Campaign for elected UN assembly launched
Campaign for elected UN assembly launched
By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
Published: 23 April 2007
Some 541 politicians, academics and business leaders from Europe and around the world have signed an appeal for the creation of a UN parliamentary assembly to overcome the "democratic deficit" in global affairs and give citizens a bigger voice.
One of the main objectives of the campaigners - including Dame Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop; Arthur C Clarke, author of 2001: Space Odyssey, four Nobel Prize winners and 377 MPs from 70 countries - is to provide a global citizens' platform to bring about change on issues such as global warming. The campaign, which is launched today and has a secretariat based in Germany,will be rolled out across the world in the next three weeks.
The Israeli peace campaigner Shimri Zameret said the idea followed the successful creation of the International Criminal Court. "We were thinking: what is the next step in developing international democracy?" he said. The support of the MPs including 20 from the UK and 48 MEPs, was enlisted for what organisers hope will eventually lead to a "world parliament" at the UN, an idea certain to be opposed, however, by the American hosts of the United Nations. Only nine Americans have signed the appeal and Mr Zameret said the appeal did not have a US branch because of the lack of support in America for the world body./.../
By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
Published: 23 April 2007
Some 541 politicians, academics and business leaders from Europe and around the world have signed an appeal for the creation of a UN parliamentary assembly to overcome the "democratic deficit" in global affairs and give citizens a bigger voice.
One of the main objectives of the campaigners - including Dame Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop; Arthur C Clarke, author of 2001: Space Odyssey, four Nobel Prize winners and 377 MPs from 70 countries - is to provide a global citizens' platform to bring about change on issues such as global warming. The campaign, which is launched today and has a secretariat based in Germany,will be rolled out across the world in the next three weeks.
The Israeli peace campaigner Shimri Zameret said the idea followed the successful creation of the International Criminal Court. "We were thinking: what is the next step in developing international democracy?" he said. The support of the MPs including 20 from the UK and 48 MEPs, was enlisted for what organisers hope will eventually lead to a "world parliament" at the UN, an idea certain to be opposed, however, by the American hosts of the United Nations. Only nine Americans have signed the appeal and Mr Zameret said the appeal did not have a US branch because of the lack of support in America for the world body./.../
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