PEACEFUL – ANTIWAR MOVEMENT Peaceful-antiwar-movement-ΚΦ (1)
FOR A PEACEFUL – ANTIWAR MOVEMENT IN EUROMEDITERRANEAN AREA
Athens, March 2018
One of the slogans used by the older "Friends of Peace" was "Destroy the Weapons
before the Weapons Destroy Humanity." Nowadays, following the developments in
Syria, the threats and tensions in the Aegean and in the Euromediterranean area, this
slogan becomes more relevant than in the past and is updated: "Stop the wars now
before the wars destroy the humanity."
Next to the trade wars, caused by the inability for multilateral international trade
agreements with fair rules, within the framework of UN and the WTO, due to US and
EU neo-liberal policies that have opted for bilateral trade agreements in favor of
multinational companies through TTIP, CETA, TISA , etc., there are also new forms of
trade wars and regional conflicts concerning mainly the controlling of production
places and hydrocarbon trade corridors.
Progressive decouple from fossil fuels and switching to alternative, environmentally
friendly sources of energy could help to reduce geopolitical pressures and wars led by
explorations and hydrocarbon mining.
Particularly, after the Arab Spring of 2011, we observe a new intensity of Regional
conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in Ukraine and national
frictions in the Western Balkans.
The new European EU's strategy towards the creation of alternative hydrocarbon
supply routes from the Middle East, the South-East Mediterranean, the Aegean, the
Adriatic and the Balkans, along with the US Multinationals intervention, have
brought in confrontation mainly the Russia, Turkey and Iran with the US and the EU
in the areas of control of hydrocarbon resources in their future paths to Europe.
Instead of resolving individual differences on the basis of international law and the
principles of the UN on sustainable development, respecting the National States
sovereign and the Law of the Sea, we see, instead of this cooperation of the states
towards a win-win strategy for the benefit of people, the disastrous regional conflicts
to be developed. These include either attempts to cancel international decisions by
the United States on the establishment and harmonious coexistence of an
independent Palestinian State with Israel, or a revision of international treaties such
as Lausanne Treaty from Turkey, which militarily invaded into Syrian and Kurdish Afrin
area and with warships into the Inclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of Cyprus,
or through the reshuffling of borders and through third-countries devastating warfare
that continue for 7 years in Syria.
The ISIS terrorist groups have been crushed in the battlefields but the war tragedy
with the bombing of civilians and children continues to cause Syria hundreds of
thousands of innocent dead people and millions of refugees.
NATO is a residue of the cold war, which does not contribute to the consolidation of
peaceful coexistence and fair cooperation in the modern world.
The European Union, in all of its Member States, either refuses to accept part of the
refugees and to promote integration policies, or has an institutional weakness and a
lack of progressive political will and coherence to intervene towards a peaceful
settlement of transnational disputes based on the principles of international law and
the UN.