| | Betreff: Invoke UN Security Council Resolution 377
Vorlage zur Erwirkung der 'Uniting for Peace'-Resolution an die ständigen UN-Vertretungen:
Deutschland, contact@germany-un.org
Österreich, austria@un.int
Schweiz, Vertretung-UN@nyc.rep.admin.ch
Quellen:
Yoko Kitazawa / Japan Network on Debt & Poverty, Co-chair
kitazawa@jca.apc.org, www.jca.apc.org/~kitazawa/index.htm
Jeremy Brecher, jbrecher@igc.org
Dear Ambassador,
As the representative of a nation sitting on the UN Security Council, I request that you ask the General Assembly to invoke the Uniting for Peace Resolution (UN Resolution 377), which empowers the General
Assembly to act to keep or restore the peace when the Security Council, due to lack of agreement among the permanent members, is not able to do so.
The UN has now reached that stage. If there is a veto in the Security Council today, the issue may and should be sent to the GA. An immediate vote by the General Assembly is necessary in order to prevent a war of aggression from being waged against Iraq.
Within 24 hours of a stalemate in the Security Council, the General Assembly can meet to consider the matter. This can happen if seven members of the Security Council or 50% of the General Assembly requests an emergency meeting for that purpose. The General Assembly can recommend collective measures, including the use of armed force to 'maintain or restore international peace and security. The Uniting for Peace Resolution has been used ten times since 1950.
The General Assembly should vote to prohibit an invasion of Iraq and immediately send peacekeepers to station themselves in the demilitarized zone between Kuwait and Iraq. Mandatory trade sanctions on all goods and all air traffic to and from the US should be required of all members of the UN if the US were to stage an attack in violation of the General Assembly's resolution.
I believe that such action would be supported by the vast majority of the citizens of all UN member nations. Please, the fate of the world is in your hands.
Yours sincerely,
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