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39422
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 21:25
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RI CIVIL SOCIETY MEMBERS URGE UN TO STOP ISRAELI ATTACKS
Jakarta, Jan 7 (ANTARA) - Some 100 civilian figures coordinated by the Indonesian Civil Society (Masyarakat Madani Indonesia) came to the United Nations representative's office here Wednesday to urge the UN to call a halt to Israeli military attacks on Palestine.
They also asked the UN to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestine and encourage dialogue between Israel and Palestine to solve their conflict permanently.
The head of the UN representative's office in Indonesia, El Mostafa Benlamih, who met the demonstators, expressed appreciation for their appeals and promised to pass them on directly to the UN secretary general in New York.
Benlamih also said the UN shared the demonstrators' concerns and was trying to make all possible efforts to stop the Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip while calling for a dialogue to settle the conflict.
The UN official said the war in the Gaza Strip was not one between two religions but a political conflict that had gone beyond the norms of humanitarian propriety.
Din Syamsuddin, chairman of Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization in Indonesia Muhammadiyah, who acted as the demonstrators' spokesman, said it was high time for the UN to play an important role to solve the confict in Palestine.
"This is a momentum for the UN to prove its existence. If the UN fails to do so, it will be abandoned and seen as being a mere tool of certain countries," he said.
"This war has exceeded the limits of humanitarian propriety since women and children have also become victims," another demonstrator, Prof Komarudin Hidayat, rector of the State Islamic University, said.
Among the civilian figures who took part in the action at the UN representative's office were also AM Fatwa (People's Consultative Assembly vice chairman), Romo Beny (Catholic priest), Moeryati Soedibyo (Regional Representatives Council member), Mukhlis Yusuf (ANTARA News Agency's chief executive officer), Rhoma Irama (artist) as well as other figures from political parties, intellectuals and the media.
They also asked the UN to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestine and encourage dialogue between Israel and Palestine to solve their conflict permanently.
The head of the UN representative's office in Indonesia, El Mostafa Benlamih, who met the demonstators, expressed appreciation for their appeals and promised to pass them on directly to the UN secretary general in New York.
Benlamih also said the UN shared the demonstrators' concerns and was trying to make all possible efforts to stop the Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip while calling for a dialogue to settle the conflict.
The UN official said the war in the Gaza Strip was not one between two religions but a political conflict that had gone beyond the norms of humanitarian propriety.
Din Syamsuddin, chairman of Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization in Indonesia Muhammadiyah, who acted as the demonstrators' spokesman, said it was high time for the UN to play an important role to solve the confict in Palestine.
"This is a momentum for the UN to prove its existence. If the UN fails to do so, it will be abandoned and seen as being a mere tool of certain countries," he said.
"This war has exceeded the limits of humanitarian propriety since women and children have also become victims," another demonstrator, Prof Komarudin Hidayat, rector of the State Islamic University, said.
Among the civilian figures who took part in the action at the UN representative's office were also AM Fatwa (People's Consultative Assembly vice chairman), Romo Beny (Catholic priest), Moeryati Soedibyo (Regional Representatives Council member), Mukhlis Yusuf (ANTARA News Agency's chief executive officer), Rhoma Irama (artist) as well as other figures from political parties, intellectuals and the media.
