CALL FOR NEW FEDERAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
Former President James R. Mancham said that “the time has come to start thinking about the need for the world to be ruled under a federal system of government which will embrace all nations. As and when this materialises, there will be only one currency, one army and it will be easier to deal more efficiently with problems like Global Warming, HIV/Aids and other disasters threatening humanity.”
Mr Mancham was delivering a keynote address at a welcome dinner hosting some 90 world global leaders attending the launching of the World Future Council at the Mandarin Hotel du Rhône in Geneva on Sunday 21st, May 2006. In this respect he was fully supported by Mr Olivier Giscard d’Estaing, brother of France’s former president Valery Giscard d’Estaing who is himself well known in Europe as the founder of INSEAD and as promoter of a movement for an international parliament.
The World Future Council is the joint initiative of Jakob Von Uexküll, a former member of the European Parliament and professor Herbert Girardet of the universities of Northumbria, Middlesex and West of England. Von Uexküll has a distinguished past having been not only a member of the European Parliament but also a former trustee of the New Economics Foundation, a patron of Friends of the Earth International and a member of the Global Commission to fund the United Nations. He also served on the board of Greenpeace and is actually a member of the Council of Governance of Transparence International. Professor Girardet is patron of the Soil Association and a UN Global 500 Award. Receipient. He has written 8 books and has produced over 50 TV documentaries on Sustainable Development.
The World Future Council yesterday ended its three day conference by unanimously adopting a resolution to constitute the WFC as a body that will create a trusted, long-term voice that will speak up for future generations; that will build an integrated global forum based on shared ethical values, overcoming action gaps by linking moral authority with democracy and power.
In the concluding address to the gallery, Judge C. G. Weeramantry of Sri Lanka – former vice president of the International Court of Justice said that “Launching the FWC was most timely.” He endorsed Mr Mancham’s idea that the world should start thinking about falling under 1 federal constitution and said that “a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step”, adding that “we must aim for the sky to get above the trees”.
