Outcome and conclusions of the Secretariat Meeting WPC, Brussels October 17-18, 2011

The enlarged Meeting of the Secretariat of WPC took place successfully in Brussels from October 17-18, 2011 along with the regional Meeting of Europe of the WPC.
More than 41 delegates from 27 Organisations took part in the meeting, which was presided by the President Socorro Gomes and the General Secretary Thanassis Pafilis who delivered also the main political speech and report to the meeting.

The Secretariat of the WPC expresses its deep concern about the growing imperialist aggressiveness in all corners of the world, especially in the midst of the economic capitalist crisis, where a brutal attack on workers’ and peoples’ income, social and labour rights is taking place in many countries of the world. The rivalries and competition between imperialist forces for new spheres of influence, markets and natural resources is reaching high levels.

The meeting expressed its crystal clear positions against the imperialist aggression against the Libyan people, led by the USA, France UK, the whole NATO and their allies for the sake of the control of the energy resources and the geo-political hegemony.

The Secretariat of WPC expressed its solidarity to the Syrian people supporting their genuine social and democratic demands condemning at the same time all internal and external manipulation by imperialist forces and their willing allies inside Syria aiming to bring the country into a civil war and a violent regime change.

The WPC denounces the imperialist plan for the New Middle East, part of which the above developments are and underlines its positions for the right of every people to determine its future freely and democratically, without any foreign political or military interference.

The meeting discussed deeply the two texts and the respective regional reports. All present Secretariat members and several other attending Organisations took part in the fruitful discussion which agreed to consider as political basis of the evaluations of the meeting the papers of the President and General Secretary (see attached docs) together with the concrete decisions for future actions and initiatives:

1. The Secretariat of the WPC decided to hold the next Assembly of the World Peace Council in June/July 2012 in Kathmandu, capital of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal and hosted by the Nepal Peace and Solidarity Council


2. To plan together with the Regional Coordinators five regional consultative meetings in the course of the preparations of the next Assembly in Africa, America, Asia&Pacific, Europe and Middle East


3. To salute the workers and peoples’ struggles, strikes and massive mobilizations in Europe (Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Ireland) as well as in other continents (Chile, South Africa, USA etc), underlining the need to join efforts between the peace movement and the class oriented trade union movement against the attack of the governments, the EU and the IMF which are serving the growing profits of the big capital and the Multinational corporations.


4. To issue a statement-open letter to the Secretary General of the UN in support to the initiative for the recognition of the independent State of Palestine within the borders of June 1967 and with East Jerusalem as its capital and to continue the efforts for the approval of the proposal


5. To issue an open letter to the President of the USA demanding the release of the CUBAN FIVE from US prisons and particularly of Rene Gonzalez the right to return to Cuba
6. To support the initiatives of the US Peace Council against the NATO summit in 2012 in Chicago


7. To continue the campaign against the Foreign Military Bases in Latin America and against the installation of new Bases in the region
8. To explore together with our partner (Syrian National Peace Council) the possibility of an International Fact Finding mission to Syria in order to express solidarity with the Syrian people and WPC’s rejection to the imperialist plans in Syria and the region.

 

 


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Appendix: List of Participants
WPC Secretariat Meeting
Brussels October 17-18,2011

List of Participants

NAME                              Org/Country

Socorro Gomes	CEBRAPAZ	Brazil
Athanasios Pafilis	EEDYE	Greece
Iraklis Tsavdaridis	EEDYE	Greece
Pallab Sengupta	AIPSO	India
Augusto Valdes	MOVPAZ	Cuba
Henry Lowendorf	USPC	USA
Rui Namorado Rosa	CPPC	Portugal
Aqel Taqz	PCPS	Palestine
Jose Reinaldo Carvalho	CEBRAPAZ	Brazil
Rim Farha	GPC	Germany
Baerbel Schindler	GPC	Germany
Vital Balla	APAC	Congo
Donatien Okombi	APAC	Congo
Pascaline Bantantu	APAC	Congo
Esben Majgaard Hansen	DPM	Denmark
Jamshid Ahmadi	ADPSD	Iran
Jiri Bures	SAW	Czech R.
Vladimir Starek	SAW	Czech R.
Michel Thouzeau	MdPaix	France
Ingrid Schanche	NFF	Norway
Bert de Belder	INTAL	Belgium
Mario Franssen	INTAL	Belgium
Selin Dingiloglu	Peace Ass.	Turkey
Tuula Sykko	FPC	Finland
Sonja Jamkojian	OFR	Austria
Helga Ungar	OFR	Austria
Christoforos Koumbarou	CPC	Cyprus
Georgi Berdzulishvili	PCG	Georgia
Roger Cole	PANA	Ireland
Jiri Sobotka	CPS	Czech R.
Zivadin Jovanovic	BF	Serbia
Rajendra Prasad Pandey	NPSC	Nepal
Rabindra Adhikari	NPSC	Nepal
Pashupati Chaulagain	NPSC	Nepal
Yul Jabour	COSI	Venezuela
Dave McKee	CPCon	Canada
Stavros Tassos	EEDYE	Greece
Barbara Nikolaidou	EEDYE	Greece
Georgios Lamprakis	EEDYE	Greece
Christos Marganellis	EEDYE	Greece




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