To Build a Community of a Shared Future for Mankind

Iraklis Tsavdaridis

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To Build a Community of a Shared Future for Mankind

Iraklis Tsavdaridis

Executive Secretary of the World Peace Council, Greece

Dear Comrades and Friends of the CPAPD Distinguished Mayor of the city of Nanjing and Peace Loving Friends from this martyr city

Dear fellow participants in this conference

On behalf of the WPC, we convey our most cordial greetings to the CPAPD and through you to the peace loving people of the PR China.

It is with pleasure to visit one more time China and it is with feelings of great respect to visit Nanjing, 80 years after the massacre created by the Japanese invaders, one of the cruelest act of barbarity in history with hundreds of thousands of slaughtered civilians of all age.

The WPC expresses its sympathy and solidarity with the people and city of Nanjing.

As WPC we are engaged in many dozens of countries, trying to uncover the roots for the wars, the invasions, occupation and foreign interference in internal affairs of sovereign countries, denouncing the forces which act in front and behind the scenes, violating International Law and the principles of the UN founding Charter.

All the above can be observed today in many corners of the world which is becoming increasingly threatened by the imperialist aggressiveness and the interests of the Multinational Corporations who are seeking for new energy resources and raw materials, for new markets and spheres of influence in order to multiply their profits. Where the political manipulation, imposition and sanctions are not sufficient for the “color revolutions”, the imperialists are not hesitating to use the brutal military force for violent regime changes with massive loss of lives of civilians, huge flow of millions of refugees and displaced people. It is not a secret that in today’s world, the USA, its allies from the European Union and NATO are major aggressors, despite differences and antagonisms between them. All these affect also Russia and China their economic competitors who are faced with sanctions, trade war, but also by installing military bases and “missile defense shields” around their borders, in order to secure a possible first strike option, including a nuclear one, without the possibility of retaliation.

The lessons we draw from the history and in particular from the Nanjing massacre 80 years ago, are that the peoples have to identify and fight against the aggressors, to resist and to struggle for their freedom, their independence and sovereignty. In our minds and hearts are many cases of peoples under such conditions, but allow us to underline the cases of the peoples of the Middle East, the peoples of Syria, Iraq, Yemen and especially the heroic people of Palestine, victim of the Israeli occupation for 70 years, suffering from a slow genocide and by the complicity of the forces who fully back the Israeli regime, such as the USA and the EU.

We declare our solidarity with the peoples in Latin America, in particular with the Socialist Cuba and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, both victims of the US imperialism. Having been few days ago in Pyongyang in the DPR Korea for the celebrations of its 70th founding anniversary, we express our hopes, however being cautious, that a new path of normalization of the DPRK-USA relations has opened. Nevertheless we demand the withdrawal of the US troops from South Korea, the end of the joint military exercises between USA-Japan-South Korea and support the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. We support the independent peaceful reunification of Korea.

The WPC expresses its solidarity with the people of China and denounces the actions and plans to interfere in the internal affairs of China by the USA and its allies, as seen with the cases of the Tibet, the efforts to manipulate and use minorities such as the Uighurs in Xinjang province or other religious pretexts such as the Falungong.

Likewise we support the one-China policy regarding Taiwan.

Dear friends and fellow fighters for a world peace and social justice!

The WPC supports all initiatives which can emancipate the peoples and bring their interests to the forefront for the needs and aspirations of the vast majority in each society, for a world free from imperialist domination, hegemony and exploitation, for a world where the peoples will live in peace and together in prosperity as masters of their wealth and of their destiny.

From Nanjing, the city which faced and suffered the barbarity 80 years ago we send a message to the peace loving peoples of the world and our solidarity to the just causes of the peoples fighting to become the masters of their fortunes in a world of peace and prosperity, free from imperialist domination and exploitation.