Handout for 4/6/22 Vets for Peace Chapter 099 Vigil

 
Statement of Purpose
1.To increase public awareness of the causes and costs of war.
2.To restrain our governments from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations.
3.To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons.
4.To seek justice for veterans and victims of war.
 5.To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.

From the VFP Website:  Preventing Famine and Rescinding Executive Order on Afghanistan’s frozen funds

Veterans For Peace joins Afghans For a Better Tomorrow and many other organizations in calling for Afghanistan's funds to be unfrozen and directed back to Afghanistan.  
Just over half of the Afghan population, almost 23 million Afghans, are facing acute food insecurity this winter. One million Afghan children are at risk of dying from malnutrition and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has warned that if no concrete action is taken, almost 97% of the country's population will plunge into poverty. UN Secretary-General Guterres recently stated.
We urge the Administration to rescind the executive order released on February 11th and designate the entire $7.1 billion in Afghan reserves, mostly held at the Federal Bank of New York, to be used for the purposes of injecting liquidity and stabilization of the Afghan economy to prevent additional humanitarian crises.




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