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Opinion
Are the Nations' Contributions
Enough for the Promotion of World Peace?
by TA Ramesh
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The confessions of Dr. A.Q. Khan, Pakistan’s Father of
Nuclear Bomb reveals how nuclear technological know-how has
been stolen from Europe and sold out to North Korea, Libya
and Iran. This is just a tip of the iceberg. So far, nobody
has ascertained where else further this nuclear technology
might have spread to. Also, the danger of nuclear
proliferation, clandestine sales or smuggling of nuclear
materials has not been brought to an end by the Nuclear Club
members of the world such as USA, UK, France, Russia and
China, the permanent five members of United Nations Security
Council.
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It has come to the open that nuclear fuel has been brought
from Niger for the production of Nuclear Weapons in Iraq by
the Intelligence Report of Britain, which was the cause for
the start of war on Iraq by the Anglo-American forces.
Unfortunately nothing of the sort has been unearthed or
proved so far! But both the President of America, George W.
Bush and the Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair say that
irrespective of the proof not found out for the existence of
WMD and the link between Iraq’s Ba’ath party and the Al
Qaeda terrorist organisation, they have waged war on Iraq in
order to eliminate the threat to world peace and the war
will continue wherever there is threat to world peace due to
the programs of production of WMD or perpetration of
terrorism.
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In spite of the opposition from their own people and the
international community for unilateral war on terrorism,
they justify for their pre-emptive action in Iraq on the
ground that they have ousted the tyrant Saddam Hussein from
power, which is a great relief for the suffering Iraqis,
brought freedom and created condition for the commencement
of democratization process there.
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Recently, Mr. Blair has philosophized that international law
should be amended in such a way that pre-emptive
intervention can be made in any country if it is supporting
terrorism, perpetrating terrorism for the freedom of any
other country and producing Nuclear Weapons for that
purpose. According to him, to develop new world order, UNO
should be reformed and also with or without the approval of
UNO, unilateral action can be taken against the country
posing a great threat to world peace and security. This
philosophy of Tony Blair, according to the intellectuals of
the world, is only a prescription for world anarchy and not
for world order.
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In the long Vietnam War, France had bitter experience in the
past. Afterwards America also did not materialize anything
according to its plan in Vietnam. Then, the way USA waged
war in Afghanistan and later in Iraq, it seems that it has
not learnt any lesson from the Vietnam experience as the
approach to tackle the problem has not changed in the least.
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Unilateral intervention with arrogance, recklessness and
meaninglessness in the internal affairs of other nation as
USA has done in Iraq is nothing but sheer neo-imperialism
only. To solve the problems of proliferation of nuclear
weapons and international terrorism, multilateral effort
with the collective and cooperative involvement of all the
nations is necessary.
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Freedom, reform, democracy, good governance and modernism
are needed in the West Asian countries in order to stop the
politically and economically disenfranchised individuals
opting for extremism and terrorism. Then to stop the
production of weapons of mass destruction by new nations or
vulnerable nations, genuine nuclear non-proliferation treaty
that is popularly acceptable only can be signed and followed
by all the nations.
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To keep this world a peaceful place for human habitation,
nuclear weapons are a great hurdle to mankind. So, total
elimination of nuclear weapons is the biggest task for all
the nations now in the world. Disarmament and destruction of
all weapons of mass destruction have to be carried out
unanimously by all the nations of the world. In this
connection, the American proposal of new nuclear order for
the whole world holds the attention of both the nuclear and
non-nuclear nations now. The old Nuclear Non-proliferation
Treaty was rejected by India and other developing countries
because of the discriminatory approach being followed by the
Nuclear Power nations. Now India is cautiously accepting to
consider the matter in order to do something positive so
that the new nuclear order can be achieved for the promotion
of world peace. But India is not ready to sign on the dotted
line initiated by the Nuclear Non-proliferation regime
unless a credible multilateral mechanism is initiated by UNO
to inspect and monitor the peaceful nuclear activities of
all the nations without any partiality or discrimination.
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Of the seven proposals of the New Non-proliferation Protocol
of International Atomic Energy Agency, two items such as
Countering proliferation and Completion of nuclear fuel
cycle have assumed importance now. So, prevention of
proliferation and inspection of civil nuclear activities
should be carried out not in discrimination but with genuine
approach, which would be the best way to solve this
international problem.
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According to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) I
and II between America and Russia, Nuclear Weapons were
reduced from 22,000 to 6,000 or so in each of the two
countries, which have to be further reduced to 200 in each,
as strategically that would be enough to maintain world
order according to the view of Robert McNamara, the former
US Secretary of Defence. How far this is going to be
implemented depends upon the decision of these two Nuclear
Powers of the world only. If it is sincerely accomplished,
next, NPT and CTBT also can be implemented by the efforts of
the UNO soon.
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Multilateralism rather than unilateralism is the best
approach that can credibly be followed to solve the problems
of proliferation of nuclear weapons and international
terrorism. But war on terrorism has been unilaterally
started by USA with some like-minded nations and has made
this matter a big mess needing the help of UNO to set right
it in order to bring a good end to it. To prevent nuclear
proliferation and weapons of mass destruction falling into
the hands of terrorists, strategic partnerships among
nations are also taking place here and there. In this
connection as part of war on terrorism, the US proposal of
participation of nations towards the proliferation security
initiative is now on the international agenda so as to
interdict ships suspected of carrying nuclear spare parts or
smuggling nuclear materials anywhere on the mid ocean.
Though this is a new idea, if it is initiated by UNO and
implemented with the cooperation of all the nations,
something positive can be achieved according to
international law so that it will not lead to new crisis
later.
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Now both America and Russia are taking efforts to develop
anti-ballistic missile defence system, which is useful to
intercept and destroy enemy missiles in the space itself
before they reach the targets. In this respect, Russia has
achieved an edge over other countries in making a break
through in the development of anti-ballistic missile defence
system. But by such acts both the countries have broken the
arms limitation programme started some years ago. So, it has
come to the stage that no political mechanism can bar any
nation going ahead with the programme of producing nuclear
weapons for its defence purpose. As a result, proliferation
of nuclear weapons by some nations has resumed without any
control or restriction being imposed by any UN resolution.
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