The Network is hosting a social & business networking event at the Civil Service Club.
Join us on Thursday 14th April 2022 at 6:30pm GMT when we are delighted to welcome
David Selves, a highly experienced and energetic businessman with over 50 years experience in the SME world. He has the Freedom of City of London, is a Freeman of the Company of Entrepreneurs, a former National Board Member and Regional Chairman of the Small Business Bureau (set up by David Trippier when he was Margaret Thatcher’s Minister for Small Businesses) and a broadcaster, speaker, moderator, and chairman with vast local and national political experience. Today his business life is morphing to Non Executive Director roles including companies in flood prevention and wellbeing technologies and the arranging of seed and risk capital.
Despite a full and busy life, he has always found time to involve himself with charities and good causes and has raised just short of £1m for them on his gavel as a charity auctioneer. He also spent fifteen years of his life working on “UN Shield – the Elimination of War between Sovereign States” which was conceived by his good friend Paul Stonor, who died in 2004. David continued to promote the concept until the late noughties which had support from world notables, but not those in power. Some of the significant comments, mainly from the late nineteen nineties, were:
Jim Callaghan said, “When the Charter of the United Nations was agreed, those who designed it looked forward to such a possibility, but any progress was pushed into the background by the Cold War.”
Lord Ramsbottom said, “As ever …. the subject of a “quick response unit” came up. Such a body was intended in the UN Charter, but has never been implemented.”
Jean Pictet, the Red Cross lawyer who drew up the humanitarian military code, interviewed by Peter Capella in the Guardian, said, “I am a great-grandfather of two days. I think my great-grandson will see an organised world, with a judicial force backed by military strength that outstrips any other. I don’t think there’s any other solution.”
And a former head of the American CIA , Admiral James Wolsey said, “there will always be a maverick nation.”.
It is UN Shield – the Elimination of War between Sovereign States that David will speak to us about.
Please look at https://thenetworklondon.blogspot.com/2022/03/president-zelenskys-address-to-congress.html
The presentation will be followed by a Q & A session.
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President Zelensky’s address to Congress 16th March
2022
Speaking to the American Congress on 16th March 2022, Ukraine’s President Zelensky was calling for Shield when he said:
The destruction of our country, the
destruction of Europe. All American ports should be closed for Russian goods.
We — peace is more important than income and we have to defend this principle
in the whole world.
We already became part of the antiwar coalition
— a big antiwar coalition that unites many countries, dozens of countries,
those who reacted too in principle to President Putin’s decision to invade our
country — but we need to move on and do more.
We need to create new tools to respond quickly
and stop the war. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on
February 24th. And it would be fair if it ended in a day, in 24 hours, that
evil would be punished immediately. Today, the world does not have such tools.
The war of the past have prompted our predecessors to create institutions that
should protect us from war. But they unfortunately don’t work. We see it, you
see it.
So we need new
ones, new institutions, new alliances, and we offer them. We propose to create
an association, U-24, United for Peace, a union of responsible countries that
have the strength and consciousness to stop conflicts immediately, provide all
the necessary assistance in 24 hours if necessary, even weapons, if necessary.
Can anyone now deny that the concept
of Shield is something whose time has come? The saddest words in the English
language are, “If only” ….. it is time to act!
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