The International Conference on Population in Mexico City last August operated on two quite different planes, each with its own agenda and dynamics. The first involved substantive matters, all in one way or another broadly related to the twin subjects of population and economic-development policies and their interrelationship. The second was purely political.
In theory, conferences sponsored by specialized agencies of the UN are supposed to deal with problems of universal concern, problems that transcend politics. But in practice, as with the Mexico City conference, they tend to have a second, unstated agenda forced upon them by the Soviet Union and various Third World factions in pursuit of highly political and often inflammatory objectives.
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