The World - News from Oct. 7, 1986
Argentina’s President Raul Alfonsin opened the 16th Inter-Parliamentary Union conference by urging delegates to identify concrete steps that can be taken to head off nuclear war. Such steps “could lead to negotiations on the adoption of international obligations in the field of disarmament,” Alfonsin told nearly 800 delegates from 103 nations, meeting in Buenos Aires. Besides disarmament, agenda items for the six-day conference include the worsening trade terms for Third World nations, apartheid in South Africa and the Anglo-Argentine dispute over the Falkland Islands.
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