Rael supports request by India's Modi for U.N. Security Council reform
DELHI, Sept. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Rael, founder and spiritual leader of the International Raelian Movement (IRM) today issued a statement expressing his support for a call to reform the U.N. Security Council by granting India permanent member status. He also praised India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, who demanded the reform in a speech made last week at the U.N. General Assembly.
"Prime Minister Modi is absolutely right; India should have a permanent seat," Rael declared in today's statement. "How can India, with 1.2 billion citizens, not be a permanent member of the Security Council when dwarf countries like France and the United Kingdom are? Each of those countries has only around 65 million inhabitants, meaning they represent approximately 20 times fewer people [than India]."
Rael said the only possible explanation for such an extreme lack of proportional representation is "Western imperialism and colonialism"!
"This situation is totally unacceptable," he said. He then drew a parallel between the non-proportional representation on the Security Council and the U.N.'s continued failure to replace the Christian calendar with a secular one.
"Unless the U.N. changes the current calendar to one that's unrelated to any religious or philosophical group, all non-Western nations should quit the U.N. and create a more democratic organization," he said. "If democracy has any value, each country should have a vote proportional to its population, and a non-religious calendar should be adopted [to replace the old one]."
Rael also expressed his support for comments made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the same U.N. General Assembly meeting in which Mori called for Security Council reform. Echoing Mori, Lavrov pointed out that nations are not considered equal at the United Nations.
"The U.S.-led, Western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights in individual countries, is acting in the international arena from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad," Lavrov said.
In his own statement today, Rael went further.
"It's time to dismantle the United Nations, which is a puppet of Western neocolonialism and imperialism," Rael said.
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