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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The German Trade Union Federation North (DGB) supports the traditional Easter marches and their demand for disarmament again this year.

"We are miles away from a peaceful world," said DGB-Nord-Vice Ingo Schlueter on Friday.

More and more perfidious weapons, military aggression and the division into rich and poor would throw the world out of balance.

Corona hits poor people particularly brutally, be it in Brazil or South Africa.

"Well more than 100 countries have not yet vaccinated their populations against Corona," said Schlueter.

There the pandemic could spread unchecked with more and more virus variants.

Schlüter called on the World Health Organization, the United Nations and the European Union to fight the disease in solidarity.

"The pharmaceutical companies also have an obligation."

The left in the Hamburg citizenship meanwhile called on the parliament and the red-green Senate to join the demands of the popular initiative against arms transports through the port of Hamburg.

"Actually, there is no reason why the citizens and the Senate do not immediately take over the demands of the initiative and stop the transport of arms across the port," said the peace policy spokesman for the left-wing faction, Mehmet Yildiz.

The central Easter March rally in Hamburg will take place on Easter Monday at 2 p.m. on Jungfernstieg.

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