Published on August 19, 2004 in The Mercury (Durban)

Call to All Representatives of the Countries of the Non Aligned Movement

The creation of a new Alliance of Nations to replace the United Nations is an urgent and essential task particularly for the governments of all developing and threshold countries. This step has become inevitable because the United Nation's framework of international law protecting the smaller countries from being attacked by superior powers is no longer existent.

The need for a new international organization also provides the opportunity to define the principles of a lasting international alliance of nations representing the interests of the people of the entire planet. The principle of "One Country - One Vote" is central to this new framework to ensure the interests of all people, but particularly the people and governments of the developing world and the fundamental right for peace, health and social justice. The recently created Pan African Parliament has adopted this principle and can serve as a nucleus for such a global organization.

The creation of a new alliance of nations driven by the nations of the developing world is not a voluntary step but rather an objective historic necessity. The more than 150 nations of the developing and threshold world have only two alternatives - they accept the United Nation's elitist Security Council turning into the political arm of the G-8 economic superpowers, or they seize the opportunity and create a new international organization driven by the needs of the developing world.

And time is running out. After the elections in the United States in November 2004 - and no matter who will win them - the global corporate interests grouped around the multi-trillion-dollar petrochemical and pharmaceutical investment industries will lose no time to cement their global monopoly in strategic areas like health and energy. The world will wake up to the fact that the attack on Iraq was just the beginning of a global conquest on behalf of those economic interests.

Recently, the governments of the African continent have unanimously entrusted South Africa with the honour to host the Pan African Parliament. Now the representatives of the 117 member countries of the Non Aligned Movement share the historic responsibility and opportunity to take this process one step further. The meeting of the Non Aligned Movement in Durban, South Africa,provides a unique opportunity to create the framework of a new international organization such as the Alliance of Nations.

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