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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>Draft Resolution to be submitted to Veterans for Peace annual meeting, August, 2016; asking for endorsement and comments for final draft by July 1.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>--John Lewallen 895-2996, <lewallen@mcn.org> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>Peace Conversion: Petition for a United Nations Peace Conversion Conference<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>Whereas, warfare is obsolete, and is destroying the human environment, slaughtering innocent people, exhausting the world economy, and generating tens of millions of desperate refugees; and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>Whereas, a worldwide military-industrial complex generates endless warfare;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>And Whereas, Peace Conversion of human economy and culture is essential for human survival;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>Therefore, Be It Resolved that Veterans for Peace endorses this Petition for a United Nations Peace Conversion Conference, encouraging everyone to sign and circulate this petition, and deliver it to leaders of the United Nations and all nations :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>Petition for a United Nations Peace Conversion</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'> Conference </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>We, the undersigned, ask the United Nations and all nations to organize a United Nations Peace Conversion Conference, to make practical plans to move away from warfare and military confrontation in international affairs, and phase out military industries, with an orderly transition to peaceful and sustainable production to meet the growing demands of climate change, and to meet basic human needs worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><br />
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