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ACNS 3400     |     IRELAND	|     11 APRIL 2003

Primate of All Ireland speaks of building a New World

[The Church of Ireland Press Office] The Church of Ireland Primate,
Archbishop Robin Eames, tonight called for a new world order where
compassion compels prosperous nations to strive for higher standards of
living for those denied the basics of life.
Speaking this evening at the Annual Dinner of the British Institution of
Civil Engineers in the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, Dr Eames said, "A new
world order is emerging as a result of much more than the conflict in Iraq.
That world order is asking questions of humanity about power, world
institutions, justice and compassion as never before.

"Alongside power to influence, there must be a new awareness of human need
in the global village. World influence will be much more potent if nations
equate power with meeting humanitarian needs on the same basis that they now
use military might.

"There has to be an international willingness to meet basic human needs,
provide adequate food and resources, challenge world debt, if the new world
order is to be one of building confidence and human understanding.

"The connection between world terrorism and poverty cannot be ignored.

"War is not the only way of exercising influence in places of potential
danger. The new world order has got to be a place where compassion, relief
and realism compel those who have to strive for greater equality of
opportunity, higher standards of living - above all hope for those
denied the basics of life.

"Hope is still a rare commodity in our world. Without real human hope, armed
conflict will continue to be a tragic agenda for the new world order."

Tonight's event was presided over by Professor Adrian Long of Queen's
University, Belfast, the first person from Northern Ireland to be President
of the British Institution of Civil Engineers.

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