March 2000 

News From Around The World

Mozambique: President Chissano Aims to Eradicate Poverty

The Panafrican News Agency reported on January 22, 2000 that President Joaquim Chissano says the "core objective" of his government’s new five-year program is to "wipe out absolute poverty." President Chissano was recently elected to a second five-year term. His first term as President resulted in an unprecedented period of peace and economic progress for the African nation, which he credits to the harmonizing influence of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs practiced in groups by thousands of soldiers in the Mozambique armed forces.

"It is not the weapons that will save the country, it is the coherence of its national consciousness, and the unbounded awareness of its military men."—Maharishi, from Maharishi’s Absolute Theory of Defense.

Russia: Eastern Alliance for Lasting World Peace Launched

In Moscow on November 22, 1999, the Russian Academy of Social Sciences signed an historic agreement with Maharishi University of World Peace. The two groups agreed to create a forum to bring political leaders and thinkers of the East together to create an "Eastern Alliance for Lasting World Peace."

His Excellency, Ambassador at Large of Russia, Academician Alexander Kapto is the foremost leader of world peace in Russia. "The Academy of Social Science," says Ambassador Kapto, "is happy to work together with Maharishi University of World Peace to establish big groups of Yogic Flyers in all the Eastern countries to create coherence and peace in collective consciousness.

Japan: Japanese Political Leaders Endorse Eastern Alliance

Dr. Kogi Kakizawa, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Japan, and Mr. Hidenao Nakagawa, Member of Parliament, Chairman of the Space Development Committee and former Minister of Science and Technology, endorsed the Eastern Alliance for Lasting World Peace.

"Science and technology are essential for the happiness, health and welfare of all the living things and they should never be used for killing or destruction," said Mr. Nakagawa.

"The approach proposed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to create world peace is not through physical weapons or destructive means, but through consciousness. I very much adore his noble thought."