May
25,
2003
Leaders
of
Communist
Party
of
India
(Marxist),
Communist
Party
of
India,
Revolutionary
Socialist
Party
and
Forward
Bloc
have
issued
the
following
statement:
The
Vajpayee
government
is
considering
a
request
made
by
the
US
administration
to
send
a
contingent
of
Indian
troops
to
Iraq
to
assist
its
occupation
regime
there.
It
seems,
the
government
was
waiting
for
the
UN
Security
Council
resolution
on
Iraq,
to
take
a
final
decision
in
the
matter.
The
UN
resolution
has
recognized
the
US
as
the
occupying
authority.
There
is
no
UN-sponsored
administration
in
Iraq.
Further,
there
will
be
no
UN
peace-keeping
force.
The
US
military
will
continue
as
the
occupying
force
and
any
troops
sent
there
will
work
under
the
US
command.
It
is
also
clear
that
in
the
name
of
a
“stabilization
force”,
the
US
wants
troops
from
allied
countries
to
share
the
burden
of
pacifying
Iraq
and
to
quell
any
opposition
to
its
illegal
occupation.
Sending
of
troops
to
serve
the
needs
of
the
US
occupation
will
be
totally
against
the
all
parties
stand
reflected
in
the
statement
adopted
in
the
last
session
of
Parliament.
The
statement
deplored
US-British
military
action,
called
for
the
withdrawal
of
their
military
forces
and
for
handing
over
the
interim
administration
to
the
UN.
There should be no involvement at the military level with the occupation regime in Iraq. The Vajpayee government should not send Indian troops contrary to the resolution of Parliament. It will be in flagrant violation of the wishes of the Indian people.
Harkishan Singh Surjeet (CPI-M)
A. B. Bardhan (CPI)
Debabrata Biswas (Forward Bloc)
Abani
Roy
(RSP)