A/46/PV.11 General Assembly

One representative wishes to speak in %x%rcis% of the right of reply. MaI I remind members that, in accordance uith General Assembly decision 341401, statements in exercise of the right of reply are limited to 10 minutes for the first intervention a8d to 5 minutes for the second and should be made by delegations from their seats. I call on tbe representative of France. MrkOfW.kDAU de la SADLIEW (France) (int%rpr%tation from French}: The Minister of Education of Papua Dew Guinea criticised my country in regard to the underground nuclear testing we are undertaking. I Shall not conment on the outrageous expressions he used, but I should like to recall that the underground testing that Prance is undertaking in its territory in Polynesia does not do any barn to the interests of the Staies of the region or to the healtb of the populations living there , nor Uoee it harm the environmaaL as several international and national commissions have quite smply shown in their on-site studies. The most recent mission to make a comparative study of radioactivity was carried out ia March 1991 by three different laboratories coacorsitantly, one of them being from the International Atomic Energy Agency. Those results will soon be published in this Organisation. I should like to conclude by adding that the studies carried out by that mission are available to all, just as are the seporta published every ye&r by my country on the monitoring of radioactivity in the region. The m-tiao rose at 6.40 .