Tale af Koordinatoren for Verdensmarchen
for Fred og ikkevold, Rafael de la Rubia,
på møde i FN
D. 9.05.09 fra Lars Kristensen <larskk@gmail.com> Verdensmarchen for fred og ikkevold
Kære alle
Rafael de la Rubia, præsident for World Without Wars og international
koordinator og talsmand for Verdensmachen, har deltaget i et møde i FN. Hans
tale er indkopieret nedenfor.
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Tale af Rafael de la Rubia, præsident for World Without Wars og international
koordinator og talsmand for Verdensmachen,:
Dear
friends
First of
all, I'd like to thank the permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations,
the host of this gathering, other delegations, individuals and organisations
that are accompanying us and very specially the members of "World without
Wars" and humanists from New York that have made this presentation of the
"World March for Peace and Nonviolence" at the United Nations
possible.
The first
thing to answer is: what is this march?
It's an action at a global level, the first action of this scale, asking
for Peace and Nonviolence. The WM
emerged as a response to the increase in violence in all sectors and spheres of
society, from inter-governmental levels down to the spheres of daily life. This is happening in all countries of the
planet. We are in a violent world in
which we have to find new paths that open the future for us as individuals, as
nations and also as the whole of humanity.
The WM is
trying to help to find these new responses stressing that we have to re-pose
the concept of Peace. We have to go
deeper in its conception.
It's not
possible that governments speak of peace at the same time as they have weapons
factories fully functioning.
It's not
possible to speak of peace at the same time as invading countries.
It's not
possible that 3 trillion dollars are invested in weapons and nothing is
targeted to stop the death of more than 165,000 people who are dying today, the
product of global hunger. 60 million in
2008 according to data that came from here, the United Nations. When only 0.01% of that spending on weapons
would be able to feed these people.
Humanity is
clamouring for a world where these things don't happen.
Besides, as
E. Galeano said, "Wars need weapons and weapons need wars". If we produce weapons they end up being used.
To advance
in this situation we want to create a consciousness of the need for Peace. We have recent examples. Consciousness has been created about ecology
over a short time, just a few decades.
Today the whole world knows that it is not good to pollute. This was not evident a few years ago. We want to create a consciousness that we can
modify things. We want to create a
consciousness that the solutions are in the hands of the people. Governments are going to act if there is
popular pressure, if there is social pressure, and better if it's global
pressure.
There are
moments where politicians set the directions of nations and there are moments
where the people have to set the direction for politicians.
So we
should not only cry out that we want peace but rather that we are going to work
to achieve and maintain it.
The march
is the response to the seriousness of the world situation, with an economic
crisis, all of whose consequences we still do not see, some of those will be
very serious.
Equally serious
is the situation of nuclear weapons.
That's why the works in these days by all social sectors here in the
United Nations to prepare the next NPT conference in 2010 are very good.
So we have
to mobilise. Each one can do what they
can, some more than others. But with the
contribution of many we can build this great social force.
How is the
WM proposed? What will be done?
Starting on
the 2nd of October, simultaneously in many cities all kinds of activities will
start to take place: marches, festivals, forums, demonstrations, debates,
cultural and artistic activities, etc.
This same day, a small team of some 50 people, will start a sequential
journey, a symbolic journey that, starting in Wellington, New Zealand, will end
in Punta de Vacas, Argentina, after a journey through 6 continents including
the Antarctic. To this sequential
journey there have been added numerous new routes until the March has become a
dense web.
What is the
current situation of the WM today?
The World
March is growing day by day with new contributions. It was started by the humanist association
"World without Wars" with an initial journey through 40 countries and
today there are over 90. These are the
numbers: 300 cities, 700 initiatives, 800 personalities, 1800 organisations,
200 universities and educational centres, 150 mayors and councils, 4 Presidents
(Bachelet, Kirchner, Mesic of Croatia, Ramos-Horta of East Timor). There are important Latin American presidents
who are about to confirm their support.
Nobel Prize
winners: the Dalai Lama, Rigoberta Menchu, Saramago; Intellectuals: Noam
Chomsky, Federico Mayor Zaragoza and Eduardo Galeano.
All of you
know artists such as Viggo Mortensen, Joan Manual Serrat, Noa from Israel and
Juanes. Yesterday I found out that
Penelope Cruz is endorsing. All of them
decisively supporting this WM.
From
another direction, the WM is being enriched with contents.
We are
receiving contributions that we want to incorporate into the WM. Yesterday we met with Jonathan Granoff,
co-author of the "Charter for a World without Violence", a document
endorsed by 19 Nobel Peace Prize winners.
We are
convinced that adherence to the principles of nonviolence will usher in a more
peaceful, civilized world order in which more effective and fair governance,
respectful of human dignity and the sanctity of life itself may become a
reality.
Our
cultures, our histories, and our individual lives are interconnected and our
actions are interdependent.
Especially
today as never before, we believe, a truth lies before us: our destiny is a
common destiny. That destiny will be defined by our intentions, decisions and
actions today.
We are
firmly convinced that creating a culture of peace and nonviolence, while a
difficult and long process is a necessary and noble purpose. Affirmation of the
principles contained in this Charter is a vital first step to ensuring the
survival and development of humanity and the achievement of a world without
violence.
We, Nobel
Peace Laureates and Laureate Organizations,
Also
yesterday we met here with Mayor Akiba, President of Mayors for Peace, who have
endorsed the WM. They are advancing the
"Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol", of which this is an extract.
Desiring to
establish an over-arching means of addressing nuclear disarmament in all its
aspects so as to facilitate the fulfilment by States Parties of their
obligations under Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons, and with a view to all states fulfilling the nuclear disarmament
obligation found by the International Court of Justice in their 1996 advisory
opinion on the legality of the use or threat of nuclear weapons;
We take
this opportunity to highlight the principle objectives of the WM:
" Total elimination of nuclear
weapons
" Withdrawal of armies that
are occupying foreign states.
" Signing of non-aggression
treaties.
" Proportional disarmament,
reducing weapons spending.
" Renunciation of war on the
part of States as a form of resolving conflicts, as is recognised in the new
Bolivian constitution of Evo Morales.
This World
March that we are presenting today in the headquarters of the United Nations
has the basic objectives of creating consciousness that the only way is that of
Peace and that it's necessary to accompany this Peace with the methodology of
Nonviolence so that we may truly enter into a new stage for humanity.
The WM is
becoming a multiplying and simultaneous phenomenon in the whole world. We have indicators that we are going in the
direction of becoming the biggest demonstration for peace in history. But we need the support of you all for this
to succeed.
For this,
it only remains for me to invite you to this great challenge: that together we
disseminate and make this proposal known among all the delegations of the
countries that are represented in the United Nations in such a way that they
can decide whether or not to participate in it.
We have two
important milestones. The first is the
opening of the next UN Assembly in September where all Heads of States of the
world will come together and the second is when the WM arrives at the United
Nations on the 1st of December.
To finish,
I have been asked to recall the text of the first global launch of the WM that
was made last November.
… seeking
food and shelter those first inhabitants penetrated deep into inhospitable and
unknown lands, where they struggled against, beasts, elements and forces of
nature. It was this way for millennia. At the end of that great age the whole planet
was populated.
In another
age, seeking wealth, possessions and adventures, a few people subjugated
others. They massacred and enslaved,
appropriating their goods, their resources, their bodies and their minds. So they have been travelling the whole world
sewing subjugation, hunger, misery, illness and pain - a lot of pain.
But today
times of renovation have arrived, in which the human being once more travels
planet earth. Not to satisfy hunger, nor
to enslave or rob others, but rather to extend a hand in recognition of a
brother, to reconcile, to collaborate, to build the bases for a new culture, a
new civilisation that has never before existed on Earth. So that we may decisively build the Universal
Human Nation…
The times
in which the human being, decided to stand up, converging from different races,
beliefs and generations, for the first time in history in a common endeavour: a
great march that travelled the world moving the human consciousness and heart…
Thanks for
you attention
New York,
6th of May 2009
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