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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS,
Washington, D.C., September 15, 1976.

Hon. THOMAS E. MORGAN,

Chairman, Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I am submitting herewith my report on my service as a member of the U.S. delegation to the 30th Session of the United Nations General Assembly and the Seventh Special Session of the General Assembly, having been appointed thereto by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The Seventh Special Session was held between September 1, and September 16, 1975 and the 30th Regular Session opened on September 16, and adjourned on December 17, 1975. Both sessions met at the United Nations in New York.

I hope that the report will be useful to the committee in its consideration of legislation relating to the United States participation in the United Nations.

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REPORT OF HON. DONALD M. FRASER, A CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE AT THE 1975 U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCTION

I welcomed my appointment as a U.S. Delegate to the 30th U.N. General Assembly as an opportunity to make a constructive contribution to the work of the United States in the United Nations. Service on the U.S. Delegation also offered the prospect of learning more, from the inside, about how the United States functions in the world organization. My work in New York as a delegate to the General Assembly and my work in Washington as chairman of the House Subcommittee on International Organizations, therefore, could be mutually beneficial: experience with United Nations issues in the House of Representatives provided some preparation for dealing with issues at the General Assembly and the learning experience there could prove useful in carrying out my responsibilities as subcommittee chairman back in Washington. After several months' reflection on my tenure at the General Assembly, I can say that I did learn a great deal but that efforts to make a constructive contribution were, by and large, frustrated.

I sought the chairmanship of the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the House International Relations Committee because of a conviction that international systems must be developed, maintained, and strengthened in order to deal effectively with global problems. The time is past when these problems could be settled by the actions of one nation or by accommodations among a small group of world powers. The arms race, environmental decay, enormous disparities between rich and poor, hunger, disease, rampant population growth, violations of fundamental human rights and disagreement over ocean use are examples of global issues requiring global solutions; effective resolution of such issues is beyond the capacity of traditional bilateral or balance-of-power diplomacy. Traditional diplomacy must be augmented with greater emphasis on broad multilateral diplomacy toward the objective of dependable reliance on widely accepted international systems to deal with these issues. The United Nations family does have institutions for these purposes and although they are plagued with problems and should not necessarily be the only multilateral forums for dealing with the problems, the United States is committed to work for the goals embraced by these institutions. Successful multilateral diplomacy can no longer be regarded merely as a desirable secondary priority; it has become absolutely necessary.

But the climate for successful multilateral diplomacy is far from hospitable. Many countries, including the United States at times, are guilty of politicizing otherwise nonpolitical issues. Frequently, bloc

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