Genoa – Over a hundred people on duty under the prefecture to ask for a ceasefire. This is how the demonstrations in Genoa began this afternoon, one year after the outbreak of war in Ukraine. An event organized by Cgil, Cisl and Uil, Anpi and Arci, the Community of San Benedetto, Libera, Emergency and many other third sector associations.
Genoa in the streets for peace in Ukraine
“It is essential not only to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people, but also to ask for justice for all the victims of this war: an immediate ceasefire in order to truly have a Europe and a world of peace – he says Domenico ‘Megu’ Chionettispokesman for the Community of San Benedetto al Porto, founded by Don Gallo – it is essential to do so without contradictions: saying peace today sometimes risks causing dissension, in reality an immediate ceasefire is needed because the situation in the world is increasingly tense “.
A delegation of demonstrators will briefly meet the prefect, while at 18.30 part of the garrison will join the demonstration organized by the Ukrainian community and local authorities: a procession from the church of Santo Stefanoa moment of meditation in Piazza De Ferrari and the more institutional part in Palazzo Ducale.
Genoa in the streets for peace in Ukraine
“We are here to say no to war as a solution to problems between nations and peoples,” said the secretary of the Metropolitan Chamber of Labour, Igor Magni – unfortunately today we seem to see from those who govern us that this seems to be the only solution. For us it is not acceptable: we think that peace must be achieved as a victory and for this we must start putting pressure on our government so that it somehow acts on the governments of Europe and we arrive at a discussion table, a peace table. A barbarism of this type cannot continue, a massacre of this type: it must absolutely be stopped in every way”.
For Sheeba Servetto of the Uil regional secretariat, “on this dramatically important date, the message is that the world of associations must absolutely not remain indifferent. The union has taken a position from the outset and this position must be maintained as long as there are innocent civilians who will suffer the consequences of a dramatic war”.
The president of PNA Genoa, Massimo Bisca, underlines that “we hear too much talk about weapons and little about peace and there is the risk that an experience like the one in Afghanistan will be repeated in Europe. There is an arms race while it would be enough to hear the line of the neutral countries which, with Lula’s proposal, have expressed the will to be able to confront each other in order to reach peace.This does not mean that we do not condemn the aggression against Ukraine, but we are because the word negotiation is used As Anpi, we fully agree with what Pope Francis said: war is madness and only those who produce weapons get fat and it seems to me that the levels of spending that are increasing exponentially prove it”.
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