By Waldo Mendiluza, special envoy
Brussels, Jul 17 (Prensa Latina) Social movements and progressive political forces from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean will lead today the installation of the Brussels-2023 People’s Summit, a space to outline the construction of a more just world.
The two-day forum based at the Free University of Brussels is appreciated as a scenario of struggle for the right of peoples to peace and sovereignty, and at the same time a meeting to dream of that world without marginalized or relations of domination North South.
The People’s Summit will meet in parallel to the III Summit between the European Union (EU),the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) and not by chance, but as a sign that millions of people on both sides of the Atlantic look to their leaders with the claim that they bet on ties of mutual respect and benefit.
One of the topics to be discussed will be the search for peace in a complex global context, and in this regard, MEP Manu Pineda called on the community bloc of 27 member states to imitate the example of Celac, which declared itself in 2014 in Havana as a Peace Zone.
Europe must also move in that direction, it is urgent to stop fueling the war and to abandon the prevailing geopolitical escalation, the member of the Left Group in the European Parliament told Prensa Latina.
Likewise, he asserted that the forum that will attract social, union and solidarity organizations, and progressive political forces, will be an opportunity to demand bi-regional ties without submission to the hegemonic vision of the United States.
The People’s Summit will also include on its first day a panel on the economic, commercial and financial blockade that the United States has applied against Cuba for more than 60 years.
In the context of the debate, an international tribunal will be launched, to be held in November, to denounce the siege imposed by Washington on the island.
The role of the media, the ecological transition and the urgency of having a social approach, decolonization, the capitalist crisis and the debt will also stand out in the discussions.
For the president of the Intel Globalize Solidarity movement, Paula Andrea Polanco, the People’s Summit is presented as a necessary space, in order to demand that the EU abandon its vision of colonization and interference in countries on the other side of the Atlantic They do not accept the hegemony that the centers of power try to dictate.
We will defend three principles during the forum in Brussels: respect for sovereignty and self-determination, respect for Celac’s decision on peace and support for the scenario of the emergence of a multipolar world, she told Prensa Latina.
The parallel summit to that of heads of state and government will provide a final declaration, a document of struggle and also of dreams.
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