8th Seminar on anti-war and for a world of peace and social justice concluded in Cuba

GUANTANAMO, Cuba, May 6 (ACN) The 8th International Seminar for Peace and the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases concluded on Sunday with a Final Declaration advocating for a peaceful world and social justice, from the Cuban easternmost town of Caimanera, bordering the only existing artificial border in the country, which was imposed by the United States in 1903.

The reading of the important document, approved by the 80 participants from 30 countries in the event, was in charge of Sara Roman Palmesano, invited member of the Friends of Cuba Committee of Cali, Colombia, in a political-cultural event in the coastal town, described as heroic by the Historical Leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, on July 26, 1985.

The Declaration endorsed the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace and the commitment of the pacifists gathered at the Seminar to denounce the aggressive and meddling policies of the current administration of the White House and its allies.

It also demanded the closure of the foreign military bases and installations of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) throughout the world and to continue demanding the return of the territory illegally occupied by the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo.

In an increasingly complex context, characterized by the increasing aggressiveness of capitalism at a global level and the meddling of all kinds by U.S. imperialism, the European Union and NATO, the document rejected the cyberwar and misinformation campaigns undertaken by those powers, their role in the militarization of Ukraine and their support for the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which must cease.

There was unanimous solidarity with the people of Palestine, their inalienable right to self-determination, to build their own independent and sovereign state within the pre-1960 borders, with its capital in East Jerusalem, and the repression and persecution in several countries against activists who support the ceasefire in that Middle Eastern nation was denounced.

Leaders of the World Peace Council and its member organizations, anti-war and friends in solidarity with Cuba, urged to work in a coordinated way the actions in defense of world peace, with the solidarity movements with the Caribbean nation in different countries.