Today, April 19, marks the World Day of Solidarity with Venezuela, which celebrates the beginning of the struggle for independence from the Spanish colonial yoke, in 1810, led by Simón Bolívar.
Today, 210 years ago, the struggle for affirmation of national sovereignty and independence of Venezuela, together with the social progress of its people, not only continues as it is a particularly important moment.
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On May 2, 1945, the Soviet Army took the Reichstag in Berlin. A few days later, on May 8, Nazi Germany signed its unconditional surrender. On the following day, May 9, millions of people celebrated the day that went down in history as Victory Day.
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the US unleashed atomic horror on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, cities in an already defeated Japan. On September 2, Japanese militarism capitulated.
At a time of pandemic crisis, the release of Palestinian political prisoners from Israeli prisons becomes even more urgent.
11-04-2020
For nine years the Syrian Arab Republic has been facing brutal foreign aggression.
As in Libya, shortly before, the main Western powers and their regional allies, hiding behind terrorist groups (who they arm, train and fund), imposed an aggression and destruction on the country, aiming to overthrow its government and change Syria's political-constitutional regime, control its natural resources and remove one of the main obstacles to total control of the region.
07-04-2020
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation strongly rejects the announcement made last week by the Donald Trump administration that it will build up the presence of naval forces off the coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization - NATO - turns 71 on April 4. If its existence is not only completely unjustifiable in the light of the United Nations Charter as contrary to peace and disarmament, its dissolution is now more than ever a necessity and demand placed on the peoples of the world.
April 2, 2020
The Constitution of the Portuguese Republic was approved and promulgated on April 2, 1976. The Constitution enshrines broad democratic rights – political, social, economic and cultural – won by the Portuguese people with the April Revolution, which began on April 25, 1974, and, in particular, stipulates that Portugal's external relations be guided by the respect for sovereignty and national independence, a policy of peace, friendship and cooperation with all the peoples of the world.
April 1, 2020
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) strongly rejects the statement by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs (MNE), on March 31, which constitutes a new and unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, an affront to the sovereignty of the Venezuelan people and, consequently, a disregard for the principles of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, the UN Charter and international law.
26-03-2020
The complex and very unpredictable moment that we are experiencing, which restricts our usual socialisation, demands a broader vision and a closer look on what is happening, namely on the suffering of the peoples of the most vulnerable countries and the behaviour of the great powers at European and world level, when more solidarity and cooperation is required and a redoubled effort to put an end to the unacceptable recourse of economic and military aggression in international relations.
30-03-2020
On another anniversary of the Palestinian people's massive protests of the against the seizure of their land by the Israeli state, the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) reaffirms its unbreakable solidarity and support for that people's courageous struggle for a free, independent and viable state along the borders prior to June 1967.