PRM viewed with grave concern a likely military strike o­n Iraq and will join a peaceful demonstration against the "hypocrisy of United States" in front of its embassy in Kuala Lumpur next week, said the party's youth vice-chairperson Jonson Chong.

He said despite the "so-called evidence" provided by US Secretary of State Colin Powell this week, the party resolutely believes that waging war against Iraq is not the solution to an uncertain problem.

He added the justification that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction as claimed by US cannot stand because other countries including US also own such weapons.

On another charge that Iraq has aggressive tendency towards its neighbours, he said "the argument again cannot stand because there are also other countries with greater destructive power than Iraq which have posed as great threats to international peace and security".

He said US itself had in the past demonstrated its lack of respect for the territorial and political sovereignty of its other countries by conducting clandestine operations or blatantly breaching its neighbours' security.