WE AFFIRM that the powerless United
Nations :
- Cannot prevent Nation-States from allowing rights
to be violated
- Can only partially remedy the paradox of hunger in
the midst of abundance ;
- Cannot fight effectively against world problems
;
- Cannot take the responsibility given to them, that
of maintaining peace by conciliation, arbitration and
use of the International Court of Justice.
WE DEMAND INCREASED POWERS for the United Nations
:
- To obtain the nomination of a High Commissioner to
supervise the preparation of a universal convention on
human rights and its ratification by all states ;
- To organize the development of production, the
equal distribution of essential resources and the end
of their destruction ;
- To create permanent bodies whose decisions will
apply to all states in the world to fight against
problems on a world scale ;
- To act more effectively against the causes of war
by having the resolutions passed by the United Nations
put into force.
WE DEMAND TRUE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLES in
the leading UN bodies. We know that the impotence of the
United Nations comes, among other things, from Article 2,
paragraph 7, of the Charter which does not recognize
their supranational powers.
WE DEMAND that the UN, on the occasion of its
25th session, study the means of modifying this article
to permit the limitation of each nation's sovereignty in
favour of the UN, for the organization and defense of
peace, the protection of minorities, international
security, world development and the respect of human
rights.
THEN, on the anniversary of the Declaration of Human
rights, December 10, 1970, we call every man who feels
concerned to a huge public meeting, to arrive at the
necessary conclusions for the survival and safeguard of
humanity.
World Citizens
World Federalists
