Demonstration for peace in Rome, Landini: "The UN stops the war"

The horrors of the bombings, the incessant flow of refugees, a signal that about

- took to the streets in a procession to Piazza San Giovanni, in Rome.

The demonstration for peace was organized by pacifist associations, NGOs, CGIL and the Italian Peace and Disarmament Network.

Many slogans on the banners "Stop the war, Italy out of the war. No to sending weapons", as well as slogans against NATO.

But above all appeals for an "immediate ceasefire", and the condemnation of "Russia's aggression against Ukraine". 

Among others, Arci, Acli, Libera, Emergency, Legambiente, Movimento nonviolento, Un ponte per, Archivio Disarmo, Amnesty, Anpi, Greenpeace and Save the children joined the parade.

On the stage, the secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, who said: "We must stop the war and ask for the intervention of the UN. The way is not the sending of weapons, but the use of maximum diplomacy. We cannot accept war as instrument of relationship between states. Every effort is needed to stop it - said Landini - war is not fought with war, it is time for the UN to do its part ".

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Contrary to the position of the CGIL - even if present at the demonstration - also the secretary of the

, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, who declared: "

: the partisans in Italy would not have defeated fascism - continues Bombardieri - if they had received flowers during the Resistance ".

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Many testimonies in the square, on the big stage Batool Karim - co-spokesperson of the Iraq Social Forum - Silvia Maraone (Ipsia - Acli, active in the Balkans), the Syrian refugee Yasmine Azeem, as well as a message from the

Split unions

A position not shared by the CISL, which did not join the procession: "One cannot be equidistant or neutral, between those who defend their land and those who instead massacre men, women and children - thus the general secretary of the CISL, Luigi Sbarra - and strikes even nuclear power plants and puts the whole of Europe at risk ", Sbarra calls for" clear-cut choices ", because"

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