{"id":3363,"date":"2022-12-30T19:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agora-humanite.org\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2022-12-30T19:18:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:18:14","slug":"lettre-ouverte-aux-gouvernements-des-pays-mediterraneens-a-loccasion-du-1er-janvier-journee-mondiale-de-la-paix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agora-humanite.org\/en\/lettre-ouverte-aux-gouvernements-des-pays-mediterraneens-a-loccasion-du-1er-janvier-journee-mondiale-de-la-paix\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to the Government of the Mediterranean Countries on January 1st, International Day of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are citizens of the Mediterranean, gathered in the Convention on the rights of the
\nMediterranean, signed in Palermo on 19 March 2022, by 97 people, coming from 20 countries
\nbordering our sea. The intent of the Convention is to create a permanent community of
\nconfrontation and collaboration capable of restoring centrality to the Mediterranean identity
\nand making it a space that creates humanity and participatory democracy.
\nMayors, Associations, Personalities from the world of culture are committed to creating ever
\ncloser links between civil society in the Mediterranean and national institutions.
\nToday more than ever it is essential that this area of the world, the cradle of one of the most
\nancient civilizations, with extraordinary historical, artistic, cultural and landscape heritages,
\njoin forces to contribute to social and civil development, as an example of peaceful and fruitful
\ncoexistence.
\nThe Mediterranean must become an area of peace, of true cooperation, of rejection of the violent
\nand oppressive logic that is seriously endangering humanity.
\nWe would like to see crowned the unanimous aspiration of the peoples of the nations that you
\nrepresent for a future aimed exclusively at the well-being of people, animals, air and water.
\nFreedom, respect for differences and collective and individual identities, hospitality,
\nbrotherhood, love for the Earth and its inhabitants of all species, are the characteristics that
\nunite the peoples of the Mediterranean.
\nWars, occupations, local conflicts, violence, oppression, cause unspeakable suffering to those
\nwho suffer them.
\nWe ask for a profound commitment from your governments to initiate a process that will lead
\nto the declaration of the “Mediterranean Sea of peace, which unites peoples and their cultures”.
\nA nuclear-free, demilitarized, neutral Mediterranean.
\nThe threat of a nuclear conflict that will lead to the destruction of humanity is very strong and
\nconcrete.
\nAfter the failure of the blitzkrieg In Ukraine, started on February 24th by a mad decision of the
\nRussian authorities, due to the strong reaction of the Ukrainian people and the massive aid of
\nweapons and means provided by NATO and the EU are precipitating the world towards
\ncatastrophe of a generalized world war.
\nPeace must be preserved through negotiation, not by seeking an impossible total victory.
\nWar is only the most evidently catastrophic outcome of an intrinsically destructive and biocidal
\nsocial, cultural, and economic system. A system sick with greed. Obsessed with the growth of
\neconomic values and which pushes towards permanent competition for the grabbing of
\nresources and markets, causing, in addition to wars, global warming, the destruction of
\nbiodiversity, the poisoning of the seas, air, earth, zoonotic pandemics.
\nAll the companies involved in the armaments and equipment production market are getting rich,
\ndiverting resources from the civil economy. The war economy becomes the continuation and
\nextension of the market economy. The integration between systems of “production” and
\nsystems of “destruction” is increasingly highlighted in a logic of increasingly destructive
\ncompetition.
\nIt is necessary to emancipate oneself from everything that generates war, it is not tameable,
\nregulated, juridical. War is a crime.
\nAccording to us citizens of the Mediterranean, war must be abolished at its root, through
\ncomplete disarmament, starting with nuclear, anti-personnel, chemical, bacteriological, robotic,
\nwhite phosphorus and depleted uranium weapons. The only effective form of deterrence and
\nprevention of war is the prohibition of the use of weapons.
\nWars operate a systematic destruction of structures and infrastructures, including warehouses,
\nfactories, power plants, generating all kinds of pollution. The presence of active or
\ndecommissioned nuclear power plants on the terrain of war constitutes in itself a danger on a
\nglobal scale. Even the countryside and ecosystems are not spared from the fury of war, wildlife
\nis exterminated. Biodiversity cancelled.
\nWars are a holocaust of human and non-human lives, a gigantic waste of economic assets and
\npublic resources, an unspeakable aggravation of natural environmental conditions, a
\ndetermining factor of the ongoing biocide, of overstepping the planetary ecological limits of
\nthe Earth system.
\nA powerful voice rises from the peoples of the Mediterranean asking: Peace and Prosperity of
\nthe Communities.
\nAs a member of the International Movement for Ecological and Social Justice, we feel part of
\nthe movement of non-violent civil disobedience against war, rearmament, nuclear.
\nIn order to win peace, it is necessary to mobilize the cultural resources, the reasonable, the
\ndemocratic ethos, the desire for justice which animates people, and which persists even when
\nthey are oppressed.
\nWe look to you, Ambassadors of the Mediterranean Nations to initiate a process leading to a
\nPeace Conference in the Mediterranean. Civil Society will support with all its strength all the
\nefforts you make in this direction.
\nThank you for your attention
\nMediterranean Sea, January 1st 2023<\/em>
\nThe Convention on the Rights of the Mediterranean.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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