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UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title 1 06 Date 19/06/2006 Time 4:22:20 PM S-0972-OD11-03-00001 Expanded Number S-0972-0011 -03-00001 Title |tems-in-Pio Manzu International Research Centre Date Created 18/05/1979 Record Type Archival Item Container S-0972-0011: External Relations - organizations Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit File: ^^ ;xRef: Message sent 30 Sept.'81 -MJS/atJc 3302 5078 EOSG UNATIONS : GENEVA (SWITZERLAND) ^:-^RlM KOHAW.. FURTHER TO YOUR CABLE OF 22 SEPTEMBER, FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF SECGEN MESSAGE TO THE INTERNATIONAL STUDY DAYS OF THE PIO MANZU INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE; (Cable editor please insert attached text) A.Rohanf Director, EOSG MESSAGE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL STUDY DAYS OF THE PIO MANZO INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE, RIMINI, 4-6 OCTOBER 1981 I am pleased to extend my greetings to the distinguished participants in the International Study Days of the Pio Manzu International Research Centre. The major themes which you have chosen are all most timely. The world is undergoing profound and irreversible v? changes in the economic sphere. The second industrial revolution, brought about by rapid advances in technology, is making an impact on patterns o'f economic activity which had endured for nearly a century. It is therefore of great importance that we should try to assess its consequences not only in high technology societies but also in other countries which are striving to achieve a similar level of development. In the field of energy, I hope that the programme of action recently adopted by the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy will have a central place in your deliberations. The Nairobi Conference made it clear that the energy transition from dependence on hydrocarbons to the utilization of new and renewable sources must be consistent with the effort to create an equitable international economic order. I trust that your discussions will focus on the obvious need for international co-operation in this sphere. - 2 - At present, with stagnation and extreme poverty persisting in large areas of the world, the global economic outlook offers few encouraging signs. Progress in the dialogue on international economic co-operation is distressingly slow, although the existing disparities between the industrialized and the developing countries contain seeds of tension, unrest and instability. Meetings such as yours can make a helpful contribution by clarifying the is'sues involved and promoting a better understanding of the common interest of all nations in establishing equitable economic relations. I send you my best wishes for rewarding and fruitful discussions. ^ o - q ROUTING SLIP FICHE DE TRANSMISSION TO: A: Room No* — No de bureau Extension -Postrf (A • Af^. 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TO THE INTERNATIONAL STUDY DAYS OF THE PIQ I-lMJSU IHTEBEATIQHAL RESEARCH CEKTRE1. RIMINI (ITALY) 4-6 October 1981 V ''), It is with great pleasure that I bring to this distinguished gathering the greetings of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dr. Kurt Waldheim, who has asked me to convey to you the following message: "In considering the first of the three major, themes which have been selected by the Pio Manzu Eesearch Centre for this Encounter: "Remedies for the world industrial crisis.' informatics as an alternative", we must all be aware that the western pattern of industrial society which • i has preserved its essential characteristics for nearly a century is under- going- profound and irreversible changes. Although the immediate effects of this second industrial revolution in which computers and automation play a leading role are already visible in certain sectors of the economy of the industrialized countries, the ultimate economic and social consequences are difficult to foresee;. Nevertheless, in this uncertain situation it is our duty to consider not only the inpact of the computer revolution on the high technology societies in which it is first introduced, but also the effect on others which are striving to achieve a similar level of .development. <*x. As regards the energy question, the United Nations Conference on New K^ and Renewable Sources of Energy, held in Nairobi in August this year, adopted a programme of action which I hope will have a central place in your dis cuss ions vra~^rt'"'^M^."T^ The programme emphasizes the inevitability of a transition from an energy economy based primarily on hydrocarbons to one which depends increasingly on new and renewable sources. ! The Nairobi Conference made it plain that an orderly and peaceful transition I of this.- nature must be consistent with' the efforts of governments to create i a new^intemational economic order, and that it must recognize the j ' • . ' ! I sovereignty of each country over its natural resources. Another timely ! '• i ' reminder from Nairobi -was that -while the demand for energy is increasing ! . i • ' : in the industrialized countries it is rising much more dramatically in the i developing world. i am sure that the need for international co-operation \ in resolving the difficult energy problems which lie ahead of the world v- community will be -uppermost iti your minds in the course of this encounter. Inter-regional co-operation, the third topic with which you are i , ; concerned, has been receiving increasing attention by a number of bodies i : of the United Nations system. When we consider the particular subject of co-operation between Europe, the Arab countries and Japan, we immediately i ask ourselves the question: how can these countries, with their combination of technological advancement, natural resources and material wealth, their own problems notwithstanding, expand and harmonize their efforts to promote the economic and social development of the less-favoured regions of the world? This is surely one of the most important elements of inter-regional co-operation. Stagnation and poverty persist in large areas of the world. and the international economic outlook offers few encouraging signs. At a time when there is more awareness than ever before of the need for develop- ment and for the world to put its economic house in order, we find distressingly slow progress in the international dialogue on economic co-operation. It is evident that even greater efforts axe needed on the part of the rich and industrialized countries to alleviate tMe situation which contains the seeds of tension and unrest and which represents a • fe - threat to vorld peace and stability.' Gatherings such aa yours will undoubtedlf y be helpful in-clarifyinf ,j<. g the issues involved and I wish you every success in your Deliberations," "Pio Manzu's ^international Research Centre on the habitat Research and activities promoting the development of interdependence between Europe and the Arab World '•':", ;/ Consultative organ of the % United Nations and UNIDO 11 November, 1981 iiic Committee President Luigi Preti Vice-President Abdulla Saudi Members Giulio Andreotti Guido Carli Silvio Ceccato Claude Cheysson Theo Crosby Luigi Deserti Dr. Tino Lipparini Samir Makdisi Kurt Waldheim Herbert Ohl Secretary-General, Rinaldo Ossola UNITED NATIONS Aurelio Peccei United Nations Plaza Kenzo Tange 747, Third Avenue - 35" Floor Jan Tinbergen Sergio Zavoli New York N.Y. 10017 - USA President Executive Board Ercole Checchi Secretary-General Gerardo Filiberto Dasi Advisory Committee Renato Altissimo Dear Secretary General, Luigi Coccioli At the end of the Vllth Session of the Pio Manzu International Francesco Forte Study Days, which this year debated the energy problems and Siro Lombardini more precisely those which are directly relevant to the serious Giannino Parravicini economic crisis of the industrial world, I should like to send Eugenio Peggio you my particularly warm thanks for having once again forward- ed a personal message for Ambassador Cottafavi to read at our Programme Commission meeting. Co-ordinator Vittorio Vaccari Our Scientific Committee is currently studying the programme Members Hatem Abou Said and various possibilities of the 1982 meeting (which we shall be Ivo Allodi forwarding to your Secretariat as soon as possible). Antonio Barrese In the meantime, we are pleased to send you the expression of Erwin K. Baumgarten Giorgio Bernini our renewed thanks and warm regards. Mario Colasurdo Yours sincerely, Gerhard Forster Luigi Gambarini Donatello Gianni Antoine Helal Luigi Preti Isao Hosoe President, Pio Manzu Centre Empedocle Maff ia Vice-President, Chamber of Deputies, Italian Parliament Pietro Marinetti Alberto Masoero Edmondo Mondi Giampaolo Pacini Siro P. Padolecchia Danilo Preti Mondini avi 15 July Dear Mr. 1 should like to thanlc you for your kind invitation to attend, the International Study Days to be held by the Pic Manatt International Research Centre in Riraini from 4 to 6 October 1981. You may be sura that I vary much appreciated your iysvit&tion to participate in this meeting devoted to the proraotion of international co- operation. Unfortunately, I shall ba prevented from joining you personally as the elates in question coincide with the opening woeks of the next session of tne United nations General JVsserably, when my presence is required in Hew York.