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Letter: Global community
The Jakarta Post | Tue, 01/13/2009 12:30 PM | Reader's Forum
Most people understand that, as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Pope Benedict recently observed, global problems require global solutions.
For this to happen, however, we require two things: a change in our consciousness so that we recognize the earth’s resources are finite, and more effective international institutions that can keep us from destroying each other and the environment.
The UN must be strengthened so that it becomes more than a talk shop, and has the resources to fulfill the great responsibilities it bears for peace, development and social justice. One idea is to give citizens and not just nations direct input into the system. Europe now has its own parliament and there could be one at the United Nations too.
The Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly (detailed at www.unpacampaign.org) proposes a consultative body, first composed of national parliamentarians, that transitions to direct elections in the same way that the European Parliament did.
The world is now a global community and we need democratic global institutions that reflect this new reality.
A parliamentary assembly at the United Nations would by a symbol of a new global consciousness, a lever for further reform, and a way for the world to start working together right now, for the common interest.
LARRY KAZDAN
Vancouver
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