Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) said yesterday that if peace were "recognized as a universal value," it would benefit Taiwan, living as it does under China's military threat.
Lu noted that after the chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix told the UN Security Council that Iraq's cooperation with his team had increased, the aversion of nations like France, Germany and Russia to the willingness of the US and Britain to go to war had deepened.
The UN has played a role in putting a damper on the looming attack on Iraq, while demonstrations by anti-war protesters have also highlighted that "peace is a universal value," Lu said.
Lu said that even if the world knows that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is a threat, it does not give the US the legitimacy to launch an attack on Iraq because, "Saddam has yet to pose a clear and immediate danger."
Lu said that if peace were to be regarded as a universal value, it would benefit the situation in the Taiwan Strait, because if even a powerful country like the US "has to wait patiently" to convince the UN before launching an attack on Iraq, then Taiwan could ask the UN to intervene if Beijing wants to invade this country.
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