ISLAMABAD, Jan 29: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has warned the world that millions of lives would be lost and a large-scale regional destabilisation would occur if a war was imposed on Iraq.

The MMA central leaders held meetings on Wednesday with the ambassadors of France, Germany, European Union and Russia, and handed over a memorandum to them asking for stopping the United States from attacking Iraq.

The decision to meet the envoys of the UN Security Council member and non-member European countries was taken by the MMA supreme council in its meeting on Monday evening.

The memorandum is signed by leaders of five of the six component parties. Signature of Sajid Meer of Jamiat Ahle Hadith is missing from it.

The MMA team was led by its president, Allama Shah Ahmed Noorani, and included Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, Maulana Samiul Haq, Allama Sajid Naqvi and Abdul Ghaffar Aziz.

The memorandum said the risk was limited not only to war but involved letting up of worse political and democratic traditions since the US insisted on change of Saddam regime.

Appreciating French stance leading to the apparent shift in the US policy and suspension of war threat, the memorandum said what was most needed today was not the mere postponement of the threat of war but the complete elimination of the threat.