Barbados, October 7. At the culmination of the second day's discussions, delegates from the 8 countries attending the First Caribbean Conference on Peace adopted the Bridgetown Declaration and a concise plan of immediate action to address the imminent challenges and dangers to world peace and stability in the region in the short and medium term. In a document of 30 paragraphs in its operative part, there are recorded the main scourges that the pacifist movement must face to save the human species and in this sense calls for a collective action and better coordinated between organizations and personalities from different subregions our continent and the world, in response to the call made by the World Peace Council (CMP), which was represented at the grand event by the president of the Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of the People (MovPaz), Silvio Platero, regional coordinator of the CMP. The Declaration includes demands for the end of the foreign military presence in all its modalities in the Caribbean, independence for colonial territories, respect for the Zone of Peace adopted in Latin America and the Caribbean and no transport of nuclear weapons or wastes, support for the Cuban struggle against the blockade and for the return of the territory illegally occupied by the Guantánamo Naval Base, the denunciation of threats of military aggression against the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela and the use of the nuclear weapon in other regions of the world, the condemnation of terrorism in all its forms, the demand on reparations for the damages of slavery and the cessation of mass deportations of the Caribbean, the illegal trafficking of persons and weapons in the subregion, the rejection of environmental disaster caused irrationally by the hand of man, as well as the call for global solidarity to alleviate the devastation caused by hurricanes in the Caribbean islands.
Among the immediate measures approved is to strengthen the organizations that make up the subregional pacifist movement, to attract other entities and individuals committed to peace, to consolidate the agreement with the CMP and MovPaz as its regional coordinator, to create a digital magazine dedicated especially to the Conference and disseminate it to the world in three languages (English, Spanish and French), systematically use social networks and various electronic platforms already created by various organizations in the area, encourage the publication of thematic works by activists specialized in various identified axes, as well as create conditions to disseminate, support and assist the continental meeting of pacifist organizations to be held in Cuba in the second half of 2018. (Cubaminrex / Embacuba Barbados)