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| UN will die “moral death” if it gives in to US |
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| jaihoon |
| 02/18/03 at 04:06:59 |
| UN will die “moral death” if it gives in to US on Iraq: Vajpayee (AFP) 18 February 2003 NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Tuesday reiterated his opposition to a US-led war against Iraq, warning that the United Nations could “die a moral death” if it succumbs to pressure from Washington. “The prime minister said that the international situation is worsening (and) there is a possibility of war in Iraq,” Vajpayee’s BJP party spokesman Vijay Kumar Malhotra quoted the premier as telling MPs at a parliamentary party meet in the Indian capital. “We don’t want war, a majority of nations also don’t want war, but they are unable to say so,” Malhotra quoted Vajpayee as saying. “Also there is fear that the United Nations organisation becomes ineffective and dies a moral death if it takes any step under US pressure,” Vajpayee adde`. His comments came days after Defence Minister George Fernandes said it would be “inconceivable” for the United States to attack Iraq. “India cannot support (the US’s present position on Iraq). How can India support?” Fernandes said after UN Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix told the Security Council on Friday there had been improved cooperation by Iraq, although it had still not accounted for its weapons of mass destruction. India has already spoken out against any unilateral US attack on Iraq but urged Baghdad to come clean on weapons of mass destruction. The country is heavily dependent on oil and workers’ remittances from the Gulf. More than 10,000 people protested on Saturday around India against a US war on Iraq, a meagre number compared with many demonstrations around the world. |
| Re: UN will die “moral death” if it gives in to US |
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| Abu_Atheek |
| 02/18/03 at 05:56:42 |
| [slm] [quote]UN will die “moral death” ....[/quote] It has already died "morally" and "orally" >:( |
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