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Ladies and
Gentleman,
Yesterday we concluded the 6th International Conference of
Chief Justices of the World, Presiding over the concluding
session I had occasion to remark that our movement to win
the support of the World’s Judiciary for the Appeal on
behalf of the world’s two billion children and generations
yet unborn.” for a duly constituted World Parliament
empowered to children’s right to inherit a safe and healthy
ecology and protecting them from nuclear and eco threats and
international Terrorism” has grown stronger with each
succeeding Conference. The Honourable Chief Justices at the
concluding session agreed with the Convenor, Shri Jagdish
Gandhi to issue the Lucknow Declaration of December 2005
endorsing the Resolution dated 2nd August 2005 passed by the
Japanese Diet. (parliament) supporting the establishment of
a World Federation and urged national parliaments throughout
the world to pass similar resolutions for ensuring a safer
future for world’s children and generations yet unborn.
So delegates from Civil Societies here assembled have our
work cut out for us. Too long have we been discussing the
disastrous state of planet earth and its immediate
destruction through the proliferation of nuclear weapons,
environmental hazards, climate change, population explosion,
rapid spread of Cancer and Aids, Malnutrition, Terrorism and
a host of other problems. The public has by now been well
educated as to the consequences of the problems that now
confront them. They are clamouring to know what solutions we
have to offer. At
this plenary session I would wish if delegates can confine
their discussions to the solution placed before us in the
Lucknow Declaration of 2005 – the need to bring order out
the chaos created by so-called sovereign nations struggling
to achieve their own greedy ambitions, at the expense of our
common humanity.
The inexorable need of the hour as pointed out in the
Lucknow Declaration is that we should work for the
establishment of a duly constituted World Parliament
empowered to enact enforceable International Law. This leads
us to the need for a World Federation and a Democratic
Federal World Government.
At this Global Symposium let us address our minds to threes
objectives. Civil Society is increasingly becoming
disillusioned with the United Nations. The latest fiasco at
the September Conference of the United Nations has increased
this disillusionment. Much was promised and so little
achieved has put on the prospect of U.s. Reform. Attempts to
do away with the power of veto have proved futile. A Second
Chamber for the U.N. can in now way obviate the crippling
effect of the Veto Power embedded in the grasp of the Big
Five both individually and collectively. The U.S. Coloasus
has made it clear that it want is the U.N. amenable to its
wishes for a world begemony.
Therefore my advise to the assembled Global Symposium is to
give up pursuing the phantom of U.N. Reform. Shri Jagdish
Gandhi, the convenor of this symposium in a very considered
statement printed in the programme distributed to all
delegates has exposed his view in no uncertain terms: He
says: U.N. Charter
failed to devise ‘a common thread’
binding its member countries into one global
family. In the absence of such ‘a common thread’
U.N.O. has become an organization of ‘Disunited
Veto powers is causing fear and suspicion amongst
member countries who, for the sake of their survival,
and other weapons of mass destruction. The present
bring about world peace, hence a new International
Political and Economic order is imminent with a
duly constituted World Parliament empowered to enact
enforceable World Law, without which humanity will
be doomed
Children of the world are the common denominators of
humanity, and this is the reason why all countries
have come together on this Global Peace Table
CMS laid out to ensure a safe future for world’s
two billion children and generations yet-to-be-born
and banish scourge of wars for ever”.
I commend this statement of Shri Jagdish. To use it as it as
a …..line would obviate much redundant discussion. It will
….. us more time to get down to basics.
How can we bring about the new International Political and
Economic Order? How can the World Parliament be brought into
being? How can enforceable International law be made a sine
qua non of agreements between the countries of the world? In
what ways can the peoples of the world join in establishing
a Democratic Federal World Government through a Constitution
for the Federation of Earth?
I believe, fellow delegates, that if the Global Symposium
address their minds to these questions we would be nearer to
our hearts’ desire ——— an ordered, peaceful and prosperous
world. An excellent book “World Federation Now. Tomorrow is
too late” by Dr. Eroll Harris is just out of the press in
time for the 6th International Conference of Chief Justices
and the Global Symposium. No doubt some of you will have
your own biews as to how to reach the goal of a new
International, Political and Economic Order; Dr. Harris’s
book is timely reading. It unfolds an excellent road map.
The World Consititution and Parliament Association of which
I am International President, comment this bookfor your
careful consideration.
Thank you for giving me a patient hearing and may our
subsequent deliberations be crowned with success. |
