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September 11-Former U.S. Sen. Mike
Gravel (D-Alaska) will speak at the UN on Monday, Sept. 14 on the benefits of China's "New Silk Road: One Belt, One Road" program of Eurasian infrastructure development and technological modernization. .

"Such a plan for global development is crucial at this time," said Senator Gravel, "and the United States should join it. There is a threat of thermonuclear war between Russia and the United States arising from Syria and other situations, and also of war confrontation between the United States and China. Under President Obama the United States is exacerbating these confrontations. Mankind could not survive a nuclear war and its after-effects. Conflicts among nations in the age of thermonuclear weapons must be addressed by joint efforts for economic development through broad investments in rising productivity and living standards and new technologies.

"In a nuclear age, leaders of nations must think and act in terms of what Dr. Edward Teller once called, "the common aims of mankind," such as bringing economic development across Eurasia, to the Mideast, Africa, and other nations which desperately need it. Earlier this was President Franklin Roosevelt's plan for the post-World War II period; now it must be done.

"I call on leaders in the United States to accept China's invitation, formally given by Chinese President Xi at a press conference at APEC on Nov. 12, 2014, to join in the "One Road, One Belt program" and usher in a new era of peace through development. My judgment is that this initiative is not motivated by geopolitics, but by a genuine determination to attack challenges of economic recovery and development which no single nation can take on alone," the Senator concluded.

Sen. Gravel, known for his 1971 actions in releasing "The Pentagon Papers," the top-secret papers on the true story of the Vietnam War, by reading them in a Senate committee meeting, and then having them published by Beacon Press. The U.S. Supr Sen. Gravel, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1969-1981, is best eme Court upheld Sen. Gravel's important action, as a legal exercise of the "speech and debate" clause of the U.S. Constitution, which states that the foremost responsibility of Congress is to inform the people about the actions of their government.

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