Communiqué of the Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting of the WPC
Kathmandu, 26th July, 2023
1. The Asian Pacific consultative meeting of the World Peace Council was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 26th July, hosted by the Nepal Peace and Solidarity Council (NPSC). Delegations from Bangladesh, DPR of Korea, India, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam attended this meeting, along with Pallab Sengupta, President and Iraklis Tsavdaridis, Executive Secretary of World Peace Council.
In 1945, with World War II already over in the Far East, the unthinkable happened: two atomic
bombs were dropped by the US on civilian populations on August 6 and 9, decimating the
inhabitants of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were literally wiped off
the map.
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
International tensions are growing daily. Military budgets and war preparations are surging. Crippling economic sanctions are proliferating and Cold War rhetoric fills the airwaves and news feeds. The largest nuclear weapon states seem to be on a collision course.
Seventy-eight years ago, an act of international criminality and infamy took place, the consequences of which have posed an existential threat to humanity ever since. For the first time, a species had created the capacity to not only bring about its own extinction, but also to threaten virtually all life on our planet.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) participated, between 21 and 23 July, at the Camp "Give Peace a Chance",
organized by the Platform for Peace and Disarmament - to which the CPPC belongs - held in Melides, Grândola.
The camp started on Friday afternoon, with hundreds of young people from all over the country arriving at the campsite, which was also the venue for the first night's entertainment.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation - CPPC, one of the organizations promoting and subscribing to the appeal "Together for Cuba", was present at the act of solidarity that took place at Voz do Operário, in Lisbon, last July 15.
On July 11 and 12, the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation carried out several actions as part of the Campaign against the NATO Summit, which took place on those two days in Vilnius, Lithuania.
On the 11th and 12th, contact actions were carried out with the populations in the cities of Setúbal, Porto, Viseu and Coimbra with the newspaper "Peace Yes! NATO No!", which calls for Peace and denounces NATO's warmongering objectives. It can be consulted here: https://shorturl.at/ILRT3
WPC from Asia&Pacific Regional Meeting was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on the 26th-27th of July, 2023. Here are two resolutions from this meeting.
Resolution in solidarity with the Korean People
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) advocates general, simultaneous and controlled disarmament, the dissolution of political-military blocs and the establishment of a collective security system, with the goal of creating an international order capable of ensuring peace and justice in relations between peoples, as advocated by the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic.
As the July 29 one-year anniversary of the FBI raids on properties belonging to the African People’s Socialist Party, its solidarity committee and the Uhuru Movement passes, the US Peace Council condemns the violent and illegal state attack on the rights and freedoms of Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, known as the “Uhuru 3”, and those whom they serve.
