SWABI, Oct 24: The United Nations’ apathy towards Muslims is deplorable as it has failed to resolve the disputes confronting them.

This was crux of speeches made by the experts of international affairs at a programme organized to observe the United Nations Day here on Thursday.

Prof Mohammad Ali said that the US was exerting pressure on the UN to pass a tougher resolution against Iraq and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan also favoured a revised draft to give absolute freedom to the US to declare a war on the Iraqis.

“The world body should disarm Iraq and destroy its biological and chemical weapons but what about Israel’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, which is the real trouble-maker in the Middle East?” he asked.

Prof Manawar said that Palestine had been occupied by Israel which had adopted a crush-Palestinian policy. Why had the UN remained dormant about the Israeli atrocities? he asked. Suicide bombing, he said, was the result of the UN’s double standards. He said thousands of Palestinian people had been killed or maimed, women insulted, their houses demolished, their financial position weakened and even the residential area of the Palestinians president had been sieged and bombed but the UN had failed to stop it.

“Without an independent state of Palestine there will be no peace in the Middle East. Even the world body recognizes this fact but it cannot move for the establishment of a Palestinian state because the sole arbiter of international order, the US, is not interested in it,” he observed.