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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. |
