malaysia
June 08 , 2006 10:06AM
PEACE FORUM ON THREAT OF WW4 ON JUNE 21, 22
PUTRAJAYA, June 8 (Bernama) -- A peace forum themed "Criminalise War. Stop World War Four (WW4) - The Coming of Nuclear Wars" will be held on June 21 and 22 to discuss the threat of such a war on humanity.
The event is organised by the Perdana Global Peace Organisation headed by former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad who is also the honorary president of the Perdana Leadership Foundation.
"We feel that there is now a need to hold another forum as a follow-up to last year's Global Peace Forum, simply because of the very real threat of a Fourth World War," he told a news conference here Wednesday.
Dr Mahathir said WW4 was the term used by a number of prominent people who considered that the Third World War was the Cold War and any new war would be the Fourth World War which might involve the use of nuclear weapons.
"This threat is very real in the eyes of a lot of experts from the United States and Canada. So we will be bringing these people here. From their investigations, they feel that the threat is very real, that certainly WW4 has already begun," he said.
He noted that they already assumed that the present conflicts in countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and so on were part of this WW4
."Maybe this is an alarmist view, maybe we think that they are too gullible or whatever. But the fact is that they have a lot of evidence, statements made by leaders in the countries which have nuclear weapons.
"They are convinced that nuclear weapons will be used, may be not immediately but they will be used, and that WW4 is already on," said Dr Mahathir.
He went on to say that unless something is done, "that war is going to spread from Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine to Iran. And we don't know where it will go from there."
On June 21, a panel discussion and dialogue session will be held at the Perdana Leadership Foundation in Precinct 8 here, and the next day the event moves on to the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) in Kuala Lumpur.
Dr Mahathir is scheduled to deliver a keynote address before a public lecture themed "The Middle East Agenda: Oil, Dollar Hegemony and Islam" takes place.
Meanwhile, Dr Mahathir, who played a role in bringing Myanmar into the Asean fold, was asked about his views regarding developments in that country where democratic progress has been slow.
"I am very disappointed because what we did was we invited the leaders to come here, we showed them how democracy works in Malaysia, we even told them how the military can become one of the parties contesting in the elections."They listened but apparently they did not want to do anything," he said.
-- BERNAMA
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