2023 World Conference against A and H Bombs
International Meeting – Session 3
Ulla Klötzer
Women for Peace – Finland/
Active in Global Women for Peace United Against NATOFinland

First of all my warmest and most grateful thanks for having been invited
to this extremely impressive and important event at one of the mosttragic places in human history, where a huge superpower – the US –committed a brutal and never to be forgotten and forgiven crime against
humanity.
We, who have gathered for this event – and all human beings around theworld that care about Mother Earth and her inhabitants - have a moral
obligation to prevent that such an unforgivable crime shall ever becommitted again.
In order to do this we have to do our utmost to dissolve NATO – thestrongest war machinery in the world encircling Russia and now also China
in order to pursue the geopolitical and economic interests of the Westernworld, and above all the United States.
As long as this worldwide enlargement of NATO – a holocaust nuclear
alliance - goes on, nuclear weapon countries and nuclear weapon hosting
countries will never sign the TPNW Treaty.
Although the situation seems impossible to solve - and many of us feelrather desperate – there are small glimpses of hope.
Since March this year Women for Peace in Finland- in our home country
looked upon as outlaws – have together with some strong women fromWILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom) US and a
lot of courageous women from different parts of the world - formed a1

coalition – Global Women for Peace United Against NATO – which has now
spread to some 40 countries in the world.
We met ahead of the NATO Summit in July in Brussels. We had a meetingin the European Parliament, we brought our Declaration, condemning all
NATO activities and aims, to the NATO headquarters and we arranged
webinars covering Europe, US/Canada, Asia Pacific, Africa and Latin
America.
In the NATO headquarters, one of the directors for public diplomacy,
Nicola diSantis told the fairytale of NATO promoting democracy, westernvalues and peace in the world.
We however, are aware of all the cruel wars NATO has been involved in allover the world, we know how money - badly needed for the developing
countries, for social welfare, health care and education- is used for totallyinsane military purposes.
NATOs demand for 2 % of member countries GDP for the military sector is
not the ceiling but the bottom – we have to give more – much more!
All over Europe there has been riots and demonstrations last autumn andwinter because of less money for the people; poor salaries, high energy
prices, higher prices for foodstuff and so on.
How long will ordinary people accept more money for the military sector?
And how is NATO going to cope internally with other controversial issues
like-The NATO enlargement in the Asia Pacific – aiming at encircling andisolating China?

-African states becoming more and more aware of NATOs geopoliticalselfish economic agenda – a new colonialism-Latin American countries not supporting the sanctions on Russia
2-Serious tensions between the European Union – of which 22 out of
27 member states are also members of NATO – and Latin American
and Caribbean States (CELAC) not wanting to be suppliers of raw
materials for other countries to process industrially-How will the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, SouthAfrica) position themselves as representatives of the Global South,providing "an alternative model to the G7?
Many other countries have expressed interest to join the BRICS
group.
According to South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor,
worldwide interest in the BRICS group is "huge."
BRICS nations offer an attractive alternative to the Western worldorder aiming at full spectrum dominance.
Are we eventually facing a completely new world order?

And finally, when NATO promotes itself as a protector of it’s memberstates, we have to be aware of that among the member states we havecertain strong powers that have shown their capability to harm thewellbeing of the industry and people of other allied states.
The sabotage in September 2022 of the Nord Stream gas pipeline between
Russia and Germany - but reaching also other European countries - was a
brutal attack against crucial infrastructure.
Now much more expensive LNG (liquefied natural gas) gas is brought toEurope from the US and partly also from Norway whilst the population insome European countries is strangled by high gas bills, and a considerable
part of for instance German industry is considering moving theirproduction to the US that offers them favourable investment packages.
Lord Hastings NATO’s first Secretary General said earlier on in his politicalcareer:3

“NATO has to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and theGermans down.”
The Present general secretary Jens Stoltenberg has fulfilled this goal, andnow he is – guided by the US - heading at China and Latin America.
Keep China down by militarizing the Asia Pacific area and let NATO get
access to all the valuable natural resource of Latin America.
We have to do our utmost to stop this – we have to strengthen
cooperation worldwide – we have to support and inspire each other in all
possible ways – we have to be courageous and tireless – we have to do
this in the name of our children, grandchildren and all the children in theworld.
We owe this to those of our ancestors who have done their utmost for thesurvival of this wonderful blue planet.

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