[WCUSP] Very Urgent Appeal from Lebanese Section

Tue Aug 8 07:55:39 CDT 2006

thank U Cynthia...thank U all...I hope some time soon we will receive U 
here in Lebanon & you will see for yourselves...we all welcome U...thanx 
again...Samira


On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, C.J. Minster wrote:

> Samira Khoury, a member of our WILPF Lebanon section sent me this email
> appeal.
>
> I will email the WCUSP l.t. separately to discuss adding it to the action
> alert that was recently issued.
>
> for peace,
> C.J.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:23:13 +0300 (EEST)
> From: Samira Khoury <sk05 at aub.edu.lb>
> To: Samira Khoury <sk05 at aub.edu.lb>
> Subject: VERY very URGENT : Fw: Please Write Call for Immdediate Ceasfire
> (fwd)
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
>
> FRIENDS THIS IS VERY VERY URGENT....PLEASE HELP....samira
>
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>    From: Khiam Center
>  Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 12:37 PM
>  Subject: Please Write Call for Immdediate Ceasfire
>
>
>
>    Please immediately send the letter below, with your name, title and
> association (after 'sincerely) to each of the members of the Security
> Council
> as listed. Then forward it on to as many people as you can.
>  Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (KRC)
> Beirut - Lebanon
> P.O. Box: 14-5843
> Tel: +961 3 379612
> Fax: +961 1 701692
> www.khiamcenter.org
> E-mail: krc at khiamcenter.org
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> To: uk at un.int; mission at newyork.mfa.sk; qatar-e at qatarmission.org;
> misionperu at aol.com; congo at un.int; chinamission_un at fmprc.gov.cn;
> mission at un-japan.org; info at greeceun.org; france at un.int; nycmis at um.dk;
> tzny at tanzania-un.org; ghanaperm at aol.com
>  Subject: Call for Immediate Ceasefire in the Middle East
>  H.E M.Jean-Marc de LA SABLIERE, Ambassador of France to the United
> Nations
> france at un.int (President of the Security Council)
>  H.E. Mr. Kenzo OSHIMA , Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Japan to
> the
> United Nations mission at un-japan.org
>  H.E. Mr GUANGYA WANG, Ambassador of the Peoples Republic of China,
> chinamission_un at fmprc.gov.cn
>  H.E. Mr Basile IKOUEBE, Ambassador of the Republic of the Congo to the
> United
> Nations, congo at un.int
>  H.E. Mr Oswaldo de Rivero, Ambassador of Peru, misionperu at aol.com
>  H.E. Mr Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, Ambassador of the State of Qatar to
> the
> United Nations, qatar-e at qatarmission.org
>  H.E. Mr Peter Burian, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic,
> mission at newyork.mfa.sk
>  H.E. Sir Emyr Jones Parry, UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to
> the
> United Nations in New York, uk at un.int
>  H.E. Ms Ellen Margrethe LOJ Ambassador of Demark  to the United Nations
> nycmis at um.dk
>  H.E. Mr Cesar F. MAYORAL, Ambassador of Argentina to the United Nations,
> argentina at un.int
>  H.E. Dr. Augustine P. Mahiga Ambassador of the United Republic of
> Tanzania to
> the United Nationstzny at tanzania-un.org
>  H.E. Mr Nana Effah-Apenteng, Ambassador of Ghana to the United Nations,
> ghanaperm at aol.com
>  H.E. Mr Adamantios Th. Vassilakis, Ambassador of Greece to the United
> Nations,  info at greeceun.org
>  Dear Members of the Security Council,
>  I urge you to demand  that Israel agrees to an immediate and
> unconditional
> ceasefire that has been persistently demanded by Lebanon and Palestine.
>
> Israel blatantly has no limits in exercising its inhumanity and criminal
> acts
> of war against Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.
>  Sanctions should be imposed on Israel for its daily savage strikes on
> Palestine and its invasion of Lebanon that far exceed Saddam Hussain's 1990
> military operations in Kuwait. Israeli leaders should be charged with war
> crimes.
>  It is heartbreaking for decent people to watch on the news the
> desperation,
> grief and trauma that Palestinian and Lebanese families suffer. We look to
> the
> Security Council to fulfil the conditions of the United Nations Charter
> forthwith in relation to protecting the peoples of  Palestine and Lebanon.
>  It should also concern you that the Security Council's delay and
> ineffectiveness to act responsibly to end these hostilities reveals to the
> world a potential redundancy that neatly aligns with the USA's call  to
> dismantle the United Nations. In fact, Israel's precise targeting of the UN
> position in Lebanon resulting in the deaths of UN personnel endorses the
> USA/Israel complete lack of regard for the United Nations and reinforces the
> US
> aspirations for unhindered power. The repeated US obstruction of peace for
> Palestinian and Lebanese civilians in the Security Council should also
> hasten
> the implementation of the  Security Council reforms especially on the power
> of
> the veto.
>  Once again, on humanitarian grounds I  ask you to deal with the matter of
> the
> ceasefire urgently and vigorously.
>  Sincerely
>
>
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>
>
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