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Counter-celebration
in Florence of the 70th anniversary of NATO
Manlio
Dinucci
The 70th anniversary of NATO was celebrated by
the 29 Ministers of Foreign Affairs, not at NATO headquarters in Brussels, but
at its headquarters in Washington. The Master of Ceremonies was the General
Secretary of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, who restricted himself to announcing the
opening speech by Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.
NATO – explained the State Department – is
important because, due to its existence, « the United States can better
handle, either by military or political force, any global threat against their
interests - NATO remains fundamentaly dedicated to military operations by the
USA in the transAtlantic region (in other words, Europe) or in other
strategically critical areas, like the Middle East and Southern Asia ».
So it is the State Department which states quite
clearly that NATO is an instrument of the
United States. There was no political reaction from Italy.
The only response came from the Symposium
organised by the Comitato No Guerra No Nato and by Global Research, the research centre
directed by Michel Chossudovsky (Montreal). The Symposium united about six
hundred participants at the Odeon cinema-theatre in Florence on 7 April.
The conclusions are set
out in the
DECLARATION OF FLORENCE
FOR AN INTERNATIONAL FRONT NATO EXIT
The risk of a vast war
which, with the use of nuclear weapons, could mean the end of Humanity, is real
and growing, even though it is not noticed by the general public, which is
maintained in the ignorance of this imminent danger.
A strong engagement to
find a way out of the war system is of vital importance. This raises the
question of the affiliation of Italy and other European countries with NATO.
NATO is not an Alliance.
It is an organisation under the command of the Pentagon, and its objective is
the military control of Western and Eastern Europe.
US bases in the member
countries of NATO serve to occupy these countries, by maintaining a permanent
military presence which enables Washington to influence and control their
policies and prevent genuine democratic choices.
NATO is a war machine
which operates for the interests of the United States, with the complicity of
the major European power groups which made them guilty of crimes against
Humanity.
NATO's war of aggression
in 1999 against Yugoslavia paved the way for the globalization of military
interventions, with wars against Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and other countries,
in complete violation of the international law.
These wars are financed
by the member countries, whose military budgets are increasing continually to
the detriment of social expenditure, in order to support colossal military
programmes like that of the US nuclear programme which costs US $ 1.2 trillion.
In violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the USA is deploying nuclear weapons in five non-nuclear NATO States, under the false pretext of the ''Russian menace''. By doing so, they are risking the security of Europe.
To exit the war system
which is causing more and more damage and exposing us to increasing dangers, we
must leave NATO, affirming our rights as sovereign and neutral States.
In this way, it becomes
possible to contribute to the dismantling of NATO and all other military
alliances, to the reconfiguration of the structures of the whole European
region, to the formation of a multipolar world where the aspirations of the
People for liberty and social justice may be realised.
We propose the creation
of a NATO EXIT International Front in all the European member countries of
NATO, by building an organisational network at a basic level strong enough to
support the very difficult struggle we must face in order to attain this
objective, which is vital for our future.
COMITATO NO GUERRA NO
NATO/GLOBAL RESEARCH,
Firenze (Italia),
07:04:2019
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