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UN Sec. Gen. Ban Ki Moon Should Go to Sudan with Gov.
Richardson to Bring Peace I commend Governor Richardson for this extraordinary effort,
which may bring success when all else has failed. He is sincere and
was willing to make this arduous trip to Sudan and to many other places,
to achieve what may be a long-lasting peace. Almost every other head
of state, and most of the hands-off armchair rulers and “experts”
in Europe, at the United Nations, and in the ostensibly civilized portions
of the world turned their back, ignored the genocide, and let the destruction
and killing continue, unabated. I recently recommended to Governor Richardson that he
combine efforts with Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary General,
and go together to the Sudan to convince President Al-Bashir to cooperate
with the UN to end the massive genocide going on there. This obliviousness to serious world problems may yet prove
to be the downfall of western industrial society and the leading industrialized
nations. Fortunately, there is one exception to such calumny, recalcitrance,
and indifference: William Blaine Richardson III! Richardson will continue to make these kinds of trips
in the name of diplomacy, an old fashioned concept which still actually
works and works quite well. Pundits, experts, professors, and international
heads of state would do well to consider how one person like Richardson
can jump into a huge and seemingly unsolvable international conflict,
and bring a temporary resolution and perhaps an eventual long-lasting
peace. This is commendable; this is rare in today’s venues; this
is exemplary. New Mexicans who understand what is really going on here,
should take the time to further commend Governor Richardson in person,
by email, by fax, and by telephone. So far, the guest speakers are going to include Arun Gandhi,
MK Gandhi’s Grandson; Jody Williams, Nobel Laureate for her work
in preventing the use of landmines, and Rigoberto Menchu Tum, Nobel
Laureate for her work in exposing and preventing indigenous genocide
in Guatemala. Those are great names, but we need more political and
foreign service types as speakers, some UN Ambassadors, perhaps Peter
Wirth’s uncle Tim Wirth, President of the United Nations Association
of the United States; perhaps Knut Hammarskjold, Dag’s nephew,
perhaps Kim Campbell, the first woman Prime Minister of Canada; many
many more. Why should this Peace Conference be unambitious? Governor
Richardson’s help would bring people from all over the world, and
make Santa Fe even more important than it already is....perhaps we could
build a branch of the Costa Rican United Nations Peace University in
Santa Fe, an idea I first proposed back in 1997. |
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