Written evidence submitted by Gareth Howell
I enclose some thoughts that the committee might
like to consider.
Drawing attention to a new supranational order
and its potential as a vehicle for human rights campaigns is not
an easy matter! I have tried where nobody else seems to have done.
Endeavouring to criticise something in a document where it is
not even considered, other than a few words about Andizhan in
a Washington speech by the foreign secretary, is not an easy task.
My Kinsman Lord David Howell, (former foreign
secretary) has some fairly clear views on Eurasia for the future,
but he has probably not considered it in the context of human
rights, merely as international organisation. It may be that he
sees it as including the Shanghai Cooperative, which I do not
see as a possibility at all. I do see CAC as a liberating organisation,
even for the hidebound "thinkers" of Al Qaeda, who would
find themselves with an International Islamic organisation based
on territory and not just rhetoric or terror.
Gareth Howell
18 October 2005
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