- Axis for Peace
Axis for Peace is an initiative of
Voltaire Network to set up an "anti-imperialist" intellectual movement capable of opposing neoconservatives. Its political line recalls that of theNon-Aligned Movement .Axis for Peace 2005
The First Axis for Peace Conference was held on the
17 November and 18 of 2005 at the Résidence Palace, a conference centre managed by Belgium’s Prime Minister. The conference gathered some 150 leaders from 37 countries including intellectuals, politicians, diplomats and military officers. Also present at the conference were high level delegations from the Arab World, Eastern and Western Europe, the Americas; however Black Africa, Asia and Oceania were not largely represented at the forum.The event was partially rebroadcast to the Arab World by
Al Jazeera , to Latin America some days later byTelesur and to the Slavic world byRussia Today .The Secretary General of the
Arab League and several personalities did not attend the conference due to the unexpected call for a diplomatic summit in Cairo aimed at dealing with the future of Iraq.Main members
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Ayman Abdelnour (relator of the Bass Congress, Syria)
*John D. Antony (president of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, United States)
* H. H. PrinceIssa El-Ayoubi (journalist Lebanon)
*Andreas von Bülow (former minister, Germany)
*Giulietto Chiesa (European lawmaker, Italia)
*Michel Collon (journalist, Belgium)
*Enrique Román Hernández (special ambassador, Cuba)
*Salim el Hoss (former prime minister, Lebanon)
* GeneralLeonid Ivashov (former Chief of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Russia)
*Thierry Meyssan (writer, France)
*Craig Murray (former ambassador, United Kingdom)
*James Petras (university professor, United States)
*Mateusz Piskorski (lawmaker, Poland)
* GeneralVinod Saighal (former military academy director, India)
*Jhanett Madriz Sotil (Vice-president of the Andean Parliament, Venezuela)
*Webster G. Tarpley [historian, author of 9/11 Synthetic Terror, USA]
*Ahmed Tibi (lawmaker, Israel)
*Subhi Toma (sociologist, Iraq)
* GeneralRené Vargas Pazzos (former Chief of General Staff, Ecuador)
*Antonio Alberto Vulcano (organizer of anti-Bush demonstrations, Argentina)
*Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Schiller Institute, Germany)External links
* [http://www.axisforpeace.net Official Website]
* [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/28E777B1-3F47-4309-B905-C388CD2077E9.htm Conference for the unity of Peace Forces] , Al Jazeera
* [http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=20141 Hoss: Only through democracy can peace be established] , Daily Star
* [http://search.gulfnews.com/articles/05/11/20/193743.html/ Axis for Peace declares war on hawks] , Gulf News
* [http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/vier18/coloquio-e.html International Colloquium for peace] , Granma
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