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By Hasan Suroor
LONDON, MARCH 10. The British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, on Thursday cited the work of the Indian Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen to advocate democratic reforms in West Asia which, he said, was witnessing a "wave of change'' in the wake of the Iraqi elections. Extending Britain's full support to the push towards democracy in the region, which he described as the "best possible guarantee'' for peace and security, Mr. Straw said: "The economist Amartya Sen has demonstrated that there are many other benefits. Famine and similar catastrophes are far rarer in even the poorest democracies than in countries where power is in the hands of the few — as the tragic examples of Zimbabwe, Burma and North Korea demonstrate.'' Mr. Straw, who was delivering a major foreign policy speech at the Fabian Society — Britain's leading left-wing think-tank — sought not to echo the American line that democracy in many Arab countries was a direct result of the "free'' elections in Iraq saying that it was a result of a "combination'' of factors. "It will be for historians to judge — at greater distance and detachment than I can offer — just how much the end of the Saddam regime in Iraq and the free elections there in January have contributed to what is now happening,'' he said.
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