Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:41:08 +0000 WE MUST all strive to make 2017 the year of peace in which to overcome our differences, end hunger and suffering, stop the wars raging around us, fight climate change and endeavour to bring relative prosperity to all. This is the lofty aspiration of the United Nations as the New Year 2017 dawns. We support the call by newly elected United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres that we must all do everything in our power to ensure the human family’s prosperity, dignity, hope and progress. This can only be possible if we maintain peace in our households, communities, nations, regions, continents and the global village as a whole. The present conflicts in Syria, South Sudan and other flash-points which have been internationalised by the Superpowers do not augur well for world peace. They cause massive suffering, fuel huge migrations and destroy economies of not only the affected countries but […]
