There is a Way to Stop the War

UN Resolution 377A gives the UN General Assembly the power to tell the
Security Council to stop the attack on Iraq. You can go to:
<www.ufp.ht.st> to sign the petition to stop the war.

The Center for Constitutional Rights, Greenpeace, and the Carlisle
Peace College are calling upon the Member States of the United Nations
to stop the war against Iraq. Under the Uniting for Peace initiative,
when there is a stalemate within the Security Council, the General
Assembly can be convened to consider and recommend collective measures
to maintain or restore peace.

The Charter gives the UN Security Council "the primary responsibility
for the maintenance of international peace and security." But long
ago, the members of the United Nations recognized that due to the
permanent members veto powers, impasses would occur within the
Security Council. They set up a procedure aptly titled "Uniting for
Peace" under Resolution 377 to solve this problem.

The resolution provides that, if there is a lack of unanimity within
the Security Council and it cannot maintain international peace, then
the General Assembly "shall consider the matter immediately?" It can
meet within 24 hours to consider the matter and recommend collective
measures to "maintain or restore international peace and security."

Quite a number of countries are supporting the call for an Emergency
Session, including Russia, Indonesia, and Brazil, and now the
President of the General Assembly Jan Kavan of the Czech Republic says
it is quite likely the special session will be called this week
(perhaps on Tuesday March 25).

To sign the petition to Call for an Emergency Meeting and to Stop
the War go to: <www.ufp.ht.st>.

So far tens or hundreds of thousands of people have signed the
petition. It is being sent to all of the member states of the United
Nations.

Also for an independent analysis of the unsubstantiated claims
regarding weapons of mass destruction made by the US and UK
governments go to: <http://traprockpeace.org/weapons.html>.

For more information on R377 go to
<http://ccr-ny.org/v2/whatsnew/whatsnew_contents.asp>.

You can also contact Steven Watt at the Center for Constitutional
Rights at 212-614-6430 or Rob Wheeler of the Peace College at
717-261-1894. You can write to Steven at smwatt@ccr-ny.org or Rob at
robineagle@worldcitizen.org