Iraqi CP appeal

["Pip, Peter & Zoe" <ppz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am still fishing for comments on the call for UN intervention in Iraq.

Peter Boyle

Got this from the CP of Iraq website:

Letter sent to

To:
Mr Kufi Annan, UN Secretary General
Members of the UN Security Council
European Union presidency
Mr Amro Mousa, Arab League Secretary General
Islamic Conference presidency
International Human Rights Organisations
All Parties, Organisations and World Public Opinion

In this extremely grave situation, we call upon you to:

*  Press for a halt to the war, ending US unilateralism in dealing with
the Iraqi issue, and returning to international legitimacy and the UN,
acting within the framework of its responsibilities for preserving
security and peace in the world.

*  Act urgently to ensure that food, medicine and other basic needs are
provided to the Iraqi people, and to work for lifting the economic
blockade.

*  Ensure the implementation of the Geneva conventions, the protection
of Iraqi civilians and infrastructure, and respecting human rights of
Iraqi people in accordance with relevant international agreements and
treaties.

*  Send UN human rights monitors to Iraq, with the task of preventing
violations against Iraqi civilians, as well as urgently investigating
the fate of thousands of political prisoners and detainees, with the aim
of saving their lives from physical liquidation by Saddam's regime under
the cover of war.

*  Reject the invasion, occupation and US military rule of Iraq, and to
ensure that our Iraqi people exercise their right to decide their
destiny, choosing the form of their future government with their own
free will, without foreign interference or patronage from any quarter.

*  Support convening an International Conference on the Iraqi Issue,
under UN auspices, with the participation of representatives of Iraqi
democratic and patriotic forces, in order to tackle all aspects of the
Iraqi crisis, put an end to war and its tragedies, and to open up
prospects for resolving the issue on the basis of international
legitimacy, so as to ensure genuine democratic change in our country.

*  Protect Iraq's national wealth and resources, especially oil, as they
belong the Iraqi people who alone have the right of disposal over these
resources through democratically elected constitutional bodies, as well
as protecting Iraq's unity and sovereignty.

* Support Iraqi people's aspiration to establish a transitional
broadly-based coalition patriotic government which would ensure
democratic freedoms, and prepare conditions and prerequisites for free
elections under UN supervision, as an essential step along the path of
building a constitutional democratic Iraq.



As enormous grave dangers threaten our people, who are caught up between
the war and the disastrous policies of the dictatorial regime, we look
forward to your active solidarity and support for our Iraqi people in
their just struggle to stop the war, get rid of the dictatorial regime
and build an Iraq of peace, freedom and dignity: a unified democratic
federal Iraq.



The Central Committee - Iraqi Communist Party
Shaqlawa, Iraqi Kurdistan

23 March 2003