Rawlings calls for global political responsibility

Former President Jerry John Rawlings called for a culture of global political responsibility to end the wave of impunity displayed by some states.

He said the key to mobilizing any denigrated group for an honest and shared existence is through transparency of leadership and empowerment of all.

Lieutenant Rawlings made the call when he delivered a speech at the World Peace Federation (UPF) World Summit in Seoul, South Korea, last Saturday.

The former president also called on the United States to find a better way to propagate the cause of justice or democracy, stating that there was a time when America had the same problem. image of a liberating country, but recently, his approach negates this positive image and portrays it. as an aggressor.

Citing goals 16 and 17 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the former President stated that the goals were to promote sustainable development, provide access to justice and build effective and efficient institutions. officials.

The former president stressed that setting partnership goals would be impossible if "we do not face the challenges of the current global political climate and the lack of international political morality".

Political morality

"How do we engender peace and security as some of the same forces seeking to impose their moral compbad suffer a serious decline in international political morality?", S & # 39; s questioned former president Rawlings.

Former President Rawlings said Israel's actions in Palestine, against Iran and Syria, as well as Saudi's unusual actions against Shiites and Yemen were clearly an abuse and abuse of relations with Israel. United States.

"The cruelty to which Yemenis are subjected would have been described as ethnic cleansing if it had been perpetrated by other warmongering parties," said the former president.

Lieutenant Rawlings said that when the cold war ended, the world was convinced that tensions before the thaw would give way to a real play, global prosperity and a common vision of humanity, but endless conflicts, many of which would involve the same actors would be opinion leaders, rather characterized the period.

The role of the United Nations was also closely scrutinized when the former president stated that the body created in direct response to the most violent conflict in the history of humanity was unable to put an end to the most fundamental negatives of the main Member States.

The former president said that the time had come to make the voices of the nations voiceless, beaten and looted. "It's time to draw a hard line in the sand and make our numbers count," he said.

Laurent Gbagbo

Speaking of the recent decisions of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on former Ghanian leader Laurent Gbagbo described the prosecutor's decision to call the appeal as "bizarre and unscrupulous" after "no credible evidence was found ".

"Oddly, the ICC prosecutor, who is clearly acting under the dictates of embarrbaded powers, decides to shamelessly appeal and restrain Gbagbo's freedom again. How can you send him to another country with deformed bail conditions that effectively make him prisoner and prevent him from traveling freely abroad, including returning to his own country? Asked Rawlings.

Laurent Gbagbo

Former President Rawlings also drew attention to the situation in Cameroon and asked why France, the United States, the United Kingdom and other allies seemed oblivious to the appalling situation in the African country.

The world will see peace "if we learn to speak as a people. Now is the time to stop hiding behind economic and political vulnerabilities. Some privileged people can not afford to submit a majority to submission when they stand up to tell the truth and defend the ideals of a true responsibility before all the peoples of the world, "said the l & # 39; former president.