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You can copy the grouped email addresses into your
"Send To" field, and the draft letter
below, into body of your email, enter your contact info, and press send.
As you can see from
Cavanaugh's piece, time and impact are crucial.
From John Cavanaugh at the Institute for Policy Studies:
We now have a sense
of the Bush Administration's timing on the end game for war. Powell
has announced from Asia that the U.S. and the British will introduce
their second resolution this week, then Blix will report to the Security
Council on Friday, March 7. Then, the US will push for a quick vote
on the resolution, aiming for early the following week: Monday the 10th
or Tuesday the 11th. They could then launch war within days of that.
Hence, we need maximum pressure leading up to March 10th.
In the UN, the US
has only four votes with it now (US, UK, Bulgaria, Spain). They need
5 more yes votes for a total of 9 votes to pass the resolution, so they
are putting heavy pressure on the 6 countries most likely to cave: Chile,
Mexico, Pakistan, Angola, Cameroon, and Guinea. We need maximum pressure
and activities in these countries to try to hold on to two of them.
The most likely to stick with us are Mexico, and perhaps Chile and Pakistan.
But the pressures on these 6 from the US will be enormous.
grouped
email addresses: copy & paste into your "Send
To" field
inquiries@un.org;
france@un.int; rusun@un.int; chinamission_un@fmprc.gov.cn; uk@un.int;
bulgaria@un.int; info@cameroonmission.org; guinea@un.int; mexico@un.int;
syria@un.int; emb.ismael.martins@angolamissionun.org; chile@un.int;
contact@germany-un.org; spain@spainun.org; pakistan@un.int
draft letter: copy
& paste
into your body of your
email message,
edit as appropriate & press SEND
To Secretary General
Kofi Annan and the Permanent Representatives of Members of the Security
Council:
I wish to express
my heartfelt support for efforts in the Security Council to assure that
international inspections are given sufficient time and resources to
achieve the containment and disarmament of Iraq without resorting to
war.
The world must take
seriously the potential suffering that can result if any weapons of
mass destruction remain under the control of Iraq, especially given
the extremely repressive and brutal history of its regime.
But against that
risk must be weighed the absolute certainty that foreign invasion and
occupation will result in tens if not hundreds of thousands of dead
and wounded civilians and combatants, wide scale destruction, and millions
of displaced persons and refugees - -as well as the grave risk of regional
destabilization.
The test of the
viability of the United Nations is not whether it accedes to a paradigm
of machismo and threats of irrelevance, but whether it is able to insure
that the collective wisdom and will of the community of nations can
govern the present imbalance of wealth and power in the world.
Sincerely,
Your name etc
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Email addresses
circulated through United for Peace:
Secretary General
Kofi Annan <inquiries@un.org>,
Ambassador S.E
M. Jean-David Levitte <france@un.int>,
Ambassador Mr.
Sergey Lavrov <rusun@un.int>,
Ambassador Wang
Yingfan <chinamission_un@fmprc.gov.cn>,
Ambassador
Sir Jeremy Greenstock <uk@un.int>,
Ambassador Mr.
Stefan Tafrov <bulgaria@un.int>,
Ambassador Martin
Belinga Eboutou <info@cameroonmission.org>,
Ambassador M.
Franois Lonseny Fall <guinea@un.int>,
Embajador Adolfo
Aguilar Zinser <mexico@un.int>,
Ambassador Dr.
Mikhail Wahbi <syria@un.int>,
Ambassador Dr.
Ismael Gaspar Martins <emb.ismael.martins@angolamissionun.org>,
Embajador Juan
Gabriel Valdés <chile@un.int>,
Ambassador Dr.
Gunter Pleuger <contact@germany-un.org>,
Embajador Inocencio F. Arias <spain@spainun.org>,
Ambassador Munir
Akram <pakistan@un.int>,
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