The WPC (World Peace Council) denounces strongly the plans of the USA, France, UK, Turkey, NATO
and their allies of Israel, Qatar and Saudi Arabia to attack Syria on the
basis of the alleged use of weapons of mass destruction by the Syrian
government.

The global peace movement and the WPC have experienced these dirty tactics
several times before. The imperialists used the same false pretexts in
Yugoslavia in 1999, later in Afghanistan and Iraq, then in Libya in 2011.
The aims were always related to the goals to control spheres of influence
and resources, to violently change regimes and install willing and
“friendly” ones.

The WPC has many times expressed its principled positions on the right of
every people to determine freely and democratically its future and path of
development and this is more than valid also for the case of Syria that is
the target of local and foreign reactionary, fundamentalist forces, hand in
hand with mercenary groups from the entire region, sponsored, trained and
supported by NATO and its local allies in the Gulf and the Middle East.

The Imperialists were planning the escalation for a long time in Syria,
using Turkey as a springboard for the preparation and infiltration of armed
gangs while installing NATO Patriot Missiles near the Turkish-Syrian
borders.

The European Union played its part through political and economical
sanctions against Syria in full coordination with the USA and Israel, who
are cynically discussing the options to openly attack Syria and Iran in the
future.

The current pretext that Syria used chemical weapons is as false as similar
allegations in Iraq and Yugoslavia. The peace loving forces are used to the
mechanism of provocations, fabrications and lies. Aims of the imperialists
and their global media are the subjugation of the peoples in the region and
the implementation of their plans for the “New Middle East”, the
exploitation of the richest region in mineral resources. The growing
aggressiveness of the imperialists in the region goes hand in hand with the
attack against the peoples’ rights, their sovereign rights for
noninterference in their domestic affairs. All governments of NATO and EU
share responsibility at this moment in face of the planned crime against the
Syrian people.

The WPC condemns the plans to openly attack Syria and expresses its full
hearted solidarity with the people of Syria.

We call upon all members and friends of the WPC to be vigilant and organize
protests in all countries under the slogans: Hands off Syria- No to the
imperialist plans in the Middle East- Solidarity with the peoples of the
region

The Secretariat WPC– August 28, 2013