The World Peace Council (WPC) expresses its deepest concern and worries about the war preparations of the USA and its allies in the Middle East and in particular against Iran. The high
concentration of military power of the USA, amongst others, with two aircaft carriers and the
deployment of troops in neighbour countries, the encirclement of Iran by dozens of US, UK and NATO military bases and the respective war rhetoric are more than a sign for a planned attack on Iran.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) denounces and rejects the possibility of national territory being used again for interference and aggression against other States and peoples – let us recall the invasion of Iraq, whose war summit was held at Lajes Air Base, with the assistance of Durão Barroso – and demands a firm stance from the Government against the use of Lajes Air Base for a US military aggression against Iran.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) vehemently condemns the successive violations of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip perpetrated by Israel, which continues to bomb, kill and injure the Palestinian people and prevent the entry of humanitarian aid, which remains manifestly insufficient to meet the needs in a territory totally devastated by Israel's genocidal war, with basic infrastructure completely destroyed and subjected to a particularly severe winter.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) repudiates and firmly condemns the further escalation in the aggression and economic siege of Cuba by the US, with the imposition of coercive measures on countries that sell or supply oil to Cuba, and expresses its solidarity with the Cuban people who have been fighting and resisting heroically, for more than 60 years, the criminal and illegal blockade imposed by the US, in clear violation of the UN Charter and international law, demanding and defending their right to sovereignty, development, and to live in peace.
In the late afternoon of the 27th, the rain and wind did not prevent another protest action in solidarity with the peoples of Latin America and demanding an end to US aggression against Venezuela.
In Setúbal, at Praça do Bocage, the speeches by Rui Garcia, from CPPC, and Luís Leitão, from the Union of Trade Unions of Setúbal, presented by Teresa Oliveira, from Projeto Ruído, made clear the condemnation of US aggression against Venezuela, the demand for compliance with international law, and the denunciation of the continuation of threats to countries in Latin America.
On January 27, 1945, exactly 81 years ago, the Red Army of the Soviet Union liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. In this complex of concentration, extermination, and slave labor camps, like other similar camps, millions of people were murdered: political opponents, trade unionists, prisoners of war, Slavs, Jews, Roma, homosexuals, and people with disabilities.
On January 15th, The Portugal-Cuba Friendship Association, the Portuguese Association of Democratic Jurists, the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers-Intersindical Nacional, the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation, the Democratic Women's Movement, and the Ruído Project - Youth Association, continuing their action to demand an end to US aggression and threats against Venezuela and other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the release of President Nicolás Maduro and Deputy Cília Flores, and respect for international law and the Charter of the United Nations, issued a
On January 13th, in the late afternoon, a public session was held at Casa do Alentejo in Lisbon, addressing the situation in Latin America, denouncing the US aggression against Venezuela, and expressing solidarity with the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean!
The speakers, who were received with great applause, were the Venezuelan Ambassador, Mary Flores, the Cuban Ambassador, José Ramón Saborido Loidi, Moara Crivelente, from CEBRAPAZ, Pedro Prolaa, from the PT (Workers' Party) branch in Lisbon, and Sandra Pereira from the Portugal-Cuba Friendship Association.
Mobilized by the CPPC and the Portugal-Cuba Friendship Association (AAPC), dozens of people gathered near the statue of Simón Bolívar in Lisbon in the late afternoon of Tuesday, December 16, to protest against US threats against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and to express their solidarity with the peoples of Latin America.
To the Cuban Institute for the Friendship of the Peoples (ICAP)
To the attention of Fernando Gonzalez Llort, President
Dear Comrade Fernando and dear Comrades of the ICAP
