'The Strasbourg Cesspit'

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain

and Northern Ireland.

20^th February 2008.

His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon,

Secretary General, United Nations,

New York,

USA.

Dear Mr Secretary-General.

SUBJECT: The Treaty of Lisbon. (Letter to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which I am led to believe is also lodged at the United Nations).

I have followed the EU Treaties over quite a number of years and have taken in the meaning of those Treaties. Particularly clear was the now rejected “Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe”, most of the contents of which have now been brought forward in the Treaty of Lisbon.

What I find so particularly distasteful is that now the people are beginning to be aware that those who want power have, during the “Time of Reflection” brought about such a muddled Treaty to be able to say it is completely different to the rejected “Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe”. The so very obvious excuse being to avoid holding the promised referendum in any State except Ireland whose constitution is such that a referendum has to be held on any constitutional change. The EU and Heads of States in this instance, if this Treaty is allowed to go through in its present state may have brought organisations that many people look up to, into disrepute.

Many of the Articles in the Treaty have been renumbered three times. This has caused much of the confusion and it has obviously prevented many people from having any comprehension as to the full implications that the Treaty holds for their future and for future generations. Yet it will alter the way they are governed for decades to come.

Many have been the comments from those in power as to the real meaning of the Treaty. “That it is the same as the Constitution, only put another way” etc, and others, particularly in this Country, “that it (the then Reform Treaty-now the Treaty of Lisbon) “is nothing like the EU Constitution and therefore there is no need of the (promised) referendum”. So very many are these kind of comments from people ‘of note’, from many countries, from important dignitaries that there is more than enough ‘evidence’ to prove this point.

It is a Treaty that perhaps the Vienna Convention on Treaties would not want to be party to, particularly so in view of its ‘guide lines’ or “laws” on the subject. Perhaps the EU’s methods are distasteful to the United Nations that even the United Nations might in the end shrink away from it too, for it has its high reputation to consider throughout the world. Could or would the United Nations or the Vienna Convention on Treaties accept a European Union to “Speak with its one voice for all” knowing that the EU had deliberately set out to deceive 500 million people with such a Treaty?

The Treaty appears to have been deliberately muddled to confuse the people (and possibly MP’s) so that none can understand the true meaning of its contents. In complete contrast to the relative transparency surrounding the drawing up of the “Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe” the Heads of State and the EU leaders have quite deliberately opted for opacity. This was done in the ‘time of reflection’. The Treaty is, however, so incomprehensible that it is almost impossible to unravel. It is manifestly obvious that ‘that the aim was to confuse’ so that leaders could say that it is nothing like the previous EU Constitutional Treaty so there is no need to have a referendum.

Having looked at the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, I took particular note of Article 31, and in particular section 1, General rule of interpretation, Article32, Supplementary means of interpretation, Article 40 Amending Treaties, Article 49, Fraud and others up to Article 62. These articles are in this Treaty for a purpose. Long lasting Treaties should be honestly written and clear so that all involved can understand the true meaning of them for these are meant to be long lasting and binding, therefore great trouble should be taken in the drawing up of the Treaties-the previous now abandoned EU Constitution took longer than two years. All should understand fully in complete truthfulness and in complete understanding so that in the ratification and the people that they apply to can understand them fully.

Where there are deliberate attempts by authors of Treaties to confuse the people, this brings only shame and once again, more lack of trust in politicians. This may well lead to unrest amongst the people – particularly in the United Kingdom where it conflicts with a thousand years of constitutional statute law still in force - -if they feel they have been either ignored or tricked. This is a Treaty that will alter the way of life of all the people in each Nation State seemingly forever; the people at this particular time deserve the true meaning of the European Union and its aims for the future.

I ask that you please look at this Treaty and see if it comes up to the standards you would expect of a long lasting and binding Treaty? If there is any doubt on your part Sir, I would request, as a matter of the utmost urgency, that it be re-written and presented once more to the people in the 27 Nation States concerned.

I thank you for your time,

Yours faithfully,

Anne Palmer (Mrs)

A very ordinary citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

A copy to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

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