[Lucky Lukeshenko of Blelarus gets it close enought to right to cop the cohiba--but he does leave out some recent targets, esp those of special interest here @ CM/P: Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Syria, North Korea. Anyway, you know. But dig it, because it will lead you very soon to the answer to the title question. --nb: don't miss the pitch at the end; it's important too. --mc]
THE ONCE PROSPEROUS YUGOSLAVIA WAS DEVASTATED AND DISAPPEARED FROM THE MAP
OF EUROPE.
WONDER HOW?
IF THERE ARE NO CONFLICTS - THEY ARE INVENTED.
IF THERE ARE NO PRETEXTS FOR INTERVENTION - IMAGINARY ONES ARE CREATED.
TO THIS END A VERY CONVENIENT BANNER WAS CHOSEN - DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN
RIGHTS. AND NOT IN THEIR ORIGINAL SENSE OF THE RULE OF PEOPLE AND PERSONAL
DIGNITY, BUT SOLELY AND EXCLUSIVELY IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE US
LEADERSHIP.
REGRETTABLY, THE UNITED NATIONS, THOUGH IT BELONGS TO US ALL, ALLOWS ITSELF
TO BE USED AS A TOOL OF SUCH POLICY.
THE LEADERS OF THE SOVEREIGN STATES OF YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ WERE PUT BEHIND
BARS ON GROUNDLESS, ABSURD AND FAR-FETCHED ACCUSATIONS. THIS WAS A VERY
OPPORTUNE WAY TO CONCEAL THE TRUTH ABOUT ANNIHILATION OF THEIR COUNTRIES.
THE TRIAL OF MILOSEVIC WAS MADE INTO A CARICATURE SINCE LONG AGO. SADDAM
HUSSEIN WAS ABANDONED TO THE WINNER'S MERCY, LIKE IN BARBARIAN TIMES. THERE
IS NOBODY TO DEFEND THEIR RIGHTS EXCEPT THE UN, THEIR STATES NO LONGER
AROUND, DESTROYED.
THEY SHOULD BE RELEASED TO BE ABLE TO DEFEND FREELY THEIR RIGHTS, HONOUR AND
HUMAN DIGNITY.
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ALYAKSANDR LUKASHENKA AT THE UN 2005 WORLD SUMMIT
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Speech of the President of the Republic of Belarus Alyaksandr Lukashenka
at the 2005 World Summit, high-level plenary meeting of the 60th Session of
The General Assembly of the United Nations
New York, 15 September 2005
http://www.un.org/webcast/summit2005/statements15/belarus050915eng.pdf
Mr. President,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
To have an honest look at today's world is the reason why state leaders have
convened here at the United Nations. Together we must gain the understanding
of the main thing: do we lead our countries and the mankind along the right
path? We should answer this question for ourselves and our nations. Without
that we have no chance to get out of the deadlock that we are in.
Fifteen years have passed since the break-up of my country, the USSR. That
event dramatically changed the world order. The Soviet Union, despite all
mistakes and blunders of its leaders, was the source of hope and support for
many states and peoples. The Soviet Union provided for the balance of the
global system.
Today the world is unipolar with all the consequences stemming from this.
The once prosperous Yugoslavia was devastated and disappeared from the map
of Europe.
The long-suffering Afghanistan became a hotbed of conflicts and drugs
trafficking.
A bloody slaughter in Iraq is continuing to the present day. The country has
turned into a source of instability for the vast region.
Iran and North Korea, Columbia, Cuba and other states are looked at through
gun sights.
Belarus is a nation just like the majority represented in this hall. Having
emerged from the debris of the Cold War, Belarus has managed to become a
state of advanced science and technology inhabited by ten million of highly
educated and tolerant people. The UN ranked us as a developed country with a
high level of human development.
Like you, what we need from the world is peace and stability. Nothing more.
The rest we shall create ourselves through our own efforts.
My country is free from conflicts. Different nations and nationalities
peacefully coexist in Belarus each practicing religions of their own and
having their own way of life.
We do not cause any trouble for our neighbours, do not have any territorial
claims, do not try to influence their choice of the way of development.
We gave up our nuclear arms and voluntarily relinquished the rights of a
nuclear successor to the USSR.
Today we shall sign the Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear
Terrorism. We also declare that we have decided to sign the Additional
Protocol to the Agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the
International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in
Connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
We have established a lasting and successful union with Russia as our very
close neighbour.
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We build our country using our own wits and on the basis of our own
traditions.
But it is obvious that this very choice of my people is not to everyone's
pleasure. It doesn't please those who strive to rule the unipolar world.
Wonder how?
If there are no conflicts - they are invented.
If there are no pretexts for intervention - imaginary ones are created.
To this end a very convenient banner was chosen - democracy and human
rights. And not in their original sense of the rule of people and personal
dignity, but solely and exclusively in the interpretation of the US
leadership.
Has the world really become so black-and-white, deprived of its diversity of
civilizations, multicoloured traditions and ways of life meeting aspirations
of people?
Of course not! The simple thing is that it is a convenient pretext and an
instrument to control other countries.
Regrettably, the United Nations, though it belongs to us all, allows itself
to be used as a tool of such policy. I am saying this with particular
bitterness and pain as President of the country that co-founded the UN,
after sacrificing the lives of one third of its people during the Second
World War for the sake of our own freedom and the freedom of Europe and the
entire world.
The Human Rights Commission keeps mechanically stamping resolutions on
Belarus, Cuba and other countries. Attempts are being made to impose such
resolutions also on the UN General Assembly.
But how can the United Nations be minding imaginary "problems" while unable
to see true disasters and catastrophes? Those which nobody other than the UN
as community of civilized nations can cope with?
Quite recently, in the room next to ours we were shown maps and graphs
allegedly depicting weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Were those weapons
found?
They do not exist. In the meantime, Iraq is bleeding, devastated, people
brought to utmost despair. Terrorists are threatening to use weapons of mass
destruction against cities in Europe and America.
Has there been an open and independent trial under UN supervision of the
Guantanamo prisoners? How many of them are there and who are they?
Who will defend the rights of the Abu Graib victims and punish all of their
torturers without exception?
Afghanistan was destroyed with rockets and bombs under the pretext of
finding Bin Laden. Was the world's "number one terrorist" captured? Where is
he now?
He is at large, but Afghanistan and Iraq territories began to generate
hundreds and thousands of international terrorists.
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Foreign troops occupied the independent Afghanistan but the drugs production
grew ten-fold.
Did those troops enter the country for this purpose?
Today, Belarus, Tajikistan, Russia and other former Soviet states are
literally flooded with a wave of "traditional" drugs from Afghanistan
meeting a wave of previously unknown synthetic drugs from Europe.
The leaders of the sovereign states of Yugoslavia and Iraq were put behind
bars on groundless, absurd and far-fetched accusations. This was a very
opportune way to conceal the truth about annihilation of their countries.
The trial of Milosevic was made into a caricature since long ago. Saddam
Hussein was abandoned to the winner's mercy, like in barbarian times. There
is nobody to defend their rights except the UN, their states no longer
around, destroyed.
They should be released to be able to defend freely their rights, honour and
human dignity.
AIDS and other diseases are ravaging Africa and Asia.
Poverty and deprivation have become a real and not a virtual weapon of mass
destruction, moreover - racially selective one.
Who will be able to stop this?
Who will insist that the United States of America put an end to its attempts
against Cuba and Venezuela? These countries will independently determine
their lives.
Trafficking in persons has become a flourishing business. Sexual slavery of
women and children are seen as a common thing, almost a norm of life. Who
will protect them and bring to justice consumers of "live commodity"?
How can this disgrace to our civilization be done away with?
This, in short, is the distressing account of the transition to the unipolar
world.
Was it for that purpose that we established the United Nations?
Is it not high time for the UN to put an end to internal corruption scandals
and get down in deed to address anguish and misery of the world? The answer
to this question, in our view, is very clear.
We cannot bury our head in the sand like an ostrich.
In the end, the UN is us.
Therefore, it is up to us to take the destiny of the world in our own hands.
We must realize that the unipolar world is a world with a single track, a
one-dimensional world.
We must become aware that the diversity of ways to progress is an enduring
value of our civilization, the only one that can ensure stability in this
world.
The freedom of choice of the way of development is the main precondition for
a democratic world order. This is exactly what this Organization was
established for.
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I do hope that the mighty of the world will understand this too. Otherwise,
the unipolar world will ultimately strike them back. Great American
Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, who stood at the roots of
the League of Nations and the United Nations, were conscious of that.
Should we agree between us on this principal point, then we would succeed in
implementing the principles of multipolarity, diversity and freedom of
choice both in reality and the UN documents that we must abide by. We would
protect the world from terrorism and the vulnerable, women and children,
from slavery. We would protect all those unprotected.
It is then that the UN would become the organization of the genuinely united
nations. This, and not the numerical increase of the Security Council
membership, is precisely the core of the UN reform.
I thank you.
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URGENT FUNDRAISING APPEAL
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NEW ACCOUNT IN AUSTRIA AVAILABLE
(with all necessary details for bank transfers)
AFTER OUR ACCOUNT IN GERMANY WAS FROZEN
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President Milosevic has the truth and law on his side. In order to use that
advantage to achieve his freedom, we must fight this totally discredited
tribunal and its patrons through professionally conducted actions which
would involve the Bar Associations, the European Court, the UN organs in
charge and the media.
Our practice has shown that ad hoc voluntary work is not enough to deal
properly with these tasks. The funds secured in Serbia are still enough only
to cover the expenses of the stay and work of President Milosevic's legal
associates at The Hague (one at the time). The funds secured by the German
section of the ICDSM (still the only one with regular contributions) are
enough only to cover minimal additional work at The Hague connected with
contacts and preparations of foreign witnesses. Everything else is lacking.
These days, the fundraising activity of the German section was a target of a
groundless attack of the customs police in Germany. This makes the need
for your extraordinary effort dramaticaly urgent! Even the basic defence
activities
at The Hague are at stake!
As a most practical way to send your donations, we are able to offer now the
account of a friendly organization in Austria (see below). Please send your
donations
to that account now, to fill the gap made after the German account was
frozen. Have in
mind that all bank transfers within the EU are now at the same price like
within any of
its countries.
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3000-5000 EUR per month is our imminent need.
Our history and our people oblige us to go on with this necessary action.
But without these funds it will not be possible.
Please organize urgently the fundraising activity
and send the donations to the following account:
Jugoslawisch-Österreichische
Solidaritäts-Bewegung. (JÖSB)
Bank Austria
IBAN AT49 1200 0503 8030 5200
BIC BKAUATWW
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All of your donations will be used for legal and other necessary
accompanying activities, on instruction or with the consent of President
Milosevic. To obtain additional information on the use of your donations or
to obtain
additional advice on the most efficient way to submit your donations or to
make bank
transfers, please do not hesitate to contact us:
Peter Betscher (ICDSM Treasurer) E-mail: peter_betscher@freenet.de
Phone: +49 172 7566 014
Vladimir Krsljanin (ICDSM Secretary) E-mail: slobodavk@yubc.net
Phone: +381 63 8862 301
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For truth and human rights against aggression!
Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic!
Freedom and equality for people!
On behalf of Sloboda and ICDSM,
Vladimir Krsljanin,
Foreign Relations Assistant to President Milosevic
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SLOBODA urgently needs your donation.
Please find the detailed instructions at:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm
To join or help this struggle, visit:
http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association)
http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan
Milosevic)
http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)
http://www.free-slobo-uk.org/ (CDSM UK)
http://www.icdsm-us.org/ (US section of ICDSM)
http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)
http://www.pasti.org/milodif.htm (ICDSM Italy)
http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)
http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center)
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