{"article":{"id":30407,"heading":"France's UN office inundated with fan mail","author":"repost","created":"2003-02-20 07:10:32","modified":"2013-11-10 23:48:38","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:48:38","article":"
E-Mail Floods France's UN Office After Iraq Plea
Tue Feb 18, 4:38 PM
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France's U.N. Mission was flooded with electronic
fan mail after Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin urged the Security Council
to \"give peace a chance\" in Iraq, French officials said Tuesday.
Some 5,000 e-mails -- overwhelmingly favorable and the vast majority from
Americans -- were logged Friday, the day de Villepin delivered a speech
stressing that use of force was not justified at this time against Baghdad, the
officials said.
Another 12,000 messages were received over the weekend, the officials said.
While President Bush has warned that time was running out for Baghdad to
dispose of any weapons of mass destruction, de Villepin drew a rare burst of
applause from the Security Council gallery when he said U.N. inspections were
showing results and force was not yet justified.
\"What is at stake here is war and peace and our common responsibility,\" de
Villepin said. \"We are willing to try to give peace a chance.\"
The responses included:
-- \"I have watched France's foreign minister's speech yesterday at the U.N.
Security Council and was very proud of France's position which was based on
principles,\" wrote a man from Irvine, California.
-- \"Merci merci merci. Thank you thank you. Remain firm. Continue to oppose
the Bush administration. PLEASE!\" a Los Angeles woman wrote. The letters
were shown to Reuters on condition their authors would not be identified.
-- \"THANK YOU for your courage and conscience in opposing the war criminals
of Washington. Your hard work will make all of us safer in the long run. Hold fast
just a little longer,\" wrote a man from Elora, Tennessee.
-- \"Please stand strong and do not allow the United Nations to be used as a
puppet for my so-called government,\" wrote a Chicago, Illinois, man.
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UN CONTACT INFO:
5 PERMANENT MEMBERS
Britain, China, France, Russian Federation, United States
5 NON-PERMANENT MEMBERS SERVING UNTIL THE END OF 2003
Bulgaria, Cameroon, Guinea, Mexico, Syria
5 NON-PERMANENT MEMBERS SERVING UNTIL THE END OF 2004
Angola, Chile, Germany, Pakistan, Spain
Secretary-General Kofi Annan
UN Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212 963-4475
Fax: 212 963-7055
DELEGATION OF FRANCE TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL
Telephone : (212) 308-5700
(24 hours a day, every day)
Main Fax : (212) 421-6889
Fax Political Division : (212) 207-8765
E-mail :
GERMANY: PRESIDENCY OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL IN FEBRUARY 2003
871 United Nations Plaza
(First Ave. betw. 48th & 49th Streets)
New York NY 10017
Tel: (212) 940-0400
Fax: (212) 940-0402
E-mail:
Ambassador Alfonso Aguilar Zinser
PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MEXICO TO THE UNITED NATIONS
Two United Nations Plaza 28th floor, New York, NY 10017.
Tel: (212) 752.0220 \/ Fax (212) 688.8862
Correo electrónico:
Ambassador Munir Akram
PERMANENT MISSION OF PAKISTAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS
8 East, 65th Street New York, NY 10021
Tel: 212-879-8600
Fax 212-744-7348
E-mail
Ambassador Munir Akram
Tel (212-879-8600): Ext: 127
PERMANENT MISSION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION TO THE UNITED
NATIONS
136 East 67 Street, New York, N.Y. 10021
Phone: (212) 861-4900; 861-4901; 861-4902
Fax: (212) 628-0252
PERMANENT MISSION OF SPAIN TO THE UNITED NATIONS.
823 United Nations Plaza, 9th floor New York, NY 10017
Phone (212) 661 1050
Fax (212) 949 7247
Military and Peacekeeping issues:
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent
Representative to the United Nations:
BRITAIN AT THE UNITED NATIONS
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
28th Floor
885 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Tel: (212) 745 9250
Fax: (212) 745 9316
E-mail
S.E. Dr. Ismael Gaspar Martins
PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA TO THE UNITED
NATIONS
125 East 73rd St. New York, N.Y. 10021
Tel: (212) 861-5656
Fax (2l2) 861-9295
E-mail:
H.E. Mr. Ismael Gaspar Martins
Mr. Stefan Tafrov
REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA PERMANENT MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS
11 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
phone (212) 737-4790
fax (212) 472-9865
E-mail:
Mr. Martin Belinga-Eboutou
PERMANENT MISSION OF CAMEROON TO THE UNITED NATIONS
22 East 73rd Street
New York, NY 10021
U.S.A.
Téléphone : +1(212)-794-2296
Fax : +1 (212)-249-0533
E-mail :
PERMANENT MISSION OF CHINA TO THE UNITED NATIONS
350 East 35th Street
New York, NY 10016
E-Mail:
Fax: 212-634-7625
H.E. Mr. WANG Yingfan
Permanent Representative
212-655-6191(O)
Embajador Juan Gabriel Valdés
PERMANENT MISSION OF CHILE TO THE UNITED NATIONS
305 East 47th Street 10th Floor
New York, NY 10017 USA
Phone (212) 832 3323
Fax (212) 832 0236
E-mail:
Mamady Traore
PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE REPUBLIC OF GUINEA TO THE
UNITED NATIONS
140 East 39th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016
Telephone: (212) 687-8115\/8116\/81
fax: (212) 687-8248
E-mail:
PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC TO THE
UNITED NATIONS
820 Second Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 661-1313, Telefax: (212) 983-4439
E-mail:
Send TAHANKS via this petition
by Peaceful Yank 12:11pm Thu Feb 13 '03
You can send thanks on this form
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