The Freethought Party organised a seminar on the topic — “The UN is Inadequate: It should go; it should be replaced by a World Government and World Parliament on the lines of Switzerland,” on the occasion of the 70th UN Day at the lohia Academy here on Saturday.
Since the United Nations (UN) has miserably failed on the disarmament front and, therefore, national military budgets have been skyrocketing all from 1945 and the UN has done nothing with regard to the spread of democratic ideas and commitment to human rights in countries ruled by authoritarian regimes. The time has come for the entire mankind to work wholeheartedly for the establishment of World Government and World Parliament on the lines of the Swiss Politico-Electoral system, speakers discussed.
Former editor of The Khabar Prof Biswaranjan chaired the meeting. The Seminar was addressed by former Finance Minister Panchanan Kanungo, Retired IAS Suresh Chandra Mantry, Dr Adikanda Sahu, Odisha Rationalist Society president Prof Dhaneswar Sahu, columnist Sugyan Choudhury, Prof Bijayananda Kar, Prof Sudhakar Jally, Odisha Nagarik Samaj president Prof J Parikhit, SK Abdul Wali, Debadarshi Nayak etc.
General Secretary of the Party B Ramachandra CST Voltaire presented a paper that listed 10 valid arguments for which the UN should be replaced by World Government and World Parliament in the earliest to prevent Global Warming and to ensure total elimination of lethal weapons and disbanding of all national armies.
The guests displayed the photos of great personalities like Bertrand Russel, JS Mill and Voltaire to push the idea of World Government. They also exhibited photos of the three-year-old kid Alyan Kurdi of Syria who died while escaping in sea water and the photos of Dr MM Kalburgi and Md Akhlaq, who were killed because of intolerance of views and ways of life.