Guest guest Posted July 25, 2000 Report Share Posted July 25, 2000 With the intense discussion about the Dalai Lama going on, I thought this email I received was interesting............ Alyssa ********************************************************************************\ ************************************************* Please consider to take action on this one below Sh0shanna Mon, 17 Jul 2000 PRINT & FAX....Dalai Lama not invited to UN Peace Summit... His Excellency, Mr. Kofi Annan The Secretary General United Nations New York, NY 10017 Fax: 212-963-4879 RE: The Millennium Peace Summit Your Excellency: I am ASTOUNDED to learn that the UN has organized a major conference of the world's spiritual leaders - the Millennium Peace Summit - but has refused to invite His Holiness the Dalai Lama for fear of offending the People's Republic of China. You must agree that it is a shame for the UN to organize this summit of spiritual leaders while failing to invite one of the most respected and revered spiritual leader on the planet and the winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize - His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Such a glaring and most apparent omission will cause people around the world to wonder about the true motives for this assembly. If the Dalai Lama is not invited to this summit, you must be aware that this will inevitably result in mass public protests and the unfavorable publicity which will surely follow will not be good for the Millennium Summit or the UN. If the UN is sincere about this Summit, then you MUST invite the Dalai Lama. Respectfully yours, I ALSO RECEIVED ANOTHER MORE DETAILED ONE ON THE SAME SUBJECT - THANKS JOACHIM! NJTouch Mon, 24 Jul 2000 Hello Jean... How are you... I hope well ! I wanted to forward to you the information below... You may find it appropriate to be included in the global vision newsletter... Love & Light Joachim J Becker http://community.nj.com/cc/NJHealingWeb ======== MEDIA RELEASE SHUTTING ITS DOORS ON THE DALAI LAMA: THE UN's MILLENNIUM PEACE SUMMIT OF SPIRITUAL LEADERS 1000 spiritual leaders have been invited to attend a four day conference at the United Nations in NYC from August 28-31st: the Millennium Peace Summit. For many religious leaders and human rights activists, the problem with this seemingly auspicious gathering is that His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, is glaringly missing from the list of invitees. What makes the omission of the Dalai Lama so remarkable is that he is one of the most respected spiritual leaders on the planet, as well as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, perhaps the greatest honor one can receive today. The Conference was organized by Bawa Jain, under the authority of UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, nominal director of the Summit. According to Trustees of the Parliament of World Religions (for which Bawa Jain is the International ambassador), Jain had said the Chinese government exerted great pressure on conference organizers against any invitation being sent to His Holiness. In an effort to explain away His Holiness not being invited, Jain had said UN protocol permitted any security council member to have veto power over any invitations being extended. The problem with that excuse is that according to the Protocol Office of the UN, no member nation has such power, and that responsibility lies instead with conference organizers. For many activists for religious freedom and human rights, and also for supporters of the Tibet cause, the perceived mistreatment of His Holiness by the UN reflects the UN's longstanding practice of ignoring human rights abuses in Tibet by the Chinese government, one of the five permanent members of the Security Council. (Since the invasion of Tibet in 1949 by the Chinese army, over one fifth of the Tibetan population have died under the Chinese occupation and more than 6000 monasteries have been destroyed.) Activists feel it also reflects the Chinese government's concerted campaign to oppose any invitation to His Holiness by any government or conference, anywhere around the world. The Parliament of World Religions, one of the major international interfaith organizations in the world, is issuing a statement this week, strongly critical of this snub to His Holiness and to the Tibetan people by organizers of the Millennium Summit. This is the first statement on any issue in the history of the Parliament, even more remarkable since the Parliament is itself a partner in the Millennium Summit. As news has been leaking out about His Holiness not being invited to this Summit, protest letters are pouring in from around the world to Kofi Annan, (Many of these letters have been posted on the internet and are accessible.) At this Millennium Summit, the spiritual leaders who attend are expected to issue a Declaration for World Peace and they're also supposed to form a permanent International Advisory Council of Spiritual and Religious Leaders. According to Brahma Das, Director of the Interfaith Call for Universal Religious Freedom, " Any Advisory Spiritual Council formed at this Summit will be severely devalued - due to the absence of His Holiness, and also from the lack of moral courage of Summit organizers in bowing to pressure and blandishments from the Chinese government. " According to Brother Wayne Teasdale, a Trustee of the Parliament of World Religions and the strongest critic within the Catholic Church of the Church's silence on Tibet, " By working to exclude the Dalai Lama from this conference, the Chinese will accomplish exactly the opposite of what they hoped. They wanted no attention to the Chinese issue. Instead the whole world will be watching and thinking about His Holiness. And now for the religious and spiritual leaders of the world, Tibet is a test of whether they can exercise and demonstrate their moral authority and leadership. " PETITION SUPPORTING THE INCLUSION OF HIS HOLINESS, THE DALAI LAMA AT THE MILLENNIUM PEACE SUMMIT OF WORLD SPIRITUAL LEADERS AT THE UNITED NATIONS We, the Undersigned, strongly protest the exclusion of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, from the Millennium Peace Summit of Spiritual leaders - being held at the UN from August 28th-31st. The ones primarily responsible for this Summit (UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Bawa Jain) should find the moral courage to stand up against Chinese pressure and inducements; they should reverse their earlier decision and invite His Holiness - one of the most revered spiritual leaders on the planet as well as a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate - to this gathering for peace of spiritual and religious leaders........ To sign this petition, send your name, address, professional title if appropriate and your email address to: BrahmaDas Tell your friends and send this on to whomever you feel would be supportive about this. You can also direct them to the spiritwalk bulletin board, http://www.spiritwalk.org/bulletin.htm Thank you for your support in this. PEACE Roger Ebsen Spiritwalk * * * * * * * * * * * Come visit Alyssa and Jimmy at Message In A Bottle http://www.geocities.com/~asiah Jimmy's Art http://www.geocities.com/chazrh/ " If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. " -Francis of Assisi Get Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2000 Report Share Posted July 25, 2000 maybe they are not inviting hypocrites! Bliss Alyssa <alyssa71 Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:04:24 -0700 (PDT) " Dalai Lama " Discussion--Interesting > > With the intense discussion about the Dalai Lama going on, I thought this email I received was interesting............ > > Alyssa > > ********************************************************************************\ ************************************************* > > Please consider to take action on this one below > > Sh0shanna > Mon, 17 Jul 2000 > PRINT & FAX....Dalai Lama not invited to UN Peace Summit... > > His Excellency, Mr. Kofi Annan > The Secretary General > United Nations > New York, NY 10017 > > Fax: 212-963-4879 > > RE: The Millennium Peace Summit > > Your Excellency: > > I am ASTOUNDED to learn that the UN has organized a major conference of > the > world's spiritual leaders - the Millennium Peace Summit - but has > refused to > invite His Holiness the Dalai Lama for fear of offending the People's > Republic of China. > > You must agree that it is a shame for the UN to organize this summit > of spiritual leaders while failing to invite one of the most respected > and > revered spiritual leader on the planet and the winner of the 1989 Nobel > Peace Prize - His Holiness the Dalai Lama. > > Such a glaring and most apparent omission will cause people around the > world > to wonder about the true motives for this assembly. If the > Dalai Lama is not invited to this summit, you must be aware that this > will inevitably result in mass public protests and the unfavorable > publicity > which will surely follow will not be good for the Millennium Summit or > the UN. > > If the UN is sincere about this Summit, then you MUST invite the Dalai > Lama. > > Respectfully yours, > > > I ALSO RECEIVED ANOTHER MORE DETAILED ONE ON THE SAME SUBJECT - THANKS > JOACHIM! > > NJTouch > Mon, 24 Jul 2000 > > Hello Jean... > > How are you... I hope well ! > > I wanted to forward to you the information below... You may find it > appropriate to be included in the global vision newsletter... > > Love & Light > > Joachim J Becker > http://community.nj.com/cc/NJHealingWeb > > ======== > > MEDIA RELEASE > > SHUTTING ITS DOORS ON THE DALAI LAMA: > THE UN's MILLENNIUM PEACE SUMMIT OF SPIRITUAL LEADERS > > 1000 spiritual leaders have been invited to attend a four day > conference at > the United Nations in NYC from August 28-31st: the Millennium Peace > Summit. > > For many religious leaders and human rights activists, the problem with > this > seemingly auspicious gathering is that His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, is > glaringly missing from the list of invitees. > > What makes the omission of the Dalai Lama so remarkable is that he is > one of > the most respected spiritual leaders on the planet, as well as a Nobel > Peace > Prize laureate, perhaps the greatest honor one can receive today. > > The Conference was organized by Bawa Jain, under the authority of UN > Secretary General, Kofi Annan, nominal director of the Summit. > According to > Trustees of the Parliament of World Religions (for which Bawa Jain is > the > International ambassador), Jain had said the Chinese government exerted > great > pressure on conference organizers against any invitation being sent to > His > Holiness. In an effort to explain away His Holiness not being invited, > Jain > had said UN protocol permitted any security council member to have veto > power > over any invitations being extended. The problem with that excuse is > that > according to the Protocol Office of the UN, no member nation has such > power, > and that responsibility lies instead with conference organizers. > > For many activists for religious freedom and human rights, and also for > supporters of the Tibet cause, the perceived mistreatment of His > Holiness by > the UN reflects the UN's longstanding practice of ignoring human rights > abuses in Tibet by the Chinese government, one of the five permanent > members > of the Security Council. (Since the invasion of Tibet in 1949 by the > Chinese > army, over one fifth of the Tibetan population have died under the > Chinese > occupation and more than 6000 monasteries have been destroyed.) > > Activists feel it also reflects the Chinese government's concerted > campaign > to oppose any invitation to His Holiness by any government or > conference, > anywhere around the world. > > The Parliament of World Religions, one of the major international > interfaith > organizations in the world, is issuing a statement this week, strongly > critical of this snub to His Holiness and to the Tibetan people by > organizers > of the Millennium Summit. This is the first statement on any issue in > the > history of the Parliament, even more remarkable since the Parliament is > itself a partner in the Millennium Summit. > > As news has been leaking out about His Holiness not being invited to > this > Summit, protest letters are pouring in from around the world to Kofi > Annan, > (Many of these letters have been posted on the internet and are > accessible.) > > At this Millennium Summit, the spiritual leaders who attend are > expected to > issue a Declaration for World Peace and they're also supposed to form a > permanent International Advisory Council of Spiritual and Religious > Leaders. > > According to Brahma Das, Director of the Interfaith Call for Universal > Religious Freedom, " Any Advisory Spiritual Council formed at this > Summit will > be severely devalued - due to the absence of His Holiness, and also > from the > lack of moral courage of Summit organizers in bowing to pressure and > blandishments from the Chinese government. " > > According to Brother Wayne Teasdale, a Trustee of the Parliament of > World > Religions and the strongest critic within the Catholic Church of the > Church's > silence on Tibet, " By working to exclude the Dalai Lama from this > conference, > the Chinese will accomplish exactly the opposite of what they hoped. > They > wanted no attention to the Chinese issue. Instead the whole world will > be > watching and thinking about His Holiness. And now for the religious and > spiritual leaders of the world, Tibet is a test of whether they can > exercise > and demonstrate their moral authority and leadership. " > > > PETITION SUPPORTING THE INCLUSION OF HIS HOLINESS, THE DALAI LAMA AT > THE > MILLENNIUM PEACE SUMMIT OF WORLD SPIRITUAL LEADERS AT THE UNITED > NATIONS > > > We, the Undersigned, strongly protest the exclusion of His Holiness, > the > Dalai Lama, from the Millennium Peace Summit of Spiritual leaders - > being > held at the UN from August 28th-31st. The ones primarily responsible > for > this Summit (UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Bawa Jain) should find > the > moral courage to stand up against Chinese pressure and inducements; > they > should reverse their earlier decision and invite His Holiness - one of > the > most revered spiritual leaders on the planet as well as a Nobel Peace > Prize > Laureate - to this gathering for peace of spiritual and religious > leaders........ > > To sign this petition, send your name, address, professional title if > appropriate and your email address to: BrahmaDas > > Tell your friends and send this on to whomever you feel would be > supportive > about this. You can also direct them to the spiritwalk bulletin > board, > http://www.spiritwalk.org/bulletin.htm > > Thank you for your support in this. > > PEACE > > Roger Ebsen > Spiritwalk > > * * * * * * * * * * * Come visit Alyssa and Jimmy at > Message In A Bottle http://www.geocities.com/~asiah > Jimmy's Art http://www.geocities.com/chazrh/ > " If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. " > -Francis of Assisi > > > > > > > > Get Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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