DENUCLEARIZATION, DISARMAMENT & PEACE
All the great sayings in the great scriptures
and ethical treatises of the world command us, as also the existential crisis
of mankind makes it imperative for nations of the world – especially the great
powers, to strive for the above noble ideals: “Ayam nijaha paro veti ganana laghuchetasam,
udaaracharitanaam tu vasudaiva kutumbakam” (To discriminate that ‘one is mine and the other is not’ is
narrow-minded act; for liberal hearted the entire world is one family) and “Om Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah, Sarve Santu
Nir-Aamayaah | Sarve Bhadraanni Pashyantu Maa Kashcid-Duhkha-Bhaag-Bhavet | Om
Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||” (Om,
May All become Happy, May All
be Free from Illness, May All See what
is Auspicious, May no one
Suffer, Om Peace, Peace, Peace) – thus exhort ancient Hindu scriptures and a Christian one
commands, “And
he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning-hooks:
nation shall not lift up sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any more - (Isaiah 2:4)”, etc. etc. For the very survival of humanity world peace is quite essential and all
the energies and efforts of various nations should be directed at development
with social, economic and political justice. We have not yet forgotten the
first nuclear carnages in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; nor can we forget the two
world wars and the horrors and genocides of the many post-WW invasions and wars
in various regions including the current cataclysms. In this background it is
really exhilarating to find the U.S. President Trump, despite all his warmongering
rhetorical blasts and big power chauvinism, coming to senses and focusing on
peace talks with leaders in trouble-spot zones, especially the recent summit
with North Korean Chairman and now the future summit to be held with the other
nuclear superpower Russia next month. It also appears very tactful of him to
have sent the chief protagonist of neoconservative elite – Bolton – to Moscow
as his envoy, thus trying the age-old wise measure of ‘giving keys to the thief
for safe keeping’! Needless to stress,
the main agenda of the forthcoming summit between President Trump and President
Putin should be striving toward international peace and development by reviving
all the disarmament/ denuclearization treaties and measures given a go-by –
mainly by the belligerent American regimes – in recent decades; likewise all sanctions against Russia and the
current trade war with China, etc. by the US should end, bearing in mind the
danger of such hegemonic sanctions and trade wars usually leading to real wars.
Let the two superpowers set themselves up as role models for world peace. §§§
