World Peace Council

The WPC expresses its categorical disapproval of the recent disciplinary measure of the UN High Commission for Refugees against Mrs. Umut Kuruc, representative of the Freedom and Equality for Women of Turkey, member of the Peace Association of Turkey (Baris Dernegi) and member of the Steering Committee of the Women International Democratic Federation (WIDF), by which Umut Kuruc was removed from her post as Senior Secretary of the UNCHR (based in Ankara) after having taken part in a WIDF delegation to Syria on 19-22 October 2013.

organized by the Czech civic association SOLDIERS AGAINST WAR under the auspices of the WORLD PEACE COUNCIL

We met 75 years from the day that Hitler’s Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia. The carte blanche from the “liberal” powers had already been issued through the shameful Munich dictate. Occupied Paris – and London massacred by air raids – followed only in the subsequent year.

The Asia Pacific Regional Meeting of World Peace Council has been successfully accomplished in Kathmandu Nepal during 1-2 March 2014. Participated by 45 delegates from seven countries (India, China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Greece and Nepal), the meeting concluded endorsing annual plan of action for 2014 with a number of solidarity events, campaign against neo liberalism and imperialists’ aggression, for sustainable development and democracy and to fight religious fundamentalism and terrorism in the region.

The World Peace Council (WPC) expresses its deep concern about the situation in the Ukraine after the installation of the new government in Kiev by the imperialists of the European Union, NATO and the U.S., hand in hand with reactionary neo - Nazi groups who were active throughout the last time in the country. On the backs of the Ukrainian people the last few months a dangerous and bloody game was played by US, E.U.

The World Peace Council denounces the ongoing plans and actions to destabilize the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela by reactionary forces and groups with the support of imperialist forces.

The recent violent orchestrated events in Caracas and other regions of the country show clearly the intention of the local oligarchy and its foreign supporters which are aiming in putting obstacles to the efforts of the elected government of the country to empower the people and to solve social problems and needs.

Here you may find the speech of the President of WPC,Socorro Gomes at the "Rosa Luxemburg Conference" in Berlin 11th January 2014 and the Mass rally in commemoration of the assassinated leaders of the Working Class Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in Berlin, 12th January 2014.

The World Peace Council expresses its serious concerns and worries about the recent discussion on a possible future presence of NATO troops (under United States leadership) in Palestine in order to “guarantee” and “supervise” the implementation of a “peace plan” between Palestine and Israel. The interviews by the President of the Palestinian National Authority and the PLO Mahmoud Abbas to Israeli and US Media in this regards, create many questions to peace loving forces and people around the world.

Heads of 31 Nations (CELAC) Declare a Zone of Peace, Commit to Uprooting Forever the Threat or Use of Force

Content (in Spanish):

• 65th anniversary of MOVPAZ and WPC
• III International Seminar for the abolition of Foreign Military Bases held in Guantanamo
• Executive Committee WPC held in Caracas

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Declaration by the Haifa Conference for a Nuclear Weapons and Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East held in Haifa - Israel 5-6 December 2013