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10 the meddling, interfering and mischievous actions of the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA) on the pretext of preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Today it is Iraq and People's Korea who face these violations of their sovereignty by the IAEA. Tomorrow it could be Pakistan or indeed India or whatever country at any given time incurs the enmity of the US. Yet all the world knows that it is precisely the US which stations nuclear weapons around the world, for long making south Korea the most densely concentrated area of nuclear weapons in the world, while, again, it the US nuclear-armed fleet which threatens, often with explicit and reckless military manoeuvres and so-called 'exercises', the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Pacific. So how have the US and its allies the effrontery to target third world countries such as People's Korea and Iraq on the nuclear issue? We all know, of course, that it is because it is those countries which have bravely stood up against outside domination, and have carried the message to the whole world that a nation, no matter how poor, small or oppressed, which has a strong sense of national dignity and patriotic pride is unconquerable. It is our elementary duty as internationalists to give our whole-hearted solidarity to such countries in defending their independence and integrity, particularly when they face the divide-and-rule tactics of imperialism, as in the recent tragic events in Yemen, a country which the US and its allies have long sought to revenge ever since it courageously stood by principle and refused to support the anti-Iraq coalition. In building solidarity for the threatened countries of the third world, we can indeed take pride in the fact that the activities of those participating in the activities of our Commission have included people of so many different national communities living in Britain - for example this Seminar is attended by many people from Pakistan, along with Arab and other friends, whilst last week we addressed a meeting attended by many Turks and Africans, and the week before that we addressed a meeting attended by many from the Indian community, and on other occasions we have worked with people from Ireland and so many other countries. This fact demonstrates that solidarity and defence of their countries of origin by these communities is related not only to specific countries alone, but is infused with the noble internationalist outlook of standing together with all throughout the world who face imperialist pressure, economic sanctions and threats. Here, then, we see people who inevitably and closely identify with the third world, and who indeed often see their primary struggle as the struggle for the independence, democracy and development of their countries of origin, while many of them turn for their inspiration to such leaders as James Connolly, Che Guevara, Kwame Nkrumah, Zulfikhar Ali Bhutto, Ayatollah Khomeini, Bhagat Singh, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Michel Aflaq, Moammar Qadhafy, and the great leaders of East Asian Socialism - Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung. In this connection, it is very gratifying to note that a condolence book is open at this meeting for the late President Kim Il Sung of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, who sadly passed away from us earlier this month. There are a number of people present here today who have visited People's Korea, and they will all have witnessed the unparalleled love and devotion felt by the people of Korea for their President, father of the nation and universally respected as their great leader. The past weeks have been a period of many tributes to this great hero of Asian and world liberation. To quote only one example, Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was his long-standing friend,

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