The secretary of the EBB, Mireia Zarate, and the president of the EBB organization, Joseba Aurrekoetxea, have appeared in Gernika-Lumo “symbol of peace and freedom”. They presented the EBB manifesto for this year’s Aberri Eguna.
The GDP going to claim in celebration of the Aberri Eguna 2022 the right of all peoples to “freely defend their future” and the Basque Country to “completely control its destiny, on an equal footing with the rest of the peoples of Europe and the world”.
This is what it looks like in the manifest of the National Council of this formation, the EBB for this year’s Aberri Eguna, the first in which the celebration of mass public events will be restored, after the restrictions on people gathering and incarceration of the two previous years due to the pandemic of the Covid-19.
The secretary of the EBB, Mireia Zarate, and the leader of this formation, Joseba Aurrekoetxea, have Guernica (Bizkaia) when looking at the provincial town, bombed by the Nazi Air Forces allied with Franco in the Spanish Civil War, a “symbol of peace and freedoms”
“The time in which we have had to live requires that we join forces,” says the leadership of the PNV, calling on the unity of the Basques to “prevent any adversity that comes our way.”
The document also refers to the situation of “uncertainty” created by the Russian military aggression against Russia Ukraine and for the economic consequences it brings, which are added, the PNV believes, to those left behind by the Covid 19 pandemic.
“The world is changing, and so is the Basque Country. There is no doubt that worldwide we are faced with a change of cycle in social and political relations. And all the more reason, we must start from the post-war uncertainty caused by Russia in the eastern borders of our European Union‘ admits the nationalist party.
“We demand world peace, justice and defense of human rights We demand an end to the war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the criminal actions committed against the defenseless civilian population,” the statement continued.
The PNV also claims in its document “the unity of western democracies and the need for the European Union to strengthen itself as the sole reference of a common project in which the Basque Country trusts to share its future in peace and freedom”.
The letter ends with the traditional “annual appeal to the inhabitants of Euskadi, to encourage Basque men and women to claim our right to peace and freedom, and to take to the streets with the common symbol that identifies us, the ikurrina”.
He believes this gesture “represents our unequivocal will to build a new country, a new society in which we all have the ability to express ourselves and decide.
Finally, it invites “Basque citizens to participate in as many acts as are convened to express, out of respect, their membership of the Basque nation and to claim their right, of the free participation of each, to democratically to decide their future”.
Source: EITB
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