serve any of our interests. Similarly, neither legal instruments nor unilateral measures, including bans and distorted campaigns, will contribute to our cause of a clean and safe world. Environment and development are mutually reinforcing and interrelated. The issue of the protection of the global environment cannot be separated from the question of Antarctica. There should be a truly global environmental convention for the conservation and protection of Antarctica to benefit mankind. Antarctica presents the best opportunity for the international community to embark upon a comprehensive multilateral effort to secure a safe and clean environment for future generations. We should all support efforts to ban prospecting and mining in and around Antarctica and to ensure that all activities will be used exclusively for peaceful scientific research. Malaysia supports the idea of preserving Antarctica as a nature reserve or world park. All of us should be able to find common ground, through the United Nations, between those that are parties to the Antarctic Treaty system and those that are not. We cannot afford to lose that continent to our own narrow and selfish interests. Drug abuse and illicit trafficking is another very important issue which requires the appropriate response of the international community since it affects all countries. Member States agreed at the seventeenth special session, on drugs, last February that the United Nations should be provided with the necessary mandate and resources to increase international co-operation to combat the drug problem. Let us make that a reality. This problem is far too important for us to expect the United Nations to carry out its tasks in this field without its capability being strengthened. We should all support any proposal that can make the United Nations more efficient and effective in this area, including a restructuring of the 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the importance of international cooperation to protect the global environment, particularly in regards to Antarctica, and also touches on the topic of drug abuse and illicit trafficking. The focus is on finding common ground and strengthening international organizations to address these issues.

**Category**
Natural resources and environment, International relations