation and strives to exert pressure on the Soviet Union through them, too. This aim is served by the “strategy of low intensity conflicts” and the “fight against terrorism”: on the basis of these the Reagan Administration has got from the ideological representation of the American ideals to undisguised military intervention. On the other hand, this administration rigidly refuses the proposals of the developing countries for the restructuring of the world economic system and the creation of mechanisms settling interests in a global framework. This attitude constitutes an organic part of the American global strategy and the goal of the United States is to secure acceptance of the principles of American external economic policy.

On their 8th summit conference at Harare the non-aligned countries endeavoured to halt and turn back the dangerous tendencies in international politics and the world economy. Accordingly the non-aligned movement considers the preservation of peace, promotion of disarmament, the reduction of international tension, the elimination of aggressions and conflicts, the encouragement of just and peaceful solutions for international problems to be its main task in the future, too. Now, in the middle of the eighties, the stress in the activity of non- aligned countries is on the promotion of the initiatives serving disarmament and strengthening security. For the first time in the history of the movement they made an open distinction—mentioning by name—between the disarmament policies of the two great powers, the Soviet Union and the United States, backing the Soviet proposal for the total elimination of nuXIII