STATEMENT FOR THE PRESS

EUROPEAN NATURAL LAW PARTY LEADERS SUMMIT, CARDIFF

Stress relief for Kosovo
Natural Law Party leaders encourage EU to set up a group of 10,000 Yogic Flyers to create permanent peace

What is needed to create stable peace in Kosovo is not negotiations, sanctions or a show of NATO military technology, but a display of the technology to create coherence in collective consciousness, European Natural Law Party leaders said today at a press briefing in Cardiff.

"Neither armed intervention nor international agreements have ever ensured permanent peace," said Dr Reinhard Borowitz, leader of the Natural Law Party of Germany and chairman of the European Summit of Natural Law Party leaders which has been held in Cardiff from 13 to 16 June.

While the European Council has been discussing the problems of the EU, Natural Law Party leaders have been formulating a 10-point action plan to create a problem-free Europe by the year 2000 (announced yesterday).

To create permanent peace throughout Europe, the Natural Law Parties are calling on EU leaders to establish a permanent group of 10,000 people practising Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying. "Over 40 sociological studies have shown that establishing such a group in Europe would produce a dramatic reduction in crime, conflict, and violence by resolving stress in collective consciousness and creating a coherent, integrated society," Dr Borowitz said. He quoted the UNESCO charter: "Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that peace must be constructed."

Stress fighting stress

"Regional conflicts such as those in Northern Ireland and Kosovo arise when collective consciousness is weak, turbulent, and disorderly," added Thomas Mullins, Chairman of the Natural Law Party of Northern Ireland. "What happens is that the individual preferences of different communities appear incompatible and the people cannot live in peace with each other."

Mr Mullins said: "The source of conflicts and problems both in Northern Ireland and the Balkans lies deeper than race, religion, politics or paramilitary groups. The problem in Kosovo should be viewed not as Serbs fighting Albanians but rather as stress fighting stress.

"Violation of Natural Law creates a build-up of stress in individual and collective consciousness," he said. "This is the basic cause of the fear, intolerance and violence that has dominated life in the region. Only relief from stress in society can resolve the problem."

Dr Geoffrey Clements, leader of the Natural Law Party of the United Kingdom, added: "The current show of power by the EU nations is the show of the ability to kill and die. It is a crime against life and will just lead to more stress. In contrast, the Natural Law Party's programme will bring peace to the region, not through fear of military or economic reprisal, but through the ability to nourish and be a friend to all."