Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:03:25 -0700
From: wslf at earthlink.net
To: ufpj-disarm at yahoogroups.com; ufpj-activist at lists.mayfirst.org; upj-bayarea at lists.riseup.net
Subject: [ufpj-activist] UFPJ Statement: Moving Away From War in Ukraine
On 3/24/2015 2:39 PM, United for Peace
& Justice wrote:
Action Network Email
The Ukraine conflict
continues to fester, raising
tensions in the region to
levels not seen since the
Cold War. Now the warring
parties have agreed to a
ceasefire and an approach to
further negotiations towards
a political solution.
Despite this opportunity to
move towards peace, the
United States, NATO, and
Russia are throwing fuel on
the fire. The U.S. is
sending troops to Ukraine to
train Ukraine’s armed
forces, NATO is holding
joint military maneuvers
from the Baltic to the Black
Sea, and Russia is
conducting massive exercises
of its own that include
forward deployment of
nuclear-capable missiles and
bombers. It’s time
for the countries that are
providing support from
outside Ukraine to halt
and reverse all actions
that contribute to this
war and to the growing
confrontation in Europe.
The Ukraine conflict has
become a complex proxy war
involving four of the
world’s five original
nuclear armed countries: the
United States, Russia,
France, and the United
Kingdom. The extent of
support provided by outside
powers remains unclear,
obscured by virulent nonstop
propaganda campaigns
promulgated by all sides.
The Ukraine war has also
become both a cause and an
excuse for the ratcheting up
of tensions between the U.S.
and its NATO allies and
Russia.
In addition to the
immediate dangers of war,
the climate of confrontation
has put further progress
towards nuclear disarmament
on hold. It also has given
the military-industrial
complexes on both sides a
rationale for the resumption
of conventional arms racing
and nuclear weapons
modernization. The people of
the Ukraine are the victims,
their country a battleground
of competing plutocracies.
The Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists has moved the
hands of its Doomsday Clock
up to 3 minutes to midnight,
citing the existential
threats posed by nuclear
weapons and climate
change.It’s time to step
back from the brink. We
call on all of the
governments involved to
take steps to reduce
tensions, to lessen the
danger of an expanded war,
and to provide space and
build confidence for
negotiations to resolve
the Ukraine conflict and
the growing confrontation
between Russia and the
U.S. and its NATO allies.
These steps should
include:
No military assistance
to Ukraine, whether arms,
trainers, advisors, or
“nonlethal” aid;
Unconditional
humanitarian assistance
directed to ordinary
people in all of Ukraine’s
regions, sustaining social
benefits and public
services and aiding in
reconstruction of housing
and public infrastructure;
Diplomatic initiatives
to encourage Ukrainians
engaged in the conflict to
enter into good faith
negotiations in an effort
to reach a political
resolution;
No additional
deployments of U.S.
forces, equipment, or
supplies to Europe;
Reversal of NATO
decisions to expand rapid
reaction forces and
supporting infrastructure
in Eastern Europe, and
particularly in states on
Russia’s borders;
Termination of U.S.
programs to deploy U.S.
ballistic missile defenses
in Europe;
A moratorium on military
exercises by all parties
in and around Ukraine and
European states bordering
Russia;
A moratorium on
exercises and tests of
nuclear-armed forces
world-wide;
Immediate removal of
U.S. nuclear weapons from
Europe; and
In this 70th year since
the U.S. atomic bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki and
45 years after the U.S.,
Russia, and the U.K.
committed in the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty to
negotiate in good faith for
an end of the nuclear arms
race and the elimination of
nuclear arsenals, immediate
commencement of negotiations
encompassing all
nuclear-armed states for the
elimination of nuclear
weapons.
UFPJ
member groups have
authored their own
statements on the Ukraine
crisis:
The
Western States Legal
Foundation
Commentary, "Ukraine:
Time to Step Back From
the Brink", is
at http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/wslfukrainecommentary-2-15.pdf
The
Women's International
League for Peace and
Freedom, US Section
Statement, "No
United States Military
Aid to Ukraine!",
is at http://wilpfus.org/news/updates/no-united-states-military-aid-ukraine
US
Peace Council, "Ukraine:
Are We Still Under the
Spell of Cold War
Propaganda?",
is at http://www.unitedforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Peace-in-Ukraine-_-USPeaceCouncilB2B.pdf
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