[Fis] You may help to give the UN a chance to redeem itself.=

...its RESCUE from the deplorable situation it was left by the
unilateral arrogance of US and UK authorities, encouraged by the
unacceptable weakness of its Security Council, IS DEFINITELY
INDISPENSABLE in order to impede the world wide crisis to speed up
through the justification of warfare (genocide) for liberation.

...its RECOVERY through the General Assembly may still confirm the
validity of its purposes: 1) to maintain international peace and
security ; 2) to develop friendly relations among nations based on
respect for the principle of equal rights and self determination of
peoples; 3) to promote and encourage respect for human rights and for
fundamental freedoms for all humans without distinction as to race,
sex, language, or religion

...its REVIVAL will allow researchers, experts and scholars to
realize why the purposes of science, technology, education, trade,..
are to create, maintain and improve humanitarian circumstances that
may increase the survival chances of our species, nature and Gaia
instead of being oriented to unfair competition that culminates in
warfare.

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>9 Apr 2003
>To: Partnership Informatics & Participation <pip-l@undp.org>
>Subject: [pip] Unite for Peace:
>
>Support request for General Assembly meeting of UNO
>
>on Iraq
>
>
>From: Robert Pollard <ecology2001@mindspring.com>
>Organization: Information Habitat <http://habitat.igc.org>
>
>
>Dear friends,
>
>Now that the League of Arab States has formally requested a meeting
>of the General Assembly on Iraq - see AP article below - *now* is
>the time to take action to support this request and to give the UN a
>chance to redeem itself.
>
>Please make an all-out effort to lobby the members of the General
>Committee of the General Assembly to approve a meeting of the
>General Assembly on Iraq, pursuant to the provisions of Uniting for
>Peace, Resolution 377 (V).
>
>The General Committee will meet on Friday, so time is of the
>essence. Contact information for members of the General Committee is
>included at the end of the message.
>
>After sending a fax or email in support of this initiative, please
>consider making a follow up phone call to the missions.
>
>For additional information on Uniting for Peace, please visit
>http://habitat.igc.org/ufp - note that the contact information
>for members of the general committee is available online at
>http://habitat.igc.org/ufp/gc.htm - phone, fax and email
>information for the New York Missions of all UN Member States
>is available at http://habitat.igc.org/ufp/missions.htm
>
>Please forward this message to your networks.
>
>Let's Unite for Peace now!
>
>Robert
>-=-=-
>Robert Pollard
>Information Ecologist
>Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
><http://habitat.igc.org>
><ecology2001@mindspring.com>
>
>-=-=-
>
>Arab nations formally request General Assembly meeting on Iraq
>
>Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
>
>Tuesday, April 8, 2003
>
>(04-08) 17:25 PDT United Nations (AP)
>
>Arab nations on Tuesday requested a U.N. General Assembly meeting on
>the war in Iraq, hoping to win approval for a resolution calling for
>a cease-fire.
>
>The assembly's General Committee will meet Friday morning to
>consider the request, assembly spokesman Richard Sydenham said.
>
>At least 15 of the committee's 28 members must approve the meeting
>and then, the full 191-member General Assembly must vote to add it
>to the assembly's agenda.
>
>Yemen's U.N. Ambassador Abdullah Alsaidi, the Arab Group's chairman
>who made the request, said the group will seek a "very mild"
>resolution.
>
>"It will ask for a cease-fire, respect for Iraqi sovereignty,
>territorial integrity," he said. "It will ask for the unity of Iraq."
>
>U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte said last Wednesday that Washington
>does not think it is "either necessary or desirable to raise Iraq in
>the General Assembly, because the issue was discussed March 26-27 in
>the Security Council.
>
>But Yemen's Alsaidi said Monday that Arab nations want a General
>Assembly meeting, because "they discovered there was no possibility
>of a resolution" in the Security Council, where the United States
>and its ally Britain have veto power.
>
>Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri said the Arab Group knows
>that nearly 50 countries in the U.S.-led coalition supporting the
>war will try to prevent a General Assembly resolution on Iraq.
>
>But he said Iraq was facing "the destruction of a whole country and
>the killing of several thousand people" and "we think the
>international community has to shoulder its responsibilities."
>
>There are no vetoes in the 191-nation General Assembly. But unlike
>the Security Council, its resolutions are not legally binding though
>they do reflect international opinion.
>
>-=-=-
>
>Contact Information for General Committee of the General Assembly
>
>Czech Republic
>H.E. Mr. Jan Kavan
>President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.535.8814 Fax: 1.212.772.0586
>czechrepublic@un.int
>
>Austria
>H.E. Mr. Gerhard Pfanzelter
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.949.1840 Fax: 1.212.953.1302
>austria@un.int
>
>Bahrain
>H.E. Mr. Tawfeeq Ahmed Khalil Almansoor
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.223.6200 Fax: 1.212.319.0687
>bahrain@un.int
>
>Barbados
>H.E. Ms. June Clarke
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.867.8431-8435 Fax: 1.212.986.1030
>barbados@un.int
>
>Chad
>H.E. Mr. Koumtog Laotegguelnodji
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.986.0980 Fax: 1.212.986.0152
>chad@un.int
>
>China, People's Republic
>H.E. Mr. Wang Ying-Fan
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.655.6100 Fax: 1.212.634.7626
>chnun@undp.org, china@un.int
>
>Ecuador
>H.E. Mr. Luis Gallegos Chiriboga
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.935.1680 Fax: 1.212.935.1835
>ecuador@un.int
>
>Egypt
>H.E. Mr. Aboul Gheit
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.879.6300 Fax: 1.212.794.3874
>egypt@un.int
>
>Ethiopia
>H.E. Mr. Abdul Mejid Hussein
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.421.1830 Fax: 1.212.754.0360
>ethiopia@un.int
>
>France
>H.E. Mr. Jean-Marc de LA SABLIERE
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.308.5700 Fax: 1.212.421.6889
>france@un.int
>
>Gambia
>H.E. Mr. Crispin Grey-Johnson
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.949.6640 Fax: 1.212.808.4975
>gambia@un.int
>
>Indonesia
>H.E. Mr. Moch. Slamet Hidayat
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.972.8333 Fax: 1.212.972.9780
>ptri@indonesiamission-ny.org
>
>Kazakhstan, Republic of
>H.E. Ms. Dr. Madina B. Jarbussynova
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.230.1900 Fax: 1.212.230.1172
>kazakhstan@un.int
>
>Mexico
>H.E. Mr. Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.752.0220 Fax: 1.212.688.8862
>mexico@un.int
>
>Portugal
>H.E. Mr. GonÁalo Aires de Santa Clara Gomes
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.759.9444-9447 Fax: 1.212.355.1124
>portugal@un.int
>
>Qatar
>H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.486.9335/9336 Fax: 1.212.758.4952
>qatar@un.int
>
>Russian Federation
>H.E. Mr. Sergey Lavrov
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.861.4900 Fax: 1.212.628.0252
>rusun@un.int
>
>Swaziland
>H.E. Mr. Clifford Sibusiso Mamba
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.371.8910 Fax: 1.212.754.2755
>swaziland@un.int
>
>Togo
>H.E. Mr. Roland Yao Kpotsra
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.490.3455/3456 Fax: 1.212.983.6684
>togo@un.int
>
>United Kingdom of Great Britain
>H.E. Sir Jeremy Greenstock
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.745.9200 Fax: 1.212.745.9316
>uk@un.int
>
>United States of America
>H.E. Mr. John D. Negroponte
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.415.4000 1 212.415.4443
>usa@un.int
>
>Viet Nam
>H.E. Mr. Nguyen Thanh Chau
>Vice-President, General Assembly
>Tel: 1.212.644.0594 Fax: 1.212.644.5732
>vietnam@un.int
>
>Uganda, Republic of
>H.E. Mr. Matia Mulumba Semakula Kiwanuka
>Chairman, First Committee
>Tel: 1.212.949.0110/0113 Fax: 1.212.687.4517
>uganda@un.int
>
>Honduras
>H.E. Mr. Marco Antonio Suazo
>Chairman, Second Committee
>Tel: 1.212.752.3370/3371 Fax: 1.212.223.0498
>honduras@un.int
>
>Liechtenstein, Principality of
>H.E. Mr. Christian Wenaweser
>Chairman, Third Committee
>Tel: 1.212.599.0220 Fax: 1.212.599.0064
>liechtenstein@un.int
>
>South Africa
>H.E. Mr. Graham Maitland
>Chairman, Fourth Committee
>Tel: 1.212.213.5583 Fax: 1.212.692.2498
>southafrica@un.int
>
>Nepal, Kingdom of
>H.E. Mr. Murari Raj SHARMA
>Chairman, Fifth Committee
>Tel: 1.212.370.3988 Fax: 1.212.953.2038
>nepal@un.int
>
>Hungary
>H.E. Mr. Arpad PRANDLER
>Chairman, Sixth Committee
>Tel: 1.212.752.0209 Fax: 1.212.755.5395
>hungary@un.int
>
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