[mobglob-discuss] Fw: [antiwar-van] URGENT: Petition For Emergency General Assembly Session

[Paul Browning]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Kisby" <skisby at web.net>
To: <Recipient list suppressed>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:13 AM
Subject: [antiwar-van] URGENT: Petition For Emergency General Assembly
Session


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> Voice 4 Change proposes to send a petition to all Member Countries of the
United Nations in order to ask for a meeting of the UN General Assembly
within the next 24 hours to STOP THE WAR in Iraq. It is possible thanks to
UN Resolution 377 which dates from 1950 and has been enacted ten times.
>
> Go to http://www.voice4change.org/stories/mailUFP.asp to sign the
petition.
> See http://www.ccr-ny.org for more information.
>
> Please forward this letter to everyone, and all activist groups, that you
know.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob Wheeler
> Global Peoples Assembly Network
>
> Joan Russow
> Global Compliance Research Institute
> 1-250-598-0071
>
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>
> Dear U.N. Ambassador,
>
> U.S. President Bush appears determined to wage war on Iraq despite the
world's opposition, despite the progress of U.N. weapons inspectors, and
despite the likelihood that an unprovoked war will foment -- rather than
eliminate -- terrorism.  The Bush Administration has threatened to attack
Iraq even without the authority of the U.N. Security Council. This
constitutes both a threat to world peace and a violation of U.N. principals
and protocols.  Time is running short.  This disastrous war must be
prevented.
>
> Therefore, I urge you to support a "Uniting for Peace" resolution against
an unprovoked war against and invasion of Iraq.
>
> As you know, Resolution 377, adopted by the U.N. in 1950, was made for
situations precisely like this one.
>
> Uniting for Peace provides that if, because of the lack of unanimity of
the permanent members of the Security Council (France, China, Russia,
Britain, United States), the Council cannot maintain international peace
where there is a "threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of
aggression," the General Assembly "shall consider the matter immediately..."
The General Assembly can meet within 24 hours to consider such a matter, and
can recommend collective measures to U.N. members including the use of armed
forces to "maintain or restore international peace and security."
>
> Such a "Uniting for Peace" resolution could require that no military
action be taken against Iraq without the explicit authority of the Security
Council. It could mandate that the inspectors be permitted to complete their
task, and stipulate a reasonable deadline for the inspectors to complete
that task. It seems unlikely that the United States and Britain would ignore
such a measure. A vote by the majority of countries in the world,
particularly if it were almost unanimous, would make the unilateral rush to
war more difficult.
>
> Uniting for Peace can be invoked either by seven members of the Security
Council or by a majority of the members of the General Assembly.
>
> The U.N. Charter states to "save succeeding generations form the scourge
of war."
>
> Please act now.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Steve Kisby
> Vancouver, CANADA
>
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