DRAFT PROTEST TO THE UN SECR. GENERAL Kofi Annan, Secretary-General United Nations New York, Your Excellency, We have just learned with dismay that you have requested UN monitoring personnel to leave Iraq as a result of threats by the United States to commit aggression against Iraq. By requesting UN personnel to leave Iraq, you have in fact submitted to United States blackmail against the United Nations and given a green light for the commission of an act of aggression in breach of the Charter. We kindly wish to draw your attention to the fact that thousands of civilians who are not UN personnel might be killed by such aggression. You did not offer these people to save their lives by leaving Iraq. By your act of cowardice you are implying that their lives are less worth than UN personnel. While the United States, by levelling threats against Iraq, is already committing a breach of the Charter, your decision to remove UN personnel from Iraq in view of these threats, may mark the final moral demise of the United Nations organisation as an independent organisation. We urgently ask you to reconsider your decision to remove UN personnel from Iraq in response to US threats against Iraq and make it abundantly clear to the United States that any aggression against Iraq would constitute an aggression against the United Nations Organisation and its personnel and a breach of the Charter. Sincerely yours, ------------------------------------------------------------------- Elias Davidsson - Post Box 1760 - 121 Reykjavik - Iceland Tel. (354)-552-6444 Fax: (354)-552-6579 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.nyherji.is/edavid ------------------------------------------------------------------ end ============== Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List As vilified, slandered and attacked by One Nation mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html