VI International Seminar on Peace and the Abolition of the Foreign Military Bases

May 2-8, 2019

The World Council for Peace, the Cuban Movement for Peace and the Sovereignty of Peoples (MOVPAZ) and the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP), with the co-sponsorship of the Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL), the Martin Luther King Jr. Center (CMLK) and the Oscar Arnulfo Romero Reflection Group, call for the VI International Seminar on Peace and the Abolition of the Foreign Military Bases to be held in Guantánamo, Cuba, from May 4 to 6, 2019.

https://proximitycuba.com/international-programs/open-programs/vi-international-seminar-on-peace

Once again, the importance and full validity of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace approved by all the Heads of State and Government of the Region meeting in Havana in January 2014, during the II Summit of CELAC will be reiterated.

Once more, this 6th edition of the Seminar will be held in the city of Guantánamo, capital of the homonymous province, where exists the oldest US military base in the world, which also functions today as an international center of torture and Human Rights Violations (Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp) that arouses the repudiation of people who love peace all over the planet.

This seminar will once again bring together fighters for peace and against-war solidarity friends of Cuba and friends of the most just causes of the peoples, in order to demand the elimination of foreign bases and facilities from the countries of our region and from the whole world, as well as the cessation of the militaristic and arms race that US imperialism develops along with its NATO and Israel allies and that sets the world in the forefront of a new world conflagration.

Likewise, it will be held at a time when a great offensive of imperialism and the Latin American oligarchies are going against the democratic and progressive processes of the continent. This imperialistic offensive attempts to reverse by all means, the achievements of progressive governments in defense of their peoples and their genuine independence and sovereignty through political and media tricks and infamies, as well as through the implementation of mechanisms of economic extortion and through the tendency to deal with political issues through the courts

This International Seminar will also take place in the context of the intensification of hostile and aggressive policies of the new US Administration against Cuba, which has unilaterally imposed a setback to the process of normalization of relations between the two countries initiated in December 2014 and that is committed to strengthen the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade against the largest of the Antilles. It will be a space to strengthen the Global Coalition against the Military Bases of the United States and NATO approved in Dublin, Ireland; and within the framework of this VI Seminar the "World Day for Peace and against Foreign Military Bases” will be officially constituted on February 23.

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