-
U N I T E D N A T I O N S N A T I O N S U N I E S
-„ nuL^^s. AUKtsSE POSTALE: UNITED NATIONS. N.f. 1OO17
CABLI AODKISI ADNE1IE TELecRArHIOUE, UNATIONS NIWTOBK
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
CABINET DU SECRETAIRE GENERAL
RKFERKNCC:6 March 1998
Dear Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad,
On behalf of the Secretary-General, I am writing in reply to
your letter of19 February.
The Secretary-General is grateful for the expression of your
support for adiplomatic solution to the crisis over United Nations
weapons inspections in IraqHe is pleased that his mission to
Baghdad resulted in the signing of aMemorandum of Understanding
that will enable the United Nations to continueits vital work in
disarmament and verification.
^As he stated upon arriving in Baghdad, he has a duty under the
Charter ofthe United Nations to try to reduce international tension
wherever he canFortunately, thanks to the support of the Member
States, the mission resulted in adiplomatic solution, averting the
threat of war.
This is a success for the United Nations. The Secretary-General
would likenow to build on it, not only in Iraq but across the
United Nations' diverse andurgent agenda.
Yours sincerely,
0J
t
I C E I V 11
MAR 10 1998
•.OSG/CENTRA
1Shashi Tharoor
Executive Assistantto the Secretary-General
Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad (AL1G)Advocate Supreme Court of IndiaCourt
Add: Supreme Court, Bar Lib.Tilak Marg, New Delhi - 1India
-
U N I T E D N A T I O N S N A T I O N S U N I E S
TELEFAX COVER SHEET
Telefax No. (212) 963-3511Telephone No. (212) 963-2912
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
TO: Mr. Feodor StarcevicDirectorUNICNew Delhi
FAX NO.: 91-11-4620293
FROM: Shashi Tharoor /^Jt '̂J^^^,Executive Assistant to the
,
Secretary-GeneralUnited NationsNew York
DATE: 6 March 1998
TOTAL OF PAGES COVER INCLUDED: 2
Dear Mr. Stapsevic,
Please find attached a copy of the reply I sent to Mr. Mushtaq
Ahmad who wrote to theSecretary-General on behalf of 153 advocates
of the Supreme Court of India.
Thank you for forwarding the letter to us.
k>JSwi^_. -^J-l&-~£K*j
Yours sincerely,
; ,-i : iii Tharoor
J 't-tff. -•"**'
-
19-FEE-199B 15:15 UNIC NEW DELHI 91 11 4G2E293 P. 01
UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE55, Lodi Estate, New Delhi-110
003
19 February 1998
Dear Shashi,
I am faring to you the text of a memorandum -which has been
handed to me today by MrMushtaq Ahmad, Advocate of the Supreme
Court of India. The memorandum has been signed by153 advocates of
the SC. We are sending the original to you by pouch.
With warm regards,
Feodor StarcevicDirector
Mr. Shashi TharoorExecutive Assistant to the
Secretary-GeneralEOSG, UN
Fax: 2129633511
Telephones : 4623439, 4628877 Telefax ; 9MM62Q293 Telex :
3161652 ONDP-IN Cable : OMNIPRESSe-mail 1
[email protected]
-
UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE55, Lodi Estate, New Delhi-110
003
20 February 1998
To:
From:
Executive Office of the Secretary-GeneralUnited Nations, New
York
Feodor Starcevic, DirectorUNIC, New Delhi
fL FEB 2 7 1998
n 1
OF THEFXSFCRETARY-GENERAl
Enclosed please find the original text of the memorandum
containing signatures of 153advocates of the Supreme Court of
India. The text of the memorandum was faxed to Mr. ShashiTharoor on
19 February 1998.
Also enclosed are two clippings on the subject which appeared in
Indian press on 20thFebruary.
Best regards.
Telephones : 4623439, 4628877 Telefax : 91-11-4620293 Telex :
3161652 UNDP-IN Cable : OMNIPRESSe-mail:
[email protected]
-
MUSHTAQ AHMAD (ALIG)Advocate Supreme court of India.
Res: D -39, Abul Fazal EnclaveJamia Nagar, New Delhi
-25Ph:6311301 Fax: 6919076
Court Add: Supreme Court. Bar Lib.Tilak Marg, New Delhi -
1Ph:3385551,3385552
To 19th February, 1998
Mr. Feodor StarcevicDirector, U.N. Information Centre,55, Lodhi
Estate, New Delhi.
Sir,
We are submitting the accompanying memorandum signed by
more than 150 Advocates of the Supreme Court of India. The
memorandum is selef - contained and self explanatory. As
Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary General, is making all out
efforts to solve the crisis in the Middle East, we request
you to send this memorandum to him immediately through
special messenger. We are submitting the original
memorandum with the original signatures. Copies of the
memorandum are being sent to Heads of the permanent member
countries of the Security Council through their Ambassadors
in New Delhi.
Kindly acknowledge this memorandum by issuing a proper
receipt.
Thanking you we remain.
Yours sincerely,
The Signatories of the Memorandum.
(MUSHTAiAdvocat
(ALIG)Supreme Court of India
-
EXECUTIVE OFFICEOF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
To,
1. Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary GeneralUnited Nations Organisation
, New YorkThrough Mr. Feodor Starcevic Director, U.N. Information
Centre,55 Lodhi Estate New Delhi
2. Mr, Bill Clinton, President Of the United States of
AmericaThrough His Excellency Richard Celeste, Ambassadorof the USA
to India, Chanakya Puri, New Delhi
3. Mr. Boris Yeltsin, President of RussiaThrough Russia's
Ambassador, Shantipath, New Delhi
4. Mr. Tony Blair, Prime Minister of United KingdomThrough
Britain's High Commission, Shantipath, New Delhi
5. Mr. Li Peng, Prime Minister of ChinaThrough China's
Ambassador, SOD Shantipath, New Delhi
6. Mr. Jacques Chirac, President of FranceThrough France's
Ambassador, 2/50E, Shantipath, New Delhi
Sub: Condemnation of the threat of USA attack on Iraq and plea
for lifting the economicban to save the lives of starving children
& women.
Sir,
We, the undersighned Advocates of the Supreme Court of India,
vehemently state and protest asfollows:
(1) The proposed threat of U.S. attack on Iraq is ill-conceived
and against the principle ofInternational law. The UN Charter
sanctions the use offeree only in self-defence or ifthe Security
Council decides that there is threat to world peace. Iraq has not
attacked anybody since 1990 and no country other than the US and a
handful of its acolytes believeits criticism of UN Special
Commission's (UNSCOM) work amount to a threat to worldpeace.
Existing Security Council resolutions do not constitute an open
ended invitationfor any country to attack Iraq whenever it wants.
Thus, the overwhelming majority ofthe world nations are against
military operations.
(2) Despite seven years of intrusive operations by the UNSCOM,
the USA continues toinsist that Iraq possesses hidden weapons of
mass destruction. No evidence need benustered because the fact that
weapons haven't yet been found is proof enough of theirexistence —
that seems to be the logic of the President of the biggest
democraticcountry of the world.
(3) A massive expeditionary force has been assembled in the Gulf
and the Pentagon hasbegun boasting about a new generation of bombs
which can penetrate up to four floorsof concrete before detonating.
The US says Iraq has vast stockpiles of chemical andbacteriological
weapons in underground vaults and that the new bombs will destroy
the
[1]
-
weapons without the threat of atmospheric fall out. But if
Washington knows the precise
locations of these alleged stockpiles, why does it not call
Iraq's bluff and ask for those
sites to be inspected by neutral experts including India? This
would be a far more effective
and transparent way of Iraqscompliance with the terms of the
Gulf War cease-fire.
(4) Iraq has rightly highlighted the over-representation of
Anglo-American experts in
UNSCOM and rightly alleged that they are deliberately prolonging
the inspection process
in order to ensure that trade sanction imposed on Iraq in 1990
are never lifted. President
Saddam Hussain has called for UNSCOM to be staffed by experts
from neutral countries
and a firm deadline by which it should wrap up its work. This is
a legitimate and just
demand which the USA, claiming to be champion of rule of law,
ought to concede.
(5) The UNSCOM is functioning as both prosecutor and judge.
President Clinton, as a
personal revenge, wants sanctions to continue until President
Saddam Hussain quits or
is forced out of power (which is well nigh impossible because of
massive public sympathy
at the national and international level). And UNSCOM chief
Richard Butler is morethan happy to oblige. He, until recently, an
Australian diplomat of modest accomplishment
-
(8)
of a number of Security Council resolutions. The UN Security
Council Resolution number242 dated 22/11/1967 (to withdraw from the
Arab occupied territories), UNSC Resolution
numbers 338 dated 29/10/73, 340 dated 25/10/73 not to change the
status quo of
Jerusalem, to vacate the Arab occupied territories, etc. have
been flagrantly violated by
Israel, but no steps have been taken by the USA to execute these
unanimously passed
resolutions. The number of resolutions passed by the UN General
Assembly againstIsrael run in hundreds which have not been complied
with. This is nuclear apartheid
which must be condemned in strongest possible terms. Mr
Clinton's open declaration
that he shall attack Iraq even if there is no permission from
the U N Security Council
turns the apprehension into belief that he wants to test his
newly manufactured ultra
modren nuclear weapons on Iraqis as guinea pigs and then sell
them in market onexhorbitant price. This act on the part of the USA
is highly reprehensible.
There is starvation in Iraq. Thousands of children & women
are dying every week for
want of medicines & other essential commodities. Iraq can't
sell its own oil because ofunjustified prolonged economic sanction.
The UN Charter as well as the American
Constitution recognise the right to life and privacy. The
proposed inspection of President
Saddam Hussain's palaces amounts to attack on the right to
privacy. Iraq's sovereignty
and independence must be maintained. The world body should not
make a mockery of
itself.
Under the premises set forth above, we the undersigned appeal to
your goodself to respect
and honour the world opinion and abandon the threat to attack
Iraq, and instead, work
out a diplomatic solution and also to lift the economic ban in
the name of humanity,
mankind and human rights or at least for the sake of thousands
of starving and dying
Iraqi children & women and to avert a possible world war as
cautioned by the great
champion of peace Mr. Boris Yeltsin.
S.No.
1.
2,
3.
Name, Address& Phone no.
Mushtaq Ahmed (Alig)D-39, Abul Fazl Enclave,Jamia Nagar, New
Delhi - 25Ph: 63 11301(Convenor and pilot of thismamorandum)
a
Signature
-
M Tv-vL-C
\£>
t j
A/ '
-
••v
2-
33
- P-
5" W
37
#fL-
WWLIU
-
46
53-
5%
LX
v>(R,S,e«^>
h.
H l / N - C H C
-^Ax-x/J
-
g7
K-
(I
10 (
M -105
fWl&
-
us
1(4
I
1/8
113
103
'i y
(L^
-
The following Advocates of the Supreme Court of India have
signed and supportedthe accompanying Memorandum
1. Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad (Alig) 36.D -39, Abul Fazal Enclave
37.Jamia Nagar, New Delhi -25 38.Ph: 6311301 Fax: 6919076 39.
2. Mr. J.S. Manhas 40.
3. Mr. Manmohan Singh Gujral 41.4. Mr. K.C. Bajaj 42.5. Mr. A.
Rein 43.6. Dr. (Mrs.) Aparana Bhardwaj 44.7. Ms. Sangeeta Kumar
45.
8. Mr. s. Prasad 46.
9. Mr. K. Sukumaran (Sr. Advocate) 47.10. Mr. R. Nedumaran
48.11. Mr. S. Sivasubramanian (Sr. Advocate) 49.12. Mr. L. C.
Agrawala 50.13. Mr.N.P.Midha 51.14. Mr. A. S. Rawat 52.
15. Mr. Yatendra Sharma 53.16. Mr. Dhan Singh Nagar 54.17. Mr.
M. A. Rehman 55.18. Mr. M. M. Kashyap 56.19. Mr. L.K.Gupta 57.20.
Mr. Prabhat Kumar Yadav 58.
21. Mr. Zaki Ahmed Khan 59.22. Mr. R. Dwivedi 60.
23. Mr. R. S. Sharma 61.24. Mr. G.S. Bajwa 62.25. Mr. Mohd.
Kazim Sher 63.
26. Mr. Prem Sunder Jha 64.27. Mr. Krishna Sharma 65.28. Mr.
Ambhoj Kumar Sinha 66.
29. Mr. R.C. Verma 67.30. Mr. M. Musa 68.31. Mr. K.Kumar 69.32.
Mr. Bawa Al Trehan 70.33. Mr. R. B. Aggarwal 71.34. Mr. B. B. Sinha
72.35. Mr. A. P. Singh 73.
[1]
Mr. S.W. MisraMr. Mukesh K. GiriMr. Imtiaz AhmadMr. R.S. RanaMr.
Ch. Shamsuddin
Mr. Ranjan NegiMr. IndeevarMr. Bhuvenashver Singh
Mr. L. N. GuptaMr. K.P. Singh
Mr. Sanjeev Das
Mr. D. MisraMr. J.P.N. SinghMs. Mamta GuptaMr. N. K. SahooMr.
Rana Ranjeet SinghMr. Himansho MunshiMr. Mehmood PrachaMr. Saleem
AhmedMr. Krishna Mohan ShuklaMr. Santosh SethiMr. K.S. AhluwaliaMr.
Anil Kumar Jha
Mr. Pawan UpadhayMr. Aomraj DuttaMr. S.B. UpadhayMr. Renjeet
SharmaMr. Binay Kumar DasMr. Vijayendra MisraMr. Subrat BirlaMr.
Irshad AhmedMr. Ravi Prakash Srivastava
Mr. S.P. JhaMr. Suresh ChandMr. H.L. SrivastavaMr. Abinash
KumarMr. Rajiv Shankar RayMr. V.K. Sidharthan
-
74.
75.76.77.78.
79.
80.
8 1 .
82.
83.
84.
85.
86.
87.
88.
89.
90.
91.92.
93.
94.
95.
96.97.98.
99.100.
101.
102.
103.
104.
105.
106.
107.
108.
109.
-HO."111.
112.
113.
Mr. Shambhu Prashad Singh
Mr. S.P. SinghMr. Anis SuhrawardyMr. Pardeep KomarMr. Anil
Sharma
Mr. C.N.M. Popli
Mr. S.C. Sharma
Mr. Krishan Mahajan
Ms. Asha Jain Madan
Mr. K.G. Bhagat
Mr. Bhagwat GoelMs. Kusum Choudhary
Mr. Ashok K. Mahajan
Mr. D. K. Gupta
Ms. Rachna Srivastava
Mr. R. Gupta
Ms. Santosh Singh
Mr. R.B. HathendraMr. A.K. Agrawal
Ms. Omika Dubey
Ms. Alka Agrawal
Mr. Ashok Panda
Mr. Ujjal Singh
Mr. Shakeel AhmedMr. K. M.M. Khan
Mr. L.R. Singh
Mr. Amitesh Kumar
Mr. Naveen Chander
Mr. Vikas SinghMr. S. K. Bhattacharya
Mr.M.NabiMr. P.N. PuriMr. Kirpal Singh
Ms. Kalpana K. Tripathy
Mr. Vishal Malik
Ms. Renuka Sharma
Mr. Mansoor Ali
Mr. Shad Anwar
Mr. N. K. Aggarwal
114. Mr. Kunwar C.M. Khan
115. Mr. Shakeel Ahmed Syed116. Mr. A. Sharan117.
Mr.V.A.Mohta118. Mr.N.N.Bhatt119. Mr. Anil Kumar
120. Mr. Anil Kumar Jha
121. Mr.S.C.Birla
122. Mr. M.N. Shroff
123. Mr. R.D. Upadhayay
124. Mr. Manoj Saxena125. Mr. P. Chowdhury
126. Mr. Madan Sharama
127. Mr. G. Seshagiri Rao
128. Mr. Aj ay Kumar Jain
129. Mr. S. Madhusudan Babu
130. Mr. Sajay
131. Mr. Rahat Choudhary132. Mr. Aj ay Choudhary
133. Mr. Pankaj Singh
134. Mr. Ashok Lavania
135. Mr. R.S. Jena
136. Mr. Rajesh Kanti Ray137. Ms. Shalini Choudhary138. Mr.
Rakesh Upadhayay
139. Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma
140. Ms. Hema Sharma
141. Mr. Shrinath Singh142. Mr. Sanjeev Malhotra143. Mr. S.C.
Sharma
144. Mr. A.K. Srivastava
145. Mr. Sivpujan Singh146. Mr. M.S. Dahiya
147. Mr. K.L. Vohra
148. -Mr. R.K. Shah
149. Mr. M.N. Tandon150. Mr. B.B. Dinkar
151. Mr.R.K.Kaura
152. Mr. S.s. Dahiya
153. Mr. Mir Akhtar Husain
[2]