Chiluba wants UN to ban unconstitutional governments

Zambian President Frederick Chiluba on Thursday called on the UN to reject governments that take power through unconstitutional means, saying this has been the major cause of instability in Africa. “We, in Africa, have recognised that military and other unconstitutional upheavals are the major causes of political instability,” he told the UN Millennium Summit. The UN, he added, needs to adopt a similar declaration to that of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), to eliminate unconstitutional removal of elected governments. Chiluba regretted that so many years after the UN was created to bring peace and harmony in the world, global peace is still not in sight while poverty continued to wreak havoc on the majority of the world’s people. “Poverty is not an accident but a result of iniquitous economic and political interaction in which the weak continue to be deprived of resources necessary for development,” he said.