The World Peace Council (WPC) condemns strongly the decision of US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel and transfer the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The US decision is a clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions on the status of the city as part of occupied Palestinian territories. The decision is a proof of the bias of the leader of world imperialists and of his open support to the Israeli occupation and of its continuation.
It is with great concern that the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) sees the currently ongoing enhancement of the process of militarization of the European Union (EU). Militarism is, along with the curtailment of the sovereignty of States by supranational institutions dominated by the great powers and the promotion of neoliberal policies, which attack economic and social rights, one of the cornerstones of the EU - the creation of a future European army, despite persisting contradictions, being a goal long pursued by the major European powers.
Comité Ejecutivo del Consejo Mundial de la Paz (CMP), celebrado en Hanoi - Vietnam, 23 al 25 de noviembre de 2017
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Comunicado del Comité Ejecutivo del CMP
World Peace Council Executive Committee Meeting was successfully held in Hanoi, Vietnam on 23-25 November, 2017. Meeting's communique is as follows:
Communiqué of the Executive Committee of WPC, Hanoi 23-25 November 2017
Today, November 29, marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, designated by the UN.
This date marks the adoption, exactly 70 years ago, by the United Nations General Assembly of Resolution 181, which called for the division of Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, the first being constituted by 44% of the territory and the second by 55%; Jerusalem and Bethlehem would remain international zones.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) condemns the sanctions against Venezuela adopted by the European Union this past 13th and denounces them as a gross violation of International Law and an act of interference whose only aim seeks to worsen the political, economic and social situation in that country.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) welcomes the United Nations General Assembly's call for an end to the blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba and expresses its solidarity with the Cuban State and people and reiterates its confidence in their victory.
Once again, the UN General Assembly adopted on November 1 a new resolution stressing the need to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba. Of the 193 Member States, 191 voted in favour and only the US and Israel voted against it.
This November marks the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, a turning point in the history of Palestine and of the Palestinian people in the last seven decades. In this secret message, sent by the then British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour to the Zionist leader Walter Rothschild, the British empire supported by the creation of a "national home for the Jewish people in Palestine" and the best endeavours "to achieve this objective”. At the same time, publicly, the British authorities made empty promises to the Arab populations, which they would never fulfil.
Speech by Socorro Gomes, President of the World Peace Council, at the commemorations of the Centennial of the October Revolution, events of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
November 2017 | Saint Petersburg and Moscow, Russia
Dear comrades,
Dear comrades of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation,
Discurso de Socorro Gomes, Presidenta del Consejo Mundial de la Paz, en las conmemoraciones del Centenario de la Revolución de Octubre, eventos del Partido Comunista de la Federación Rusa
Noviembre de 2017 | San Petersburgo y Moscú, Rusia
Queridas compañeras e y queridos compañeros,
Estimados compañeros del Partido Comunista de la Federación Rusa.
