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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

CABINET DU SECRETAIRE GENERAL

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Dear Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad,

On behalf of the Secretary-General, I am writing in reply to your letter of19 February.

The Secretary-General is grateful for the expression of your support for adiplomatic solution to the crisis over United Nations weapons inspections in IraqHe is pleased that his mission to Baghdad resulted in the signing of aMemorandum of Understanding that will enable the United Nations to continueits vital work in disarmament and verification.

^As he stated upon arriving in Baghdad, he has a duty under the Charter ofthe United Nations to try to reduce international tension wherever he canFortunately, thanks to the support of the Member States, the mission resulted in adiplomatic solution, averting the threat of war.

This is a success for the United Nations. The Secretary-General would likenow to build on it, not only in Iraq but across the United Nations' diverse andurgent agenda.

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Dear Mr. Stapsevic,

Please find attached a copy of the reply I sent to Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad who wrote to theSecretary-General on behalf of 153 advocates of the Supreme Court of India.

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Dear Shashi,

I am faring to you the text of a memorandum -which has been handed to me today by MrMushtaq Ahmad, Advocate of the Supreme Court of India. The memorandum has been signed by153 advocates of the SC. We are sending the original to you by pouch.

With warm regards,

Feodor StarcevicDirector

Mr. Shashi TharoorExecutive Assistant to the Secretary-GeneralEOSG, UN

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UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE55, Lodi Estate, New Delhi-110 003

20 February 1998

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Executive Office of the Secretary-GeneralUnited Nations, New York

Feodor Starcevic, DirectorUNIC, New Delhi

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Enclosed please find the original text of the memorandum containing signatures of 153advocates of the Supreme Court of India. The text of the memorandum was faxed to Mr. ShashiTharoor on 19 February 1998.

Also enclosed are two clippings on the subject which appeared in Indian press on 20thFebruary.

Best regards.

Telephones : 4623439, 4628877 Telefax : 91-11-4620293 Telex : 3161652 UNDP-IN Cable : OMNIPRESSe-mail: feodor@giasdlOLvsnl.net.in

MUSHTAQ AHMAD (ALIG)Advocate Supreme court of India.

Res: D -39, Abul Fazal EnclaveJamia Nagar, New Delhi -25Ph:6311301 Fax: 6919076

Court Add: Supreme Court. Bar Lib.Tilak Marg, New Delhi - 1Ph:3385551,3385552

To 19th February, 1998

Mr. Feodor StarcevicDirector, U.N. Information Centre,55, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi.

Sir,

We are submitting the accompanying memorandum signed by

more than 150 Advocates of the Supreme Court of India. The

memorandum is selef - contained and self explanatory. As

Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary General, is making all out

efforts to solve the crisis in the Middle East, we request

you to send this memorandum to him immediately through

special messenger. We are submitting the original

memorandum with the original signatures. Copies of the

memorandum are being sent to Heads of the permanent member

countries of the Security Council through their Ambassadors

in New Delhi.

Kindly acknowledge this memorandum by issuing a proper

receipt.

Thanking you we remain.

Yours sincerely,

The Signatories of the Memorandum.

(MUSHTAiAdvocat

(ALIG)Supreme Court of India

EXECUTIVE OFFICEOF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

To,

1. Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary GeneralUnited Nations Organisation , New YorkThrough Mr. Feodor Starcevic Director, U.N. Information Centre,55 Lodhi Estate New Delhi

2. Mr, Bill Clinton, President Of the United States of AmericaThrough His Excellency Richard Celeste, Ambassadorof the USA to India, Chanakya Puri, New Delhi

3. Mr. Boris Yeltsin, President of RussiaThrough Russia's Ambassador, Shantipath, New Delhi

4. Mr. Tony Blair, Prime Minister of United KingdomThrough Britain's High Commission, Shantipath, New Delhi

5. Mr. Li Peng, Prime Minister of ChinaThrough China's Ambassador, SOD Shantipath, New Delhi

6. Mr. Jacques Chirac, President of FranceThrough France's Ambassador, 2/50E, Shantipath, New Delhi

Sub: Condemnation of the threat of USA attack on Iraq and plea for lifting the economicban to save the lives of starving children & women.

Sir,

We, the undersighned Advocates of the Supreme Court of India, vehemently state and protest asfollows:

(1) The proposed threat of U.S. attack on Iraq is ill-conceived and against the principle ofInternational law. The UN Charter sanctions the use offeree only in self-defence or ifthe Security Council decides that there is threat to world peace. Iraq has not attacked anybody since 1990 and no country other than the US and a handful of its acolytes believeits criticism of UN Special Commission's (UNSCOM) work amount to a threat to worldpeace. Existing Security Council resolutions do not constitute an open ended invitationfor any country to attack Iraq whenever it wants. Thus, the overwhelming majority ofthe world nations are against military operations.

(2) Despite seven years of intrusive operations by the UNSCOM, the USA continues toinsist that Iraq possesses hidden weapons of mass destruction. No evidence need benustered because the fact that weapons haven't yet been found is proof enough of theirexistence — that seems to be the logic of the President of the biggest democraticcountry of the world.

(3) A massive expeditionary force has been assembled in the Gulf and the Pentagon hasbegun boasting about a new generation of bombs which can penetrate up to four floorsof concrete before detonating. The US says Iraq has vast stockpiles of chemical andbacteriological weapons in underground vaults and that the new bombs will destroy the

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weapons without the threat of atmospheric fall out. But if Washington knows the precise

locations of these alleged stockpiles, why does it not call Iraq's bluff and ask for those

sites to be inspected by neutral experts including India? This would be a far more effective

and transparent way of Iraqscompliance with the terms of the Gulf War cease-fire.

(4) Iraq has rightly highlighted the over-representation of Anglo-American experts in

UNSCOM and rightly alleged that they are deliberately prolonging the inspection process

in order to ensure that trade sanction imposed on Iraq in 1990 are never lifted. President

Saddam Hussain has called for UNSCOM to be staffed by experts from neutral countries

and a firm deadline by which it should wrap up its work. This is a legitimate and just

demand which the USA, claiming to be champion of rule of law, ought to concede.

(5) The UNSCOM is functioning as both prosecutor and judge. President Clinton, as a

personal revenge, wants sanctions to continue until President Saddam Hussain quits or

is forced out of power (which is well nigh impossible because of massive public sympathy

at the national and international level). And UNSCOM chief Richard Butler is morethan happy to oblige. He, until recently, an Australian diplomat of modest accomplishment

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of a number of Security Council resolutions. The UN Security Council Resolution number242 dated 22/11/1967 (to withdraw from the Arab occupied territories), UNSC Resolution

numbers 338 dated 29/10/73, 340 dated 25/10/73 not to change the status quo of

Jerusalem, to vacate the Arab occupied territories, etc. have been flagrantly violated by

Israel, but no steps have been taken by the USA to execute these unanimously passed

resolutions. The number of resolutions passed by the UN General Assembly againstIsrael run in hundreds which have not been complied with. This is nuclear apartheid

which must be condemned in strongest possible terms. Mr Clinton's open declaration

that he shall attack Iraq even if there is no permission from the U N Security Council

turns the apprehension into belief that he wants to test his newly manufactured ultra

modren nuclear weapons on Iraqis as guinea pigs and then sell them in market onexhorbitant price. This act on the part of the USA is highly reprehensible.

There is starvation in Iraq. Thousands of children & women are dying every week for

want of medicines & other essential commodities. Iraq can't sell its own oil because ofunjustified prolonged economic sanction. The UN Charter as well as the American

Constitution recognise the right to life and privacy. The proposed inspection of President

Saddam Hussain's palaces amounts to attack on the right to privacy. Iraq's sovereignty

and independence must be maintained. The world body should not make a mockery of

itself.

Under the premises set forth above, we the undersigned appeal to your goodself to respect

and honour the world opinion and abandon the threat to attack Iraq, and instead, work

out a diplomatic solution and also to lift the economic ban in the name of humanity,

mankind and human rights or at least for the sake of thousands of starving and dying

Iraqi children & women and to avert a possible world war as cautioned by the great

champion of peace Mr. Boris Yeltsin.

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The following Advocates of the Supreme Court of India have signed and supportedthe accompanying Memorandum

1. Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad (Alig) 36.D -39, Abul Fazal Enclave 37.Jamia Nagar, New Delhi -25 38.Ph: 6311301 Fax: 6919076 39.

2. Mr. J.S. Manhas 40.

3. Mr. Manmohan Singh Gujral 41.4. Mr. K.C. Bajaj 42.5. Mr. A. Rein 43.6. Dr. (Mrs.) Aparana Bhardwaj 44.7. Ms. Sangeeta Kumar 45.

8. Mr. s. Prasad 46.

9. Mr. K. Sukumaran (Sr. Advocate) 47.10. Mr. R. Nedumaran 48.11. Mr. S. Sivasubramanian (Sr. Advocate) 49.12. Mr. L. C. Agrawala 50.13. Mr.N.P.Midha 51.14. Mr. A. S. Rawat 52.

15. Mr. Yatendra Sharma 53.16. Mr. Dhan Singh Nagar 54.17. Mr. M. A. Rehman 55.18. Mr. M. M. Kashyap 56.19. Mr. L.K.Gupta 57.20. Mr. Prabhat Kumar Yadav 58.

21. Mr. Zaki Ahmed Khan 59.22. Mr. R. Dwivedi 60.

23. Mr. R. S. Sharma 61.24. Mr. G.S. Bajwa 62.25. Mr. Mohd. Kazim Sher 63.

26. Mr. Prem Sunder Jha 64.27. Mr. Krishna Sharma 65.28. Mr. Ambhoj Kumar Sinha 66.

29. Mr. R.C. Verma 67.30. Mr. M. Musa 68.31. Mr. K.Kumar 69.32. Mr. Bawa Al Trehan 70.33. Mr. R. B. Aggarwal 71.34. Mr. B. B. Sinha 72.35. Mr. A. P. Singh 73.

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Mr. S.W. MisraMr. Mukesh K. GiriMr. Imtiaz AhmadMr. R.S. RanaMr. Ch. Shamsuddin

Mr. Ranjan NegiMr. IndeevarMr. Bhuvenashver Singh

Mr. L. N. GuptaMr. K.P. Singh

Mr. Sanjeev Das

Mr. D. MisraMr. J.P.N. SinghMs. Mamta GuptaMr. N. K. SahooMr. Rana Ranjeet SinghMr. Himansho MunshiMr. Mehmood PrachaMr. Saleem AhmedMr. Krishna Mohan ShuklaMr. Santosh SethiMr. K.S. AhluwaliaMr. Anil Kumar Jha

Mr. Pawan UpadhayMr. Aomraj DuttaMr. S.B. UpadhayMr. Renjeet SharmaMr. Binay Kumar DasMr. Vijayendra MisraMr. Subrat BirlaMr. Irshad AhmedMr. Ravi Prakash Srivastava

Mr. S.P. JhaMr. Suresh ChandMr. H.L. SrivastavaMr. Abinash KumarMr. Rajiv Shankar RayMr. V.K. Sidharthan

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Mr. Shambhu Prashad Singh

Mr. S.P. SinghMr. Anis SuhrawardyMr. Pardeep KomarMr. Anil Sharma

Mr. C.N.M. Popli

Mr. S.C. Sharma

Mr. Krishan Mahajan

Ms. Asha Jain Madan

Mr. K.G. Bhagat

Mr. Bhagwat GoelMs. Kusum Choudhary

Mr. Ashok K. Mahajan

Mr. D. K. Gupta

Ms. Rachna Srivastava

Mr. R. Gupta

Ms. Santosh Singh

Mr. R.B. HathendraMr. A.K. Agrawal

Ms. Omika Dubey

Ms. Alka Agrawal

Mr. Ashok Panda

Mr. Ujjal Singh

Mr. Shakeel AhmedMr. K. M.M. Khan

Mr. L.R. Singh

Mr. Amitesh Kumar

Mr. Naveen Chander

Mr. Vikas SinghMr. S. K. Bhattacharya

Mr.M.NabiMr. P.N. PuriMr. Kirpal Singh

Ms. Kalpana K. Tripathy

Mr. Vishal Malik

Ms. Renuka Sharma

Mr. Mansoor Ali

Mr. Shad Anwar

Mr. N. K. Aggarwal

114. Mr. Kunwar C.M. Khan

115. Mr. Shakeel Ahmed Syed116. Mr. A. Sharan117. Mr.V.A.Mohta118. Mr.N.N.Bhatt119. Mr. Anil Kumar

120. Mr. Anil Kumar Jha

121. Mr.S.C.Birla

122. Mr. M.N. Shroff

123. Mr. R.D. Upadhayay

124. Mr. Manoj Saxena125. Mr. P. Chowdhury

126. Mr. Madan Sharama

127. Mr. G. Seshagiri Rao

128. Mr. Aj ay Kumar Jain

129. Mr. S. Madhusudan Babu

130. Mr. Sajay

131. Mr. Rahat Choudhary132. Mr. Aj ay Choudhary

133. Mr. Pankaj Singh

134. Mr. Ashok Lavania

135. Mr. R.S. Jena

136. Mr. Rajesh Kanti Ray137. Ms. Shalini Choudhary138. Mr. Rakesh Upadhayay

139. Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma

140. Ms. Hema Sharma

141. Mr. Shrinath Singh142. Mr. Sanjeev Malhotra143. Mr. S.C. Sharma

144. Mr. A.K. Srivastava

145. Mr. Sivpujan Singh146. Mr. M.S. Dahiya

147. Mr. K.L. Vohra

148. -Mr. R.K. Shah

149. Mr. M.N. Tandon150. Mr. B.B. Dinkar

151. Mr.R.K.Kaura

152. Mr. S.s. Dahiya

153. Mr. Mir Akhtar Husain

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