The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) joins the Appeal Yes to Peace! No to War and to the Arms Race! promoted by personalities from the most diverse areas, and publicly presented on May 12, in Porto.
Responding affirmatively to this Appeal, the CPPC calls on organisations, associations, community groups and personalities that defend peace and share the principles, concerns and considerations expressed by these personalities, to do so as well.

The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) was represented at the X Congress of the Youth Union of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (UJSARIO), which took place from the May 20 to 23, in the refugee camps in Bojour, Tindouf , in Argelia.

On completing 20 years of existence of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) warmly salutes the Timorese people.

On May 20, 2002, the Timorese people achieved full independence and sovereignty after a hard and prolonged resistance and struggle for self-determination and affirmation of their cultural identity.

On the occasion of the 74th. anniversary of the Nakba – an Arabic word meaning “catastrophe”, with which the Palestinians name the expulsion from their lands at the time of the creation of the State of Israel, on May 15, 1948 –, the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) salutes the Palestinian people's resistance against the Israeli occupation and oppression and reaffirms its solidarity with their just struggle for respect and fulfilment of their national rights.

It is with concern that the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation views the intention already expressed by the authorities of Finland and Sweden to join NATO, thus breaking with decades of neutral status and the search for peaceful coexistence with all its neighbouring countries, rejecting the logic of political-military blocs.

The Polisario Front has played a decisive role in the struggle against colonialism and for the recognition of the inalienable right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and to a free, independent and sovereign homeland according to their will.

The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) hails Victory Day, May 9, the date on which World War II formally ended in Europe, with the surrender of what remained of the military forces of Nazi Germany. Seventy-seven years ago, after more than fifty million dead and thirty million wounded and maimed, the deadliest and most destructive war in all human history finally ended.

To mark this event today takes on added and particular significance, given the threats that Humanity faces in the current global context.

Every month holds reasons related to the history of the peace movement that deserve to be signalled – among these, April assumes a particular meaning.

On April 25, 1974, the Revolution was, itself, an act of peace, paving the way to the end of the colonial wars, to the creation of new countries whose people conquered their national independence or to the full relationship of Portugal with all the peoples of the world.

The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) salutes the 48th. anniversary of the April Revolution, one of the most notable events in the history of Portugal.

On this date, we honour the April soldiers and all the men and women who fought against the dictatorship in factories, fields and schools, paving the way for the revolution, which made it possible to respond to the just aspirations of our people who for decades longed for a society of freedom, justice, progress, fraternity and peace.

Since 1974, April 17 marks an international day to express solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners who remain in Israeli prisons.

There are thousands of Palestinian political prisoners, including minors, who are jailed in Israeli prisons, many of them under so-called administrative detentions - arbitrary detentions, issued by the Israeli military and approved by its military courts, which can be continually renewed, imposing years of imprisonment without charges or trial.