[IMC-bristol] "Uniting for Peace" resolution

[Always Shariff]

Hi, 
here is another petition where everything has failed. I am not giving in. Aving
it sorrowfully 
Always 
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messages@dynamic.greenpeace.org To: alwaysshariff@yahoo.co.uk Subject:
Greenpeace: please take urgent action against war Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003
01:09:36 +0100 (CET) 

URGENT appeal to let the voices of the world be heard. 

The leaders of the most powerful nations on Earth have failed us. The Security
Council has failed us. The world stands on the brink of war. 

If ever there was a need for the United Nations to rise to the challenge it was
conceived to meet, now is that time. 

Through a little-used mechanism known as Resolution 377A, the "Uniting for
Peace" resolution, the General Assembly may be the last hope for disarming Iraq
peaceably and stopping the US war machine. 

You can write to your UN ambassador to support this resolution from here: 

http://act.greenpeace.org/aas/e?a=ufp&s=amb_s 

The Uniting for Peace resolution empowers the General Assembly to meet in
emergency session to address acts of aggression or a breach of the peace when
the Security Council has been unable to act. Its was first used to bring about
a cease-fire in the Suez crisis of 1950, forcing Britain and France to withdraw
from Egypt within a week, even after they had vetoed calls for a cease-fire in
the Security Council. It's been used ten times since then, most often at the
request of the United States. 

If you believe, as we do, that the very future of the world, and of the United
Nations, is being put at risk in the name of a pre-emptive war, please join the
call for the UN General Assembly to respond.  Ask that the Uniting for Peace
resolution be invoked, that the war on Iraq be condemned, and that peaceable
means of disarming Iraq be sought. 

The next hours may provide our last chance to change a dangerous course in
history.  The United Nations must not allow a world order based on
multilateralism to be replaced with one in which the mightiest and richest make
the rules. 

You can read more here: 

http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/news/details?item_id=179491 

and, again, you can write to your UN ambassador to support this resolution from
here: 

http://act.greenpeace.org/aas/e?a=ufp&s=amb_s 

Visit the No War website for more news: 

http://nowar.greenpeace.org 

Please take a few minutes to act now. 

VISIT THE CYBERCENTRE 

Please don't forget to visit the Greenpeace Cyberactivist Community at:
http://act.greenpeace.org

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