THE GULF WAR: The International Front : Words on the War
“Many of us ask why this solidarity against aggression did not present itself previously when small and weak nations were attacked. . . . What would have happened if Kuwait had been covered with banana plantations, coffee farms or sugar estates, rather than oil wells? Now the great industrial powers rely upon international law to defend the independence of a country whose oil wealth is of interest to them.
“The ethical foundations of these rights must be sufficiently universal to guarantee their equal application whenever a nation attempts to . . . subjugate another.”
-- OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ, former president of Costa Rica, recipient of the 1987 Nobel Peace
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