Both National Stop the War and National CND have issued sensible statements about Ukraine. I hope the local groups will endorse these statements, and so I have drafted a resolution as follows: >>>>>>>>> Lewisham Stop the War / Lewisham and Greenwich CND support: - the statement on Crisis in the Ukraine issued by the Stop the War Coalition on the 3rd March 2014; - the statement Ukraine; War is not the answer issued by Kate Hudson, general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament on the 3rd March 2014. Both statements deplore the interference in Ukraine by EU, Russia and USA. Ukraine has distinct intermixed communities. It is the duty of EU, Russia and USA to promote harmony between these communities, but instead these major powers are using conflict in the Ukraine to further their own political and economic interests. We note that power sharing has been route to peace in Northern Ireland. We believe that the EU, Russia and USA should not interfere in the internal affairs of Ukraine, except jointly to facilitate discussions between the different communities. We ask that National StW and National CND should: - counter the story told by all major powers interfering in Ukraine, that it is a fight for democracy and against tyranny; - argue that it is instead an unnecessary conflict between major powers, which has a frightening parallel in 1914, when the peoples of UK, Germany and France were all told that the Great War was to be a fight for democracy. >>>>>>>>>
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:44:17 +0000
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