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Nope!!!

It is disrespect for the international community by a
country which has arrogated to itself the powers of world
policing, preaching human rights, rule of law and democracy
but puts itself above the laws of the international
community and therefore resorts to intimidation and
coercion of other countries for support of laws that will
help in perpetuating its political agenda.

They are forcing other countries especially in the so
called third world to pass anti-terrorist laws which are in
gross violation of the human rights of the citizens of
these countries.

This is morally improper and I believe what is good for the
goose is equally good for the gander.
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Thanks for letting us know that West African Peacekeepers
have entered Monrovia and are being cheered and welcome by
all and sundry resulting in the handing over of power by
President Taylor to his Vice President Moses Blah. I
believe this is what President Taylor has been asking for
the past month or so. You do not sit in the comforts of
your bedroom and ask the President of another Sovereign
Nation to resign and leave his country at war while the
necessary machinery is not in place.

I hope you have all heard or read that America has sent
seven (7) PEACEKEEPERS to Liberia???????

Hurray!!! finally, we have American Peacekeepers in Liberia
indeed.


Joe



On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 14:37:48 -0400
 "Wilmot B. Valhmu" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The almighty dollar speaks, doesn't it?
>
> - Wilmot
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:38:32 -0500
>  Dzigbodi Akyea <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >General News of Thursday, 07 August 2003
> >
> >USA Threatens Ghana
> > The US government has given Ghana up to November 1,
> >2003, to ratify its
> >Bilateral Non-Surrender Agreement (BNSA) or risk being
> >cut off from US
> >military assistance.
> >
> >The ultimatum to Ghana is part of a world-wide campaign
> >being waged by
> >Washington to compel countries with little or no
> backbone
> >to accept its fiat
> >to grant blanket immunity to all US service personnel
> >from prosecution under
> >the International Criminal Court for war crimes or
> crimes
> >against humanity.
> >
> >Information reaching The Heritage from the
> >Parliamentarians for Global
> >Action (PGA), a network of over 1,350 Members of
> >Parliament from 105 elected
> >national legislatures, indicate that the cut-off in
> >military assistance from
> >the US is the penalty being applied by Washington to
> >states rejecting the
> >BNSA.
> >
> >The agreement, which under the US law is called American
> >Service Members
> >Protection Act (Article 98) of August 2, 2002, also
> >allows the US President
> >to issue waivers to countries that are allied with the
> US
> >or countries for
> >which the national interest of the US could be at stake.
> >
> >The PGA, citing White House memo dated July 1, 2003,
> said
> >Ghana received a
> >presidential waiver for "reasons of national interest"
> on
> >that date valid
> >until November 1, 2003.
> >
> >According to the PGA, if the Parliament of Ghana fails
> to
> >ratify the
> >agreement by that date, she might be sanctioned with a
> >cut-off in US
> >military assistance, unless otherwise determined by the
> >US President.
> >
> >The authoritative French News Agency, Agence France
> Press
> >(AFP) disseminated
> >information on May 2, 2003 that the BNSA agreement had
> >been signed between
> >Ghana and the US in early May.
> >
> >It said in early May 2003, other news agencies were
> >reporting that the US
> >State Department had communicated to the media a list of
> >countries that had
> >signed the BNSA against the ICC. The list, according to
> >the AFP, included
> >Ghana.
> >
> >"We inferred that the signature of such an agreement has
> >been done silently
> >- almost secretly - maybe because Ghana was the fifth
> >nation of the world to
> >join the 'ICC Club' of the law-abiding states in 1999
> >through a Bipartisan
> >Agreement", the PGA stated in documents sent to The
> >Heritage.
> >
> >It added that, "the Government of Ghana might have
> >therefore feared the
> >shameful effect of a public declaration that Ghana caved
> >in to US pressures
> >against the court".
> >
> >The PGA, which is engaged in a wide range of
> >action-oriented initiatives
> >that promote democracy, peace, justice and development
> >throughout the world,
> >disclosed that on July 1 this year, the US suspended
> more
> >than $47 million
> >in military aid to 35 countries for their failure or
> >refusal to give US
> >citizens immunity from prosecution by the tribunal,
> which
> >Washington
> >vehemently opposes.
> >
> >It said the US fears the ICC - the world's first
> >permanent international
> >court to try cases of war crimes, crimes against
> humanity
> >and genocide -
> >could become a forum for politically-motivated
> >prosecutions of US citizens.
> >
> >"Because the agreements are controversial, eight
> >countries including Ghana,
> >have asked that they be kept secret", according to the
> >PGA documents.
> >
> >Ghanaian authorities have been tight-lipped over the
> >deal. When contacted,
> >an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the
> >sector Minister had
> >instructed that all inquiries on the subject must be
> >re-directed to the
> >Defence Minister. This was after The Heritage had made
> >marathon phone calls
> >over a two-day period to the Ministry of Foreign
> Affairs.
> >
> >A questionnaire subsequently sent to and duly received
> at
> >the Ministry of
> >Defence was said to have mysteriously vanished at the
> >office of the Minister
> >of Defence at Burma Camp.
> >
> >Meanwhile, International Relations experts stress that
> >the BNSA agreement,
> >if ratified, will have far-reaching implications for
> both
> >Ghana and the ICC.
> >
> >According to them, the ratification of such a bilateral
> >agreement may limit
> >the court's effectiveness, which might lead to states
> >neglecting their
> >responsibility to co-operate fully with it.
> >
> >For Ghana, it means one of the first countries to sign
> >the Rome Treaty that
> >set up the ICC and has "Freedom and Justice" as her
> >national motto, would
> >have reneged on her international obligations to ensure
> >justice.
> >
> >Source: The Heritage
> >
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