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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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html