Alliance Programme for
Health, Peace and Social Justice
11. A New World Parliament Of Equal Nations
A new, just world order also requires a new, democratic world parliament, in which not only a few powerful countries have a voting and veto right, but in which all nations of the earth work together on an equal basis. The programme for such an alliance of equal member nations was presented to the world public in June 2004 for the first time. This was the moment that the UN Security Council destroyed the charter of the United Nations and the code of international law based on it by retrospectively legitimising the Iraq occupation – and thus the illegal Iraq war.
The idea of this fundamentally new alternative of equal collaboration between the world’s countries has initiated debate about ‘reform of the UN’. Now that the UN Security Council has itself broken international law, the United Nations and its sub-organisations lack any legal legitimacy. No ‘reform’ of the UN, however thorough, can revive the UN charter and the UN’s legal status.
Any so-called ‘reform’ of the UN by expanding the Security Council to include, principally, the most important industrialised nations, is a farce. This merely further consolidates existing global injustice and makes the UN a political tool to advance their commercial interests against the interests of over 120 developing countries.
The world’s people have an historic opportunity to end a chapter of world history, which was marked by the fact that five nuclear powers appointed themselves as sole members of the UN’s ‘world government’ after the end of the Second World War. From the very beginning the great majority of almost 200 countries in the world had no right to vote in the UN’s sole decision-making committee, the Security Council. In contrast, the resolutions of the UN General Assembly, to which all nations belong, have no binding authority whatsoever. This is no basis for a just world order with future potential.
As part of a just world order we propose creating a new world parliament based on the principle of equal rights accorded to all the world’s nations. This “Alliance of Nations” has the following principles, which we will also promote in the international arena
Preamble
- A lasting world government by the people for the people. The Alliance of Nations is an international organisation which all countries in the world can join. In particular developing countries, emergent nations and the smaller industrial nations have a great need for an international confederation that is able to protect their national identity and at the same time safeguard the fundamental interests of billions of people. Participation by people themselves and non-governmental organisations is an indispensable element of the Alliance of Nations.
- The need to replace the United Nations. The Alliance of Nations replaces the United Nations because the latter has betrayed its own charter, and code of international law in relation to the Iraq war, and thus has lost the inherent justification for its existence. This was only the last straw in a long process. In past decades the United Nations has been misused as the political arm of global commercial powers to enforce their interests on poorer nations and the world’s people.
- The urgency of protecting the world’s nations. The real aim of founding the United Nations and its charter was to ban aggressive wars and prevent a further world war, protecting over 150 smaller countries in the world from occupation by the commercial power of multinational groups. Due to the irrevocable destruction of the United Nations’ international code of law, this protective shield no longer exists. There is thus an objective and urgent need to create a new code of international law, to protect the great majority of nations and their inhabitants, and to secure world peace.
- The urgency of preventing a world war. On two previous occasions humanity decided to found a world parliament. In 1919, after the end of the First World War, the League of Nations was created to prevent another such catastrophe. The inability of the League of Nations to halt Nazi Germany allowed the next world war to come about. In 1945, as a response to this Second World War, the United Nations was founded. Six decades later this organisation has also collapsed because it proved unable to prevent individual member states from attacking other nations, in flagrant violation of international law. This collapse will lead to new and greater international crises, with the ultimate danger of a third world war, one conducted with weapons of mass destruction. The “Alliance of Nations” is the first world government that has been intentionally propounded before – and not after – a world war, through the resolve of all humanity to prevent its own demise and to safeguard the future.
The quicker the “Alliance of Nations” is founded, and the more nations there are that support it, the quicker international security will be re-established and the sooner we and our children will be able to live in a world of lasting peace, health and social justice.
TASKS AND BASES
The “Alliance of Nations” is founded as a world government by the people for the people, on the basis and with the task of embodying a lasting global government which exclusively serves the interests of the world’s people.
- The goals. The goals of the “Alliance of Nations” are to promote and secure a world of peace, health and social justice, as defined in its constitution.
- Equal rights for all people. The task of the “Alliance of Nations” is to create peace for all inhabitants of our planet and to ensure that all people have the same right to health, dignity, prosperity and access to our planet’s resources.
- The same rights for all nations: one nation – one vote. Each country in the “Alliance of Nations”, whether rich or poor, is equal and has a vote. Decisions by the “Alliance of Nations” are binding for its member states. The principle of “one nation – one vote” is an important step towards securing world peace for all future generations.
- People before profit. The “Alliance of Nations” will plan and implement its policies and measures in the interests of human beings, not to serve the commercial interests of company groups. To protect their basic rights, the world’s people can demand a global referendum on important issues, for example on health issues, whose outcome will be binding on the world parliament.
- The benefit of peace and prosperity. Membership of the “Alliance of Nations” serves the interests of every human being and nation in the world, because this global confederation acknowledges their most fundamental needs. The first and most important need of people in the world is for peace and international security through the “Alliance of Nations”. The need for health, social justice and prosperity will be satisfied through extensive multilateral exchange of information, and collaboration in the fields of health, science, trade, micro- and macro-economy, culture and other spheres.
- Closing the gulf between rich and poor nations. Through the benefits of scientific advances and new technologies, dependency of poor nations on rich ones will decline and ultimately end altogether. Two areas – health and energy – will be jointly developed with the greatest possible urgency, as both these sectors have been continually misused in the past to reinforce international dependency and global insecurity. Thus development in these two spheres will inevitably reduce the dependency of the majority of nations, end economic colonialism and finally close the gap between rich and poor countries.
- Health for all – through eradication of the today’s most widespread endemic diseases. Deficiencies of vitamins and other micronutrients are demonstrably the reason for most of today’s endemic diseases, including heart diseases. Animals do not get heart attacks because – in contrast to human beings – they synthesise their own vitamin C within their bodies, thus aiding the production of connective tissue and the stability of their arterial walls. Likewise, micronutrient deficiencies are the most important reason for susceptibility to infectious diseases, including AIDS.
The eradication of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, osteoporosis and the control of global epidemics such as tuberculosis and AIDS is primarily dependent on global dissemination of this fundamental health information. By spreading “world health literacy”, the “Alliance of Nations” will end ignorance in the field of health, thus eliminating the basis for most of today’s endemic diseases. This will save billions of human lives and immense costs in countries’ health systems.
- Ending the investment business with disease. The “business with disease” which intentionally perpetuates and spreads diseases for reasons of commercial profit, will be banned by the “Alliance of Nations”. Patents in the healthcare domain and applying to human, animal and plant DNA, will be abolished because they form the basis for the pharmaceutical business with disease.
- Energy for all – through renewable energies. New sources of renewable energy will be rendered practicable, thus ensuring access to free energy for practically all people in the world. Apart from solar energy, energy derived from water (hydrogen technology) has been scientifically developed. Mass production of these renewable energies and their almost cost-free availability to people will reduce all dependency on the petrochemical investment industry.
- A comprehensive system of international law. The international code of law of the “Alliance of Nations” will replace the now defunct code of law of the United Nations. The international law of the “Alliance of Nations” will be determined according to principles of the inalienable dignity and equal rights of all people in the world, and the desire for peace, security and justice for all nations, whether big or small. This international law of the “Alliance of Nations” will be binding for member states, and sanctions will be imposed for its violation. Waging aggressive wars in violation of the international code of law of the “Alliance of Nations” will be punished by immediate exclusion of the aggressor from the community of nations.
- Peaceful conflict resolution. The member states of the “Alliance of Nations” undertake to resolve all conflicts between them by peaceful means.
- International security system. In order to protect its members from threats, attacks and occupation by non-member states, the “Alliance of Nations” will develop a defence system, including a peace-keeping force, which will be sufficient to effectively oppose any such threat. The “Alliance of Nations” guarantees that such a force will be exclusively defensive in character.
- Disarmament as goal. Developing and maintaining a defensive army of the “Alliance of Nations” in order to safeguard peace is a necessary step in a world still ruled by economic and military powers. At the same time the member states of the “Alliance of Nations” undertake to work towards a ban on weapons of mass destruction and disarmament.
- Headquarters of the “Alliance of Nations”. The key to lasting peace on our planet is abolition of inequality between rich and poor countries. To hasten this process, the headquarters of the “Alliance of Nations” will initially be situated in a country which represents developing countries through a history embodying emancipation from the fetters of colonialism.
We present our programme with a sense of responsibility for our own lives and those of our fellow human beings. We invite all people to work with us to forge this healthy, peaceful and socially just world – and also to benefit our children and all future generations.