{"id":21765,"date":"2020-11-03T06:53:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T11:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21765"},"modified":"2020-11-03T06:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T11:56:19","slug":"youth-invited-to-sign-letter-to-disband-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21765","title":{"rendered":"Youth invited to sign letter to disband NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; width: 46%;\">\n<p>. .DISARMAMENT &#038; SECURITY. .<\/p>\n<p>An invitation from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no-to-nato.org\/2020\/11\/open-letter\/\">International Network to Delegitimize NATO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.no-to-nato.org\/2020\/11\/open-letter\/\">Youth are invited here <\/a> to sign the following letter addressed to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg,<\/p>\n<p>We want to voice our opposition to the fact that you will host the NATO 2030 Youth Summit on November 9th.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NATO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NATO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NATO.jpg 331w, https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NATO-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As young people concerned about our future and the future of our planet, we are very concerned that the focus of the event is &#8216;keeping NATO strong militarily, making it stronger politically and more global\u2019. We do not believe that strengthening NATO is the best way to secure our future. Instead we would like to see NATO disbanded.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main challenges of the 21st century is to reimagine our concept of security. We are living in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, of unfolding climate change disaster and racial unrest. Addressing these challenges is the priority, by working alongside the international community and cooperation of the people, not strengthening a nuclear-armed military alliance that provokes mistrust and conflict.<\/p>\n<p>NATO is committed to an interventionist military agenda and causes instability across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>(continued in right column)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 46%;\">Questions for this article:<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 46%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 46%;\">\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p><strong><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=4321\">Can NATO be abolished?<\/a> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(continued from left column)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWe urge you to use the NATO 2030 Youth Summit to discuss how we build a more sustainable, more peaceful and fairer world, and to start the discussion about how the world that we will inherit would be better served by bringing an end to your alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n<p>The next generation,<\/p>\n<p>Bela Irina Castro, Research Manager and Junior Researcher at the<br \/>\nCentre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal<\/p>\n<p>Sean Conner, Staff International Peace Bureau, USA<\/p>\n<p>Dr. med. Lisann Marie Drews, Physician and member of IPPNW &#038; Stop Airbase Ramstein Campaign, Germany<\/p>\n<p>Eskil Grav, Staff International Peace Bureau, Norway<\/p>\n<p>Sara Medi Jones, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, UK<\/p>\n<p>Ellie Kinney, Youth and Student CND convenor, UK<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa Lanteigne, National Coordinator of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace<\/p>\n<p>Quique S\u00e1nchez Ochoa, Project manager at Centre Del\u00e0s of Peace Studies and GCOMS, Spain \u2502<br \/>\nLisa Silvestre, Mouvement de la Paix, France<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Wirl, International Network No to War \u2013 No to NATO, Germany<\/p>\n<p>Mikis Wulkow, Peace Activist, Germany<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. .DISARMAMENT &#038; SECURITY. . An invitation from the International Network to Delegitimize NATO Youth are invited here to sign the following letter addressed to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, We want to voice our opposition to the fact that you will host the NATO 2030 Youth Summit on November 9th. \u00a0 As young people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Youth invited to sign letter to disband NATO<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,75,76],"tags":[33,11],"class_list":["post-21765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disarmament","category-europe","category-global","tag-europe","tag-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}