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send a message to the UN General Assembly



Dear friends

Why don't you  send a message to the UN General Assembly,showing
that the U.S. is acting against the sentiment of the  people of the
world in violation of the UN Charter. The International action center 
urged to send such message :-

Duha

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from:Brian Becker and Sara Flounders,
     co-coordinators  
     International Action Center-New York
     e-mail: iacenter@iacenter.org

The following message to the UN General Assembly was drafted by former 
U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the founder of the International
Action Center.  This letter can be the basis of an important
international campaign urging a resolution in the UN General Assembly.
 Such resolutions in the past have been an effective way of showing
that the U.S. is acting against the sentiment of the people of the
world in violation of the UN Charter.  We urge you to help to
circulate this letter and to encourage many countries to take this up
in the General Assembly. Brian Becker and Sara Flounders,
co-coordinators of the International Action Center

December 20, 1998


To The General Assembly Of The United Nations:


 The International Action Center Calls On The General Assembly Of The
 United Nations To Condemn The United States, Assisted By The United
 Kingdom, For Its Criminal Assault On Iraq, To Require Compensation
 For The Deaths, Injuries And Damages Inflicted, To Prohibit Any
 Further Assaults And To End Genocidal Economic Sanctions Against Poor
 And Powerless People.


The United Nations General Assembly must seize this moment to condemn
the U.S. missile attack and bombardment of Iraq, to prohibit any
further attacks, to compel compensation for deaths, injuries and
damages inflicted, to end the genocidal economic sanctions against
Iraq and to prohibit any future use of such sanctions.

Every member Nation of the U.N. must undertake to accomplish these
ends through the United Nations and independently.  Each nation has a
duty in law and to common decency to aid Iraq with food, medicines and
the means to rebuild its cities and society by condemning and ignoring
the sanctions and aiding its victims.

No nation on earth will be sovereign while the United States with its
overwhelming military capacity for destruction and its enormous
economic power to control the flow of foods, medicines, capital and
material necessities of life remains unrestrained from assaulting
chosen enemies and impoverishing their people.  Every nation and
especially every poor nation knows it may be next, and whether next,
or not, it will be coerced to act against its will and the well being
of its people by threats and actions of the United States.

Act now to stop the United States directly and to prevent the U.S.
from making NATO its private enforcer, by-passing the United Nations
and using rich and powerful caucasian, Christian North Atlantic,
high-tech military power against the masses of the poor in Asia,
Africa, Europe and Latin America.

Never forget how a single missile launch against the Sudan, labeled a
"viper's nest of terrorists" by the U.S., destroyed more than half its
pharmaceutical production, the Al Shifa plant at Khartoum, including
60-90% of all medicines available to treat the seven highest causes of
death.  Such selective targeting can send a whole continent toward
disease and death.

Sincerely,

Ramsey Clark



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