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...ECOLOGY
AND ENVIRONMENT CANNOT BE SEPARATED BY NATIONAL BOUNDARIES
Since ecology and environment cannot be separated by
national boundaries, we need to have an ‘Enforceable
International Law’ which is applicable to, and
binding on, all the countries and peoples of the world
in order to ensure that coming generations inherit a
safe and healthy ecology and a peaceful world. Children
are the most powerful common denominator in any country
and in the world and their cause is the most important.
All need to come together to the ‘Peace Table’
in the right frame of mind to reach a consensus on the
necessary agreements for ensuring a peaceful world.
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MR JAGDISH GANDHI WROTE TO THE
UN
The letter Mr Gandhi wrote to the UN
regarding formation of a World Government for safeguarding
the future of world’s children is given below
and the message received from the Secretary-General
is given in the right hand column. CMS students collected
signatures on nearly 1,00,000 such letters which were
sent to the UN office in New York
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RULE OF LAW IN
THE WORLD IS THE NEED OF THE HOUR
The hallmark of modern civilization is the rule
of law. The world over, national societies and
communities are governed by written rules and
regulations which are enforced and applied to
all, without favour or prejudice. This is as
true for village and town councils and municipal
corporations as for provincial and national
governments. However, it is yet to become true
for the international community of nations,
where the decisions of the UN or its organs
like the General Assembly or the Security Council
are not mandatory and countries may or may not
abide by these.
UN IS INEFFECTIVE
IN PRESERVING WORLD UNITY AND PEACE
Like its unmourned predecessor—the League
of Nations — the United Nations has also
failed to fulfil the objectives for which it
was formed. In the five and a half decades of
its existence, the UN has seen more people die
in numerous wars all over the world than had
died in both the World Wars combined. The UN
also saw the nuclear countries build up massive
stockpiles of nuclear weapons, said to be over
36,000 warheads strong and over 80 countries
have stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.
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a silent spectator to all this and more. In its half a
century of existence, the UN has merely watched as three-fourths
of the earth’s tropical forest cover has disappeared.
Even though the UN has many achievements to its credit,
in the ultimate analysis, it has fallen far short of the
expectations of its founding fathers. The basic need of
a civilized society is peaceful and safe future for its
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IDEA
OF A WORLD EXECUTIVE IS NOT NEW
In order to foster respect for International
Law, we first need to have ‘International
Law’ enacted by a duly constituted
law-making body like a World Parliament which
alone can have the authority to enact ‘International
Law’ that can be equally applicable to
all the peoples and countries of the world.
It is also necessary to have a world executive,
that is, a World Government to enforce such
a law. It may be pointed out here that many
great leaders and thinkers of the 20th Century,
Albert Einstein, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Winston
Churchill, Peter Ustinov, Robert Muller, Emery
Reeves and Sri Aurobindo have supported the
concept of a World Government.
MR GANDHI’S
LETTER TO THE UNITED NATIONS DATED 1ST SEPTEMBER,
1999
It was in this setting that the CMS students
collected nearly one hundred thousand signatures
in the year 1999, on an appeal to Dr
Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United
Nations, requesting him to initiate
efforts to form a World Government free of veto
powers which alone can eliminate the dangers
of a nuclear holocaust and ensure the conservation
of ecology and environment on a global scale.
We also quoted and agreed with Jan Tinbergen,
Nobel laureate in Economics who had observed
that “Mankind’s problems
can no longer be solved by national
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What is needed is a World Government and this can best
be achieved by strengthening the United Nations system.”
The appeal also drew the attention of Dr. Annan to the
provisions of Article 51 of the Constitution of India,
which also says that “The State shall
endeavour to...foster respect for international law”
but today there is no international law which may be
uniformly applicable to all the countries and peoples
of the world. This appeal dated 1st September 1999. |
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Mr Jagdish Gandhi presenting the children’s
case at the Millennium Forum meeting of
NGO’s and civil societies held at
the UN headquarters in New York, where
his motion to include a call for a ‘New
International Political and Economic Order’
was accepted unanimously and thus became
part of the Agenda of the Millennium Summit.
(Right) A Letter inviting Mr Jagdish Gandhi
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REPLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS
DATED 11TH OCTOBER 1999
In his message dated 11 October 1999, UN Secretary-General
Dr Kofi A. Annan wrote to CMS Manager, Mr Jagdish Gandhi,
“People all over the world look to the United
Nations to protect them — from hunger, disease,
violence, and natural disasters — whenever the
task seems too big for the nations, or regions, to handle
alone. But we at the United Nations can do nothing alone,
either. Our strength is the strength of our member states,
when they agree to act together for the common good.”
Dr Annan also pointed out that in the year 2000, leaders
from all over the world would attend the Millennium
Summit in New York (from the 6th to 8th September 2000).
Dr Annan wrote that these leaders would consider the
challenges ahead and what the UN can do to face them.
He also wrote, “Those leaders will be representing
you, the peoples of the United Nations. It is up to
you to make sure that they come here firmly resolved
to take decisions which can lead to a better life for
all of us, and for our children.” Conveying his
good wishes to CMS, he further stated, “I am counting
on you all.”
UN ‘MILLENNIUM ASSEMBLY’
AND THE ‘MILLENNIUM FORUM’ AS PRELUDE TO
THE LEADERS’ MILLENNIUM SUMMIT
As a prelude to the Millennium Summit of the leaders
of the world, the United Nations organised a Millennium
Assembly and a Millennium Forum. The Millennium Assembly
was a meeting of the UN General Assembly explicitly
devoted to discussing the challenges before the United
Nations in the 21st Century. Its recommendations were
to be a part of the Agenda for the Millennium Summit
(Note: UN General Assembly's agenda item 30 of the 53rd
session dated 10th May 1999 (clause 8) supported the
formation of a 'New International Political and Economic
Order'). The Millennium Forum was a meeting of civil
societies and NGO’s and its ‘declaration’
too was to be a part of the Agenda for the Millennium
Summit. Mr Gandhi was also invited to present his views
at the UN’s Millennium Forum of the NGOs and Civil
Societies.
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