NEW DELHI, Aug 10: Showering great honours on the prime minister Narendra Modi, the Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said he was planning to submit a written proposal to the United Nations to create a three-member commission to keep peace in the world with Modi as one of its members.
Obrador at a press conference sad he would make the proposal to the UN in writing to constitute a commission made up of three world leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to promote a world truce for a period of five years.
“I will make the proposal in writing, I will present it to the UN. I have been saying it and I hope the media will help us to spread it, Obrador said. The Mexican President proposed that the top commission should include Pope Francis, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, and Modi.
The aim of the commission would be to present a proposal to stop the wars around the world and reach an agreement to seek a truce for at least five years. “The three of them meet and soon present a proposal to stop the war everywhere, and reach an agreement to seek a truce of at least five years, so that governments around the world dedicate themselves to support their peoples, especially the people who are suffering the most from the war and its effects; that we have five years without tension, without violence and with peace,” he said.
Calling for an end to warlike actions, the Mexican President has invited China, Russia and the United States, to seek peace and hoped the three countries “will listen and accept an intermediation such as the one we are proposing.” “Tell them, by their confrontations, in nothing more than a year, they have caused this. They have precipitated the world economic crisis, they have increased inflation and caused food shortages, more poverty and, worst of all, in one year, because of the confrontations, so many human beings have lost their lives. That is a paragraph. That’s what they have done in one year,” he said.
According to Obrador, the proposed truce would facilitate “reaching agreements in the case of Taiwan, Israel and Palestine, and not be promoting, provoking more confrontation.” Furthermore, he urged that all the governments around the world should join in support of the UN and not the bureaucratic mechanism in which proposals and initiatives are presented.
(Manas Dasgupta)