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Provisional World Parliament
held in Tripoli, Libya
11 to 15 April, 2006
Written by Dr. Preeti Shankar, Assistant
Parliament Secretary
Attested by Ms. Eugenia Almand, Parliament
Secretary
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Introduction to the
Parliament and to Libya
Day by day
Chronology of the Parliament
List of
Participants at the Parliament
Statement by the
Parliament: the "Tripoli Declaration"
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Introduction
The 9th session of provisional World Parliament
(PWP9) was held in Libya at Hotel al Kabir, Tripoli, from 11 to 15
April, 2006. It was organised by World Constitution and Parliament
Association and hosted by The Peoples’ Revolutionary Committees
Movement, Libya. The deliberations of the 9th PWP were broadcast by
podcast by Radio for Peace International (RFPI) and are available on
the internet at www.rfpi.org. Ms Jean Parker of RFPI managed the
radio broadcast and recording.
United we stand!
The 9th PWP was convened under the authority of
Article 19 of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth
(also known as Earth Constitution). The aim of the Parliament
was to consider new bills and amendments to acts already passed in
the previous sessions of the PWP. It was also an opportunity for the
people of the world to come together on a common platform and
discuss global issues that are of immediate concern for the whole of
humanity, to develop a plan for ratification of the Earth
Constitution and to pave the way for forming a real World
Parliament and a World Government.
Ms Eugenia Almand, Parliament
Secretary, with others.
Day by Day
Chronology
April 9 and 10: Most of the delegates arrived at
Tripoli airport on the 9th and 10th of April and were warmly
received by Mr Rajab Sheha, on behalf of the hosts -- the
Revolutionary Committees Movement, Libya and later by Mr Ramadan
Breki, Vice-President, WCPA, Libya. We were whisked off in cars to
the grand Al Kabir Hotel and ushered into comfortable rooms many of
which afforded a beautiful view of the Mediterranean Sea. The food
and other arrangements at the hotel were superb and suited to people
of different continents. Dinner time was also a time for stimulating
intellectual interaction, discussion on world problems and
development of understanding of various cultures.
Left to right: Dr. Preei Shankar, Dr. Glen Martin, Dr. Terence
Amerasinghe
April 11: This was the great inaugural day when the
Parliament actually began. Professor Glen Martin, Secretary General, WCPA welcomed all the delegates. There was a round of
self-introduction. The Guest of Honour was Mr Suleiman Shahumi,
Secretary, Committee for Foreign Liaison, Peoples’ National
Congress, Libya. He said he was extremely happy to be at the PWP and
appreciated the efforts of the organisers. He informed that Libya’s
system of governance was one of direct democracy, which gave power
and authority to the people to take decisions through Basic Peoples’
conferences. This, he said, was in line with the Declaration of
Peoples’ authority taken on March 2, 1977 when Libya was divided
into Basic Peoples’ Conferences. It was put into law as Law No 1 in
1969 which stipulates in the first Article that the Authority is for
the people exercised through the Basic Peoples’ Committees, male and
female, including members of 18 years and beyond.
This experiment of direct
democracy in Libya, should be studied by scholars the world over and
is closest to real democracy opposed to representative democracy. He
said that Libya insists on international relations being based upon
mutual respect, justice and equality, mutual benefit, respect of
peoples’ sovereignty and choices and respect for human rights as
given in its international document. It calls for non-interference
in internal affairs and negates the use of power or force or
practice of double standards in international relations. It calls
for respect for international law, reform of the United Nations,
transference of decision to General Assembly so that the Security
Council becomes an Executive Organ under the General Assembly and
veto powers are done away with. It distinguishes between terrorism
and fighting for one’s freedom and rejects attempts to Islamize
terrorism. Terrorism, he added, has no nationality, no religion and
no colour. There should be international laws to prohibit anyone
from playing with any religion and hurting the sentiments of others.
He welcomed the delegates at the World Parliament. It is our
responsibility to take steps that guarantee peace and security for
the next generation.
CMS delegation led by Mr R. S. Chandola makes presentation
thanking Beloved Leader, Moammar Gaddaffi, for supporting children’s
appeal for a world parliament. Also, the African Children’s
Parliament appealed for provisional World Parliament assistance
(background) also made a presentation to help Roll Back Malaria and
to eradicate malaria.
Dr Terence Amerasinghe, President, WCPA and Speaker,
9th PWP, thanked Mr Shahumi for his very instructive address. He
said that the Provisional World Parliament was meeting for the first
time on African- Arabian soil. Libya has a great history in the past
and present and greater achievements are expected in the future.
Before Rome became a great city, Libya had a glorious history. There
were prosperous cities on the shores of the Mediterranean. Despite
the ravages caused by Phonecians, Romans, Vandals and Greeks, Libya
has continued to lead Africa and modern history is teeming with the
heroic struggle of Col. Gaddaffi who has helped the Libyans to
establish control over their own affairs. The greatest contribution
of Libya is the system of Direct democracy. All the world’s
resources are to be used equally for the cause of human welfare.
The WCPA is working to give
authority to the people and this is also the primary aim of the
Green Book. The United Nations must be replaced by a World
Parliament. He asked everyone present to read the Earth
Constitution. Dr Glen Martin and Ms Eugenia Almand, Deputy Secretary
General and Parliament Secretary moved the Bill Enabling legislation
for the Office of the World Ombudsmus or Public Defender. After
discussion on this Bill, it was unanimously passed through voting.
The other bills passed on this day were Enabling Legislation for the
Department of Conflict Resolution within the Federation of Earth.
Introduced and moved by Glen T. Martin. Professor Glen T. Martin has
edited a book World Revolution through World Law which
contains the basic documents of the emerging Earth Federation.
20 years ago, America bombed Libya killing Gaddaffi’s two year
old daughter. We attended the anniversary commemorating the
same at the Academy of Graduate Studies, Tripoli
April 12: On 12th of April, Ms
Eugenia Almand introduced the Bill banning the production of fissile
materials for nuclear weapons (World Legislative Act 33) (and nuclear weapons elimination
protocol (WLA 34)). After a lot of discussion with active inputs from Dr Timi
Ecimovic, Head, SEM Institute for Climate Change and, Slovenia, Dr
Santinath Chattopadhyay, Kolkata, India, Mr. Shankar Narayan of
SIMPOL, India, the Bills were passed. There was also a Bill for making
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into World Territory and ordering the US to
abandon its military base at that location (WLA 36). About 40 children from
African Children’s Congress made a presentation before the PWP
requesting the Parliament to take urgent steps to prevent, control
and eradicate malaria in African countries. Their appeal was
unanimously accepted by the Parliament. After that, the City
Montessori School delegation comprising Mr R. S. Chandola, Dr Preeti
Shankar and Mr Rishi Khanna made a presentation on the City
Montessori School campaign for World Parliament on behalf of 30,000
City Montessori School students representing the world’s two billion
children and generations yet to be born. They thanked Col. Gaddaffi
for this support to the children’s appeal for a World Parliament.
The presentation was recorded by TV Jamahiriya, the national TV
channel of Libya and shown in the evening.
Dr Balouki Simfei from Togo
brought greetings from the children of Togo in Africa and offered to
host the next session of the World Parliament in Togo with active
support from the President of Togo. Mr Sarwar Alam, of Bangadesh and
Canada, Youth Coordinator, WCPA, urged more involvement of the youth
in PWP. He said that our heads may be burdened with problems, but we
have hands to act and hearts to heal the wounds. He emphasized the
importance of channeling the energy of the youth for constructive
purposes and said that working for World Parliament was the best way
to do it. The bills passed on this day were “Intensifying the
Campaign for Ratification of the Constitution for the Federation
of Earth and suggestions for a Road Map; Bill banning the
Production of Fissile Materials for Nuclear Weapons , Nuclear
Weapons Elimination Protocol, and the Nuclear Contamination Act (WLA
35), the Bill for making
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into World Territory and ordering the U.S. to
dismantle its military base at that location. These were moved from
the Disarmament Commission and introduced by Ms. Eugenia Almand. Dr.
Timi from Slovenia, Dr. Shankarnarayana from India and Dr. Patricia
Murphy from USA gave valuable comments and suggestions.
Mr. Rajab Sheha managed all our little problems with great
expertise from the official Parliament Office at the hotel
Dr. Bob Blain, delegate from USA spoke on the need
for one world currency in order to eliminate the unfair exchange
rates that help transfer billions of dollars from poor countries to
rich countries every year. The delegates also pondered on ways and
means of intensifying the campaign for ratification of the Earth
Constitution and suggested a Road Map for it. 13 April: The
delegates were invited to the Academy of Graduate Studies where The
International Symposium was held on the Atlantic American cruel
aggression on Libyan Jamahiriya, during Reagan-Thatcher
administration. Several learned scholars participated in this
symposium and denounced the American bombardment on the house of the
leader with an intent to kill him on 15 April 1986. In this attack
by American airplanes, several innocent women and children were
killed and wounded, the most tragic being the death of the two year
old daughter of Col Gaddaffi, Hannah.
Professor Martin also addressed
the audience and said that the only way to stop these repeated
attacks was by adopting the Constitution for the Federation of
the Earth and forming a World Parliament. The delegates were
treated to a sumptuous lunch afterwards at the Academy. The bills
introduced and passed on this day were: Privileges and Immunities
Bill: Agreement on the World Federal Privileges and Immunities (WLA
37),
based largely on the already in force Agreement on the Privileges
and Immunities of the International Criminal Court., Financing the
Provisional World Parliament and Ratification Convention introduced
by Prof. Glen. T. Martin as the Public Utilities Act (WLA 38).
Dr. Amerasinghe, President, WCPA, thanks the Guest of Honour, Mr
Suleiman Shahumi, Secretary, Committee for Foreign Liaison, Peoples’
National Congress, Libya.
After they returned from the Academy, Ms Eugenia
Almand introduced the Privileges and Immunities Bill and the
Elections Act. The financing of PWP and Ratification Convention and
the future venues of the Parliament were also discussed. Togo,
Venezuela, Bangladesh, Maldives were suggested. Dr Dauji Gupta,
former Lord Mayor of Lucknow spoke on the birth anniversary of the
Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian
Constitution. He paid rich tribute to this great son of the soil who
drafted the Constitution drawing the best from several other
constitutions and the great philosophy of India based upon the idea
of Vasudhaiv Kutumbkam, i.e. the Earth is but one family. Dr R.
Ananthanarayanan was specially honoured by Dr Terence Amerasinghe
for his immense contribution in spreading the idea of World
Parliament and Earth Constitution in South India by organizing
seminars and workshops.
Young ladies of Libya took great interest in the
Parliament proceedings
April 14: Visit to Leptis Magna: On 14 April, the
Parliament completed deliberation on the Agreement on the World
Federal Privileges and Immunities, adopting the Agreement. Also, the
Parliament considered a bill for Public Utilities. These allocations
were adopted after some discussion, in positive response to the
requests for support to begin fiscal provisions to combat malaria
and other diseases, to support the world judiciary, and to help
finance the provisional World Parliament itself. Afterwards, the
delegates visited Leptis Magna, the ruins of an ancient Roman city.
It was a unique experience. The delegates saw the huge amphitheatre,
columns, arches and gates which spoke of a thriving world
civilization. Photos were clicked and souvenirs bought from the
souvenir shop.
In the evening, the delegates
visited the former house of the Beloved Leader of Libya, Col.
Muammar Gadaffi. This house was bombed by American planes on 15
April 1986 and is still preserved in its damaged state with broken
almirahs, walls with holes, broken roof etc. Col. Gadaffi’s
daughter, Ayesha, looked stunning in a spotless white suit, as she
addressed the gathering in chaste Arabic (translated to English), as
she recounted her experience of the horrible night 20 years ago,
when the Americans attacked her home and destroyed her toys. She
recalled her father exclaiming, “Allah O’ Akbar, Allah O’ Akbar.”
The surprise item was a beautiful musical performance by popular
singer, Lionel Richie. CITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL sent an invitation to
the Beloved Leader inviting Col. Gadaffi to address through video
conferencing. The Chief Justices’ Conference to be organised by City
Montessori School in December 2006.
We had a wonderful time at the
Roman ruins in Leptis Magna
April 15: The closing ceremony Mr Suleiman Shahumi, was the chief
guest at the closing ceremony. Mr Ramadan Breki, Vice-President,
WCPA, gave a presentation of the Direct Democracy in Libya. It was
pointed out that since the Parliamentary system prevailing in
several countries could not solve the problems of the people all
over the world, we will not repeat the same mistake again. For the
benefit of the people, the Federation should be based on practising
the authority of the people –how people can make a decision without
representation .This idea will lead to strength and make the
Constitution more powerful. To implement, they will form a
Committee of 10 members and see which Article will be modified to
adopt Direct Democracy. Committee will transfer the results of its
work to the President and Secretary General of PWP to circulate this
to all members of WCPA and PWP and the decision to change the
constitution will be taken in the next Constituent Assembly. Dr.
Glen Martin read out the Tripoli Declaration which is appended at
the end of this report.
Closing session continued: Mr Shahumi extended his warm
wishes to the PWP and assured the delegates of full support in their
work. After this several participants made presentations
individually like Dr. Ananthanarayanan of Chennai, India on World
Peace through World Parliament, Dr. Balouki Simfei of Togo, Africa
on the next PWP to be held in Togo, Dr. Bob Blain on Earth currency,
Dr. Alexander Chumakov from Russia on globalization, Dr. Shanti Nath
Chattopadhyay on creative and constructive and democracy, etc. (Dr.
Chattopadhyay is Executive Director of the International Society for
Intercultural Study and Research (ISISAR), an important Indian
organization that works closely with WCPA and the Institute On World
Problems.) Dr. Preeti Shankar read out a report on the 9th PWP held at Tripoli,
Libya. Dr Amerasinghe of Sri Lanka, President of PWP thanked all the
delegates and gave away the certificates to the participants.
April 16 onwards: Farewell: Some
delegate members started leaving for their respective countries on
15th April . This departure stepped up on 16 April. Goodbyes were
said with promises to meet again in the near future. Our special
thanks to the Libyan Government led by the Beloved Leader, Brother, Moammar Al Gadaffi, hosts Dr. Ramadan Breki, Mr. Rajab Sheha and Mr.
Fathi for their support and help. The spirit of World Unity still
binds us all together.
Luncheon at the Academy of Graduate Studies, Tripoli. From
right to left around the table: Brian Blain, Jean Parker, Dr. Preeti
Shankar
Participants of the 9th
Session of the PWP
The 56 delegates from 19 countries
worldwide included
the following:
Dr Terence P. Amerasinghe (Sri Lanka), President,
WCPA and Speaker at the PWP, Prof. Glen T. Martin – USA, Secretary
General, WCPA, Ms Eugenia Almand (USA and Japan), Deputy Secretary
General, WCPA, Dr Dauji Gupta (India), Vice-President, WCPA and
former Lord Mayor, Lucknow, Dr Ramadan Breki (Libya),
Vice-President, WCPA, Mr H. M. Sarwar Alam (Canada and Bangladesh),
Youth Coordinator, WCPA, Dr Preeti Shankar (India), Assistant
Parliament Secretary, Mr Raj Shekhar Chandola (India), Mr Rishi
Khanna (India), Mr. Brian Buckminister Blain (USA), Dr. Robert
Raymond Blain (USA), Dr Timi Ecimovic (Slovenia), Dr Nikolay
Biryukov, (Russia), Mr Mohammed Asharfuzzaman (Bangladesh), Mr
Hossain Shahdat (Bangladesh), Mr Rahman Ashikur (Bangladesh), Dr
Ramanujam Ananthanarayanan (India), Mr Nalin Naomal Perera Jayasurya
(Sri Lanka), Mr Kamal Muthukuda (Sri Lanka), Dr. Patricia Murphy
(USA), Mr Raymond M Boussiengui (Gabon), Dr. Kulic Slavko (Croatia),
Dr. Marija Pavkov (Croatia), Dr Lohmus Ramsurn (Mauritius), Dr Shanthigod Rajaram Tholpadi
(India), Ms Takeda Salma Tjundi
(Mauritania), Dr Hebbale Anantharamaiah Shankaranarayan (India), Dr.
Alexander Chumakov (Russia), Dr Santi Nath Chattopadhyay (India),
Academician, Prof. Dr. Zemfira Verdiyeva (Azerbajian), Prof. Dr.
Minira Garayeva (Azerbajian), Mr Abdul Akber Halaldeen (Sri Lanka),
Mr Maufiya Akber (Sri Lanka), Ms Soili Lyytikainen (Finland), Dr.
Mujibur Rahman (Bangladesh), Ms Jean K Parker (India), Senator
Samuel Oyatolu Oyebisi FMP (Nigeria), Dr Simfrei Magouwedeou Balouki
(Togo), Mr Fred Kromah (Liberia), Mr Bob Jackson (Liberia), Ms Lia
Genovese (U.K.), Sarra Elkumati (Libya), Fathi A Bassit (Sudan),
Kawthar Aldeeb (Libya), Amna al Tohami (Libya), Fathia Ebrebish
(Libya), Hayer Juma Shtewi (Libya), al Khamsa Said Aljali (Libya),
Asma Meftah (Libya), Gada Alasfer (Libya), Abdelbaset Bet Alam
(Libya), Ali Abdallah (Libya), Eng. Rajab Sheha (Libya), Dr. Salem
Zubydi (Libya), Khalifa Alderbak (Libya), Abdel Giader Ehwedi
(Libya).
The above preliminary report of
the Ninth Session was prepared by Assistant Parliament Secretary Dr. Preeti Shankar, and is attested by Parliament Secretary Eugenia
Almand. Over the next several weeks, the Secretariat will compile
and report the more detailed results of the Ninth Session of the
provisional World Parliament.
Tripoli Declaration
of the Ninth Session of the Provisional World
Parliament
We members of the Provisional World Parliament,
meeting at the Al Kabir Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, April 11-14, 2006,
having done substantial work in this session toward building a
transformed world order of peace, justice, and prosperity for all
the citizens of Earth, hereby make the following declaration:
We call upon the nations and
peoples of the world to join us in the building of a truly
democratic world order, free of the violence and horror with which
humankind has entered the 21st century. We call upon the nations and
citizens of the world to ratify the Constitution for the
Federation of Earth and bring the criminal pre-history of human
civilization to an end forever.
We condemn the militarism, war-mongering, and global chaos caused by
both the large and small nation-states of the world. This world-wide
violence by nation-states, and its inevitable response in horrific
acts of terrorism, are intrinsic consequences of a world where
nations recognize no enforceable law above themselves. For each one
sees itself as "sovereign," that is, beyond the law.
Under this horrific world-system,
approximately 193 supposedly independent nations compete for
ascendancy, wealth, resources, or prestige. Nations feel they must
"save face" as if they were schoolchildren engaged in playground
rivalries. Ideology and rhetoric fly between nations, instead of
reasoned discourse, debate, and open discussion. Meanwhile,
impervious to our rhetoric, planetary climate change proceeds
unchecked portending the collapse of our global ecosystem and its
ability to sustain all higher forms of life.
The doctrine of "pre-emptive
self-defense," used by the United States to justify its criminal
invasion and destruction of the people of Iraq, is merely an extreme
version of the doctrine that every nation militarize itself to
protect its independence and sovereignty, a doctrine that has led to
approximately twenty-five million deaths and 130 wars since the
advent of the United Nations.
We condemn the attacks of the
United States against Afghanistan and Iraq as barbaric, inhuman, and
unspeakably evil. No redeeming value can come from destroying other
people’s homes, businesses, schools, and hospitals, and from
murdering innocent civilians. We condemn the savage treatment of
prisoners in the prisons and torture centers created by the United
States. We stand with our Libyan hosts and the good people of the
great Libyan Jamahiriya, as well as with the majority of the world’s
population, as simply human beings shocked and appalled at such
behavior.
The 20th anniversary of the 1986
cruel Atlantic-American aggression on the Libyan Jamahiriya and the
great leader Muammar Gadaffi’s providential escape to lead the
revolution to greater heights was observed while the Provisional
World Parliament was in session. The cruel aggression was denounced,
but at the same time the will to meet it and advance toward a
warless world where U.S. hegemony would be defeated and crushed by
the peoples of Earth was not clearly found except in the
spokespersons for the Provisional World Parliament. Only the
realization of sovereignty for the people of Earth, through the
ratification of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth and the
establishment of democratic world government, can end such
aggression on Earth forever.
The morally egregious behavior of
the United States underlines the illusion of international law.
International law is not law but voluntary rules that supposedly
apply to entities called nations, entities that in principle
recognize no law above themselves. But the imperial arrogance of the
United States, so reminiscent of Nazi Germany, is only a product of
a world system that has plagued humankind for at least the past four
centuries. Before the United States, it was Britain, and France, and
Germany, and Japan, and Portugal, and Spain. In a world of 193
independent sovereign entities, imperialism, war, competition,
distrust, and economic greed are inevitable.
The global system of nation-states
also allows the wealthy in powerful nations to exploit and
dehumanize through poverty the poor in weaker nations. When the poor
rebel because of their poverty, the system of sovereign
nation-states leaves little choice but to repress them militarily
through "counter-insurgency warfare," torture, disappearances, and
massacres in order to maintain the "law and order" that allows the
global system of economic exploitation to continue functioning. This
system of world-wide repression of the poor in order to maintain the
global system of domination and exploitation has led to a massive
international business in weapons sales, military training,
surveillance and spying, and repression of human rights.
Not only does the United States
government stand condemned on historical, conceptual, and moral
grounds, but the world-system of nation-states also stands condemned
on these grounds. The current struggles involving the U.S. with
respect to Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and a dozen other places are
simply manifestations of this system of chaos and cruelty that has
existed for centuries. We condemn as well the U.S. threats to attack
Iran with nuclear and other weapons. This system must be replaced
with democratic world government under the Constitution for the
Federation of Earth.
The only legitimate sovereignty is
the sovereignty of the people of Earth. The only way nation-states
can be made legitimate is through federation under the Earth
Constitution that simultaneously ends war and militarism, ends
the struggle for domination and exploitation, creates universal
prosperity for all peoples, and guarantees the rule of law and
universal human rights to all citizens of Earth. Peace and democracy
as cultural values are the key to transformation of the world. Power
and violence can never transform the world.
At this concluding session of the
Provisional World Parliament, we call out urgently to our brothers
and sisters in every country on Earth: stop the madness, stop the
slaughter, stop the destruction of human beings and our planetary
environment. Join with us in ratifying the nonmilitary, democratic
Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
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