BrettsFriends : Message: FW: call for UN action to avert or halt war

If you haven't done this yet, please consider at least signing the petition that you get to with the link below. that is very simple and takes only a few minutes. i did sent a copy of a letter to everyone on the list below and that took just a few moments more.

thanks,

Pat

Dear Friends,

If you have not yet received this message about calling on the General Assembly to act now-- please consider this suggestion outlined below. As you continue to breathe and smile with our beautiful small world.

I want to pass along to you another serious proposal for action by the UN that could avert a war or stop the war once it has started. There is a provision in the UN charter for the General Assembly to take action to stop military assaults or occupations, in the event the Security Council is deadlocked. This has been invoked ten times since 1950; the first two times by the US to stop the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary, and Britain and France's military campaign at the Suez Canal. It has been used on these and 8 other occasions to halt a military attack, and allow the UN to address a crisis that threatens peace.

An international movement has been building to use this well-established method to halt this war. This is all explained in full detail at the following web site: (please be sure to click "english, or anglais" in the box at top right, otherwise the default language is French).

1. First, go to http://uniting.free.fr/petition.htm and sign the on-line
petition. There are links to articles about the historical uses of this approach, and the current plan in today's context.

2. Beyond the petition, if you are in favor of this plan, please send a brief note
(sample below)
to the *long* list of diplomats, UN officials email addresses at
bottom. (You may be able to easily copy this list into your email program allowing you to send your note to all these addresses in one step) The list includes Nelson Mandela, President Mbecki of SA, EU ,Greece
as EU president, and G77 officials, as well as UN Ambassadors for most
countries. We just need 1 of these people to act for their country at
the UN to call for the UN General Assembly to sit with resolution 377.

Let's try this.

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Subject: EMERGENCY SESSION : UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY : UNITING FOR PEACE
Dear Distinguished Ambassador or Diplomat,

Thank you for your efforts to promote and sustain world peace
and order through the United Nations.

The Security Council is not in agreement as to how to proceed in the matter of disarming Iraq. The US and Britain have stated they intend to launch a military attack against Iraq regardless of the action of the Security Council.

I am writing to ask that in the current situation, you take a
further step, that is, for your country to call for an
emergency session of the General Assembly under the "Uniting for Peace"
mechanism. RESOLUTION 377 v.; 7 October 1950.

This step might be able to prevent a reckless war. In any case, it would make a formal declaration that the member nations of the UN oppose any military attack on Iraq by the US and Britain.

People around the world are lifting our voices against this dangerous war. Please take this step available to you as a UN member to help protect the peoples of the world.

I know you are working so hard to avoid war and also to maintain the
integrity of the United Nations. A majority of people and nations in
the world support you in this. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration
of this urgent call.

Sincerely,
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