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Urgent: Stop the Danger of Nuclear War!
LETTER TO CURRENT AND FORMER LEGISLATORS OF THE WORLD
17 November 2022
Mexico City, November 16, 2022
Dear colleagues from around the world: A group of current and former legislators from Mexico and other countries of Latin America and the Caribbean held two international seminars in the month of October on the subject, “Stop the Danger of Nuclear War.” At these meetings, political and social leaders with different ideological outlooks agreed that the current crisis around Ukraine, “can lead to a confrontation with nuclear weapons between Russia and the United States and NATO,” and that it is urgent to reestablish the universal concept that a, “nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” as was stated most recently by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council in January of this year. We call on you, current and former legislators of the world, to join this effort that we have launched, in order to urge all world citizens to also unite to create a new international security and development architecture, which respects the security interests of all nations and which guarantees the right to welfare and economic development of all people on the planet. As Congressman Robles Montoya stated in the seminar we held on October 27, “I would like to submit for your consideration the formation of a group of legislators who represent everyone on all continents, if possible of all nationalities, to go dialogue directly with the governments of every country interested in world peace.” We will hold a third international seminar on November 22, whose purpose is to continue the process of deliberation and search for peaceful solutions, including a thorough examination of the alternative economic policies to replace speculation, which has generated so much poverty and suffering, with a system of production and progress to meet the needs of a growing world population. As we state in our Declaration, “The common good of the One Humanity is the obligatory premise for the good of each and every nation.” With fraternal greetings, Benjamín Robles Montoya María de los Ángeles Huerta del Río PDF with Signatures (English) Download INITIATING SIGNERS: Donald Ramotar (Guyana); former President (2011-2015), former member of parliament (1992-2011, PPP) Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany); founder, Schiller Institute Jorge Robledo (Colombia); former Senator (2002-2022, Partido Dignidad) María de los Ángeles Huerta (Mexico); former Congresswoman (2018-2021, Morena) Dr. Kirk Meighoo (Trinidad & Tobago); former independent Senator (2004, United National Congress) Dr. Rodolfo Ondarza (Mexico); former Representative, Mexico City Legislative Assembly (2015-2018, PT) Diane Sare (U.S.); candidate for the U.S. Senate from New York (2022, independent/LaRouche) ADDITIONAL SIGNERS: Bolivia Gen. Edwin de la Fuente Jeria; former Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Bolivia (2012-2013) Brazil Paula Cannabrava Filho; journalist, Editor of Diálogos do Sul Colombia Jennifer Pedraza Sandoval; Congresswoman Luís Eduardo Peláez; state representative, Antioquia Leónidas Gómez Gómez; state representative, Santander Jorge Gómez Gallego; former Congressman Diógenes Orjuela García; former Secretary General, CUT trade union confederation Manuel Sarmiento Arguello; city councilman, Bogotá Czech Republic Vincenzo Romanello (Czech Republic/Italy); Ph.D., Senior Nuclear Researcher and Project Manager, National Radiation Protection Institute (SURO) Dominican Republic Ramón Emilio Concepción; former presidential precandidate (2020) Italy Sergio Tancredi; former member of the Sicilian Parliament (2017-2022) Antonio Ingroia; former anti-mafia judge in Sicily; candidate for Prime Minister (2013) Alessia Ruggeri; trade unionist, Comitato per la Repubblica Mexico Benjamín Robles Montoya; Congressman (2018- ); former Senator (2012-2018) Elpidio Tovar de la Cruz; former Congressman (2003-2006) Claudia Yáñez Centeno; former Congresswoman (2014-2017) Alberto Vizcarra Osuna; former Sonora state representative (1988-1991) Dr. Sergio Pablo Mariscal Alvarado; former Mayor, Ciudad Obregón (2018-2021); engineering professor, Sonora Technological Institute Emeterio Ochoa Bazúa; former Sonora state representative (2015-2021) Antonio Valdez Villanueva; former Sonora state representative (2009-2012); Under- secretary General of the Mexican Labor Confederation (CTM) in Sonora. Netherlands Dr. A. J. (Guus) Berkhout; Professor-Emeritus Geophysics, Technical Univ. of Delft; President of CLINTEL Peru Juan Pari; former congressman (2011- 2016) Alberto Quintanilla Chacón; former congresmman (2016-2019) Roberto Vela Pinedo; President, Association of Economists of Peru United States Richard Black; former Virginia state Senator (2012-2020), former member Virginia House of Delegates (1998-2006) Graham Fuller; former U.S. diplomat, CIA official, and Islamic scholar Dr. George Koo; International business advisor, retired Dr. Mohammad A. Toor; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Pakistani American Congress Bradley Blankenship; Journalist Bob Van Hee; Commissioner, Redwood County, Minnesota Venezuela Román Rojas Cabot; former Venezuelan ambassador to the European Community, Brussels Emil Guevara Muñoz; former member of the Latin American Parliament (2006-2011) Yemen Dr. Fouad al Ghaffari; Advisor to the Prime Minister for BRICS Countries Affairs; President of Yemeni ALBRICS Youth Parliament |