The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation held, on December 16th, in Lisbon, its Peace Assembly, which determined the action priorities and the CPPC bodies for the next two years. Ilda Figueiredo was re-elected as president of the National Leadership.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC), organized in Lisbon, the seminar “For an End of Nuclear Weapons”. The seminar had the participation of Jean-Paul Lainé, president of the World Federation of Scientific Workers, of Frederico Carvalho, physicist and member of CPPC’s Presidency and CPPC’s Chairperson Ilda Figueiredo. This seminar was held within the framework of CPPC’s campaign for Portugal’s signature to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, that also comprises a petition to the Portuguese Authorities.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) divulges Frederico Carvalho’s address to the seminar “For an End to Nuclear Weapons”, promoted within the framework of CPPC’s campaign for Portugal’s subscription to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
WAR AND PEACE: A NEW LOOK
The Conference on U.S. Foreign Military Bases was held successfully on January 12-14, at Learning Commons Town Hall, University of Baltimore, USA. Attached are the resolutions of the conference.
The 18th Congress of the Greek Committee for International Détente and Peace (EEDYE) concluded successfully on 2nd and 3rd December at the town hall of Chaidari/Attica its deliberations.
The Congress was attended by 278 delegates coming from 58 Peace Committees from all over the country (out of which the 18 were from the capital area).
18th Congress of the Greek Committee for International Detente and Peace (EEDYE) will be held on 2-3 December 2017, at the Town hall of Chaidari/Attica.
The new issue of the organ of Cuban Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples is published.
El nuevo número del órgano del Movimiento Cubano por la Paz y la Soberanía de los Pueblos se publica.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) marked the 40th anniversary since it legal constitution, formalized in April 1976, with a number of initiatives, including the publication of a book from which we reproduce excerpts from its preface and introduction.
Preface
The present relevance of the struggle for peace
At the World Peace Council (WPC) Assembly held in Brazil in November 2016 the various Caribbean Peace Organizations that were in attendance and the WPC’s regional coordinator for the Americas and the Caribbean -the Cuban Movement for Peace and People´s Sovereignty (MovPaz)- called for the holding of the First Caribbean Peace Conference in Barbados in the year of 2017.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) organized an action in solidarity with the people of Venezuela on July 5th, day of the 206th anniversary of the Venezuelan Independence.
