People's
Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) No. 08
February 23, 2003
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) |
Vol.
XXVII No. 08 February 23, 2003 |
Leaders,
Jurists
Appeal
For
Peace
IN
a
joint
appeal
issued
from
New
Delhi,
February
15,
former
president
of
India
Dr
K
R
Narayanan,
former
prime
minister
I
K
Gujral
and
some
noted
jurists
of
India
appealed
to
world
leaders
to
work
for
peace
and
help
avoid
a
war.
The
statement
deplored
many
world
leaders
for
their
talks
of
war
against
Iraq
in
a
very
casual
manner.
The
text
of
the
joint
statement,
also
signed
by
jurists
Fali
S
Nariman,
A
H
Desai
and
K
K
Venugopal,
follows.
Many
world
leaders
today
talk
so
casually
about
war
---
war
with
Iraq,
war
in
Iraq,
war
about
Iraq.
When
US
secretary
of
state
asks:
“How
much
longer
are
we
to
wait?”
the
answer,
must
surely
be
so
long
as
it
is
necessary
to
keep
the
world
out
of
a
full-scale
war.
It
was
to
prevent
wars
that
the
United
Nations
was
set
up
in
1945;
in
the
constitution
of
one
of
its
organs
---
UNESCO
---
there
is
a
poignant
sentence
that
reads,
“Wars
begin
in
the
minds
of
men
and
it
is
in
the
minds
of
men
(and
women)
that
the
defences
of
peace
must
be
constructed.”
If
world
leaders
keep
thinking
and
talking
only
about
war,
then
war
will
be
inevitable
---
with
disastrous
consequences
for
the
peoples
of
the
world:
lives
of
thousands
of
innocent
men,
women
and
children
will
be
lost
and
hundreds
of
thousands
more
will
be
rendered
homeless.
People
who
guide
the
destinies
of
the
world
must
work
together
to
preserve
peace,
by
helping
to
formulate
and
actively
propagate
all
steps
that
would
avoid
a
war.
How
that
is
best
achieved,
must
be
left
to
the
collective
wisdom
of
majority
of
the
members
of
the
UN
Security
Council
and
not
to
any
one
of
them,
howsoever
powerful.
(INN)
