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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 22. Juli
2006 / Time Line July 22, 2006
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21. Juli 2006, 23. Juli 2006
07/22/2006
INTERNATIONAL PEACE BUREAU CALLS FOR RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF
DIPLOMATS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
By: Cora Weiss, IPB President,
We cannot bear to watch the continuous carnage. We cannot bear to
hear the screams of children. We cannot bear to stand by as the
United Nations and the G 8 abrogate their responsibilities to stop
a war that should never have been started.
We call for a rapid deployment of diplomats from the Quartet, (US,
UN, Russia and EU).
To talk with all parties involved in Iran, Syria, Israel,
Palestine, and Lebanon and the region.
We call for a cease-fire and simultaneous exchange of prisoners
including the three soldiers initially captured by Hamas and the
Hizbollah. Above all, we call for an end to the occupation of
Palestine and the establishment of two sovereign states, Israel and
Palestine, living side by side in mutual respect. We call for the
withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq. We call for the force of
law, not the law of force.
Who will teach the powerful that overwhelming force can only result
in overwhelming catastrophe?
War is not a solution. As long as people are dominated, humiliated,
marginalized, kept in poverty, excluded because of their religion,
color, identity or gender we will see violence and revenge. As long
as the world spends a trillion dollars a year on weapons and war
and pathetic sums on health, education and the elimination of
poverty, we will continue to witness violence. We know too much
about root causes of violence, about what makes for peace, to still
resort to old destructive violent forms of behavior.
We appreciate the courage of so many journalists who have brought
the sights and sounds of the brutality from Israel, Gaza, Lebanon
and Iraq to our living rooms. Our tears flow with those of the
parents without children, the children without parents, the dying,
wounded and traumatized. How will this end? How will the healing
begin? Who will rebuild homes, communities, factories and bridges?
Who will start schools that promote reconciliation and prevent
further violence?
Let us see courage, compassion, vision and action in the diplomats
who now hold the future in their hands. Civil society has for years
made efforts to bring people together, to sow the seeds of peace.
We care deeply about leaving a safe world for our children and
grandchildren. We say, STOP the fighting, START the talking.
07/22/2006
Global Reparations and Repatriation Conference
The Global Reparations and Repatriation Conference taking place in
Ghana from July 22 -- August 2nd, 2006.
http://www.ncobra-intl-affairs.org/conference_schedule2.html
The theme of this conference is "Create the Future: Transformation,
Reconciliation, Repatriation and Reparations." The conference will
explore these four aspects of the Reparations Movement in specific
workshops.
07/22/2006
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