Opening Plenary, 2023 World Conference against A and H Bombs – Nagasaki,
August 7, 2023
Ulla Klötzer
Women for Peace – Finland
Active in Global Women for Peace United Against NATOFirst of all my warmest and most grateful thanks for having been invited to thisextremely impressive and important event at one of the most tragic places in humanhistory, where a huge superpower – the US – committed a brutal and never to beforgotten and forgiven crime against humanity.
We, who have gathered for this event – and all human beings around the world thatcare about Mother Earth and her inhabitants - have a moral obligation to prevent thatsuch an unforgivable crime shall ever be committed again.
In order to do this we have to do our utmost to dissolve NATO – the strongest war
machinery in the world encircling Russia and now also China in order to pursue thegeopolitical and economic interests of the Western world - and above all the UnitedStates.
As long as this worldwide enlargement of NATO – a holocaust nuclear alliance - goeson, 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 feel rather
desperate – there are small glimpses of hope.
Since March this year Women for Peace in Finland- in our home country looked uponas outlaws – have together with some strong women from WILPF (Women’sInternational League for Peace and Freedom) US and a lot of courageous womenfrom different parts of the world - formed a 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 meeting in theEuropean 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 de Santis
told the fairytale of NATO promoting democracy, western values and peace in theworld.
We however, are aware of all the cruel wars NATO has been involved in all over theworld, we know how money - badly needed for the developing countries, for socialwelfare, health care and education- is used for totally insane military purposes.
1NATOs demand for 2 % of member countries GDP for the military sector is not theceiling but the bottom – we have to give more – much more!
And when NATO promotes itself as a protector of its member states, we have to beaware of that among the member states we have certain strong powers that haveshown their capability to harm the wellbeing of the industry and people of other alliedstates.
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 to Europe fromthe US and partly also from Norway whilst the population in some Europeancountries is strangled by high gas bills, and a considerable part of for instance
German industry is considering moving their production to the US that offers themfavourable investment packages.
Lord Hastings NATO’s first Secretary General said earlier on in his political career:“NATO has to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”
The Present general secretary Jens Stoltenberg has fulfilled this goal, and now 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 becourageous and tireless – we have to do this in the name of our children,
grandchildren and all the children in the world.
We owe this to those of our ancestors who have done their utmost for the survival ofthis wonderful blue planet.

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