“This is a very precious moment in history, which must not be missed,” Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche wrote with urgency in a May 17 open letter addressed to the Governments of the United Nations, but also meant for action by all the peoples of the world.
In little more than a week, the United Nations Security Council, under the rotating chairmanship of China, will hold a special session on May 26 open to representatives of all United Nations members on “Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System.”
Zepp-LaRouche is urging that body to take up an integrated proposal of former Prime Minister of Türkiye Ahmet Davutoğlu’s outline for a “comprehensive regional framework” to bring sustainable peace to Southwest Asia, combined with Zepp-LaRouche’s Extended Oasis Plan for the physical economic development of each and every nation in the region—and thereafter, the world.
This approach was discussed and adopted at the May 15 EIR Emergency Roundtable, “The Iran War and the ‘Controlled Disintegration’ of the World Economy.” Speaking there, Professor Davutoğlu was more than emphatic in his support of Zepp-LaRouche’s approach: “I fully agree. The best way of peace is economic interdependency. There is no other way. You can sign peace plans, you can make many declarations, but the best way of peace is economic interdependency. Whenever you have economic interdependency, nobody will be starting a war. So, economic interdependency means development.”
“The world [is] at a historical branching point, where humanity can choose to go in one of two very different directions,” Zepp-LaRouche wrote. “The unprovoked and aggressive war against Iran, and its ensuing effects, has placed the Middle East at an impasse and threatens a potentially fatal escalation into a global economic depression or even global nuclear war.”
“At the same time, the meetings between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump in Beijing have opened the door to a new level of cooperation between the world’s two largest economies, creating an opportunity to implement an entirely different policy than that which created today’s crisis.”
Great historical changes do not require prolonged time to come about. They require decisive, concerted action around solution-concepts at those “precious moments in history” when a sea-change is possible. Over the next week, circulate Zepp-LaRouche’s open letter and organize around it from that standpoint.
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