World Peace Council

CEBRAPAZ held its 5th National Assembly on the 7th of December, 2019, in Salvador, the capital city of the Brazilian federal state of Bahia. Branches from many states were represented by their delegates. As you know, the situation in Brazil is extremely worrying and conditions are harsh with our political, social and economic crises under this proto-fascist Government of Jair Bolsonaro.

We consider the Assembly to have taken place successfully and elected the new Executive and National Board. The Executive Board now is the following:

Mike Pompeo and Netanyahu are not welcome to Portugal!

December 6, 18h00, Largo Camões – Lisbon

It was announced that Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State was coming to Portugal. Afterwards the presence of the Israeli prime-minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that will hold meetings with Pompeo and Portuguese authorities, was also confirmed.

Today, November 29, marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, established by the United Nations, in view of the adoption by its General Assembly of Resolution 181 of 1947, which called for the division of Palestine into two States, a Jewish and an Arab - respectively, with 55% and 44% of the territory - and the continuity of Jerusalem and Bethlehem under international control.

The daily newspaper Morning Star in the UK has made an interview with Thanassis Pafilis, General Secretary of the World Peace Council on November, 30.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will continue to mark its 70th years with a Heads of State and Government summit in London on 3-4 December 2019.

For 70 years, NATO has been the number one aggressive military tool of imperialism. It is the largest and most dangerous military organization in the world. Despite rivalries between its individual members and the contradictions these from time to time present, it remains inherently and deeply interconnected with the policies of the US and EU, its so-called 'European arm'.

Saturday 16st November 2019, a assembly with a good number of participants was held at the State University of Milan, organized by the Committee Against Milan War with the collective "Milan en revolucion", member to the Movimiento Revolucion Ciudadana.

With our guest Pino Arlacchi, ex vice secretary of the UN Assembly and today advisor to the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the political, economic and social situation of the Latin American and Caribbean countries was discussed.

«Yes to peace! No to NATO! ”Is once again the motto that unites several Portuguese organizations that demand the defence of peace and the rights of peoples and demand compliance with the principles embodied in the United Nations Charter and the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic. They therefore contest the holding of the NATO summit in London (3-4 December) and reaffirm the demand for the dissolution of this aggressive military-political bloc, responsible for most of the world's military spending, for the dissemination of military bases and installations.

Once again, the US government has shown that it is willing to annul even international law in order to support of the violations and crimes committed by the guardian of Imperialist interests, namely Israel. This time through the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, it is covering up the war crime which is being committed in the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank, provocatively characterizing Israeli settlements as lawful.

The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) promoted on 16 November at the premises of the Professional School Bento de Jesus Caraça, in Lisbon, a conference "New Chalenges for Peace in Latin America.

Presided by Ilda Figueiredo and Luís Carapinha, from CPPC, and the ambassadors of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Cuba, Lucas Rincón Romero and Mercedes Martínez.

Representatives of the Colombians for Peace (Portugal), the Chileans in Portugal and the PT Brazil Lisbon chapter also spoke.

The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) strongly rejects the consummation of the coup d'état in Bolivia against President Evo Morales, his government, the democratic constitutionality and the Bolivian people.

As the CPPC has previously pointed out, this is yet another step towards the execution of the destabilization agenda commanded from Washington against the peoples and countries that in Latin America and the Caribbean have been leading processes of affirmation of sovereignty, social progress and cooperation