<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[PGPO To Continue Helping Palestine, Says Tun Dr&nbsp;Mahathir]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p id="newsDate">April 22, 2011 16:45 PM | Bernama</p>
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<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 (Bernama) &#8212; <strong>The Perdana Global Peace Organisation</strong> (PGPO) has vowed to continue aiding the Palestinians, including sending much-needed supplies to the people of Gaza.</p>
<p>Its chairman, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said the organisation would send necessary equipment to repair Gaza&#8217;s sewage system destroyed in Israeli attacks against the occupied territory.</p>
<p>&#8220;Because of this, sewage is flowing into the Mediterranean sea which may cause pollution and disease to beachgoers, including Israelis themselves,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>However, he did not say when the mission would take place.</p>
<p>Dr Mahathir was speaking at a press conference after launching the Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF) and a peace tour at the Al-Bukhary Foundation building here Friday.</p>
<p>Present were PGPF advisor Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali, PGPF chairman Tan Sri Norian Mai and Palestinian ambassador to Malaysia Abd Elaziz Abu Ghoush.</p>
<p>Asked on PGPO&#8217;S declaration against war made at the War Crimes Conference in Kuala Lumpur in 2007, Dr Mahathir said there were non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from other countries which shared the same view with Malaysia.</p>
<p>&#8220;The word has been spread but we don&#8217;t see the results yet. PGPO would consider it a success if anti-war groups worldwide were to tell electoral candidates in their nation, if they don&#8217;t forswear war they won&#8217;t get the vote,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, commenting on the &#8220;Rachel Corrie&#8221;, a Malaysian aid ship which was seized by Israeli commandos in international waters as it headed to Gaza in June last year, he said PGPO may need to acquire a new one.</p>
<p>To another question, the former prime minister said diplomats must try harder to make diplomacy work.</p>
<p>Dr Mahathir said people across the globe would be less threatened by the possibilities of war if politicians gave an undertaking that they would not go down that road.</p>
<p>&#8212; BERNAMA</p>
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