Prague, May 20 (CTK) – Several dozen people demonstrated against NATO and Czech membership of it staged in Wenceslas Square in downtown Prague today by the Czech Peace Movement with support of the No to Bases initiative in connection with a NATO summit to be held in Brussels at the end of May.
“For nearly 70 years has the North Atlantic Pact been an aggressive military alliance that does not hesitate to apply aggression, war, occupation and various interventions in the interest of the United States and now in the interest of the European Union,” Milan Krajca, from the Czech Peace Movement, said.
“We want to express our disagreement with that one country after another is falling victim to this subversive policy,” he said.
The demonstration was also attended by Communist (KSCM) lawmakers Marta Semelova and Stanislav Grospic and party deputy chairman Josef Skala addressed the protesters.
“Is NATO really a barrier to war, aggressions, to security threats?” he asked.
“Is really present-day Russia going to attack us? Does really anyone thinks such an enormous nonsense?” he added.
Skala said NATO has done nothing against the spread of terrorism.
Several red flags flew over the heads of the participants. The organisers laid on the pavement a poster reading “The world without wars is possible, the world without wars is needed.”
The participants could sign a petition for holding a referendum on withdrawing from NATO and for a peaceful policy.
