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DiEM25 members will be holding an on-street event outside Dublin Castle, where the Government is holding a 'forum' on 'international security'.  We invite you  come along and join the conversation. Our presence outside the 'forum' venue on Monday 26 June is to highlight the alternative approaches for international cooperation and ending conflicts contained in our Athen's Declaration and our peace proposals for Ukraine referencing the experience of the Good Friday agreement.  Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn and Ece Temelkuran present the Athens Declaration - DiEM25 Communications 

We believe it is necessary to publicise DiEM25 and Progressive International recommendations in order to help protect our neutrality based on non-alignment and independence from military blocs and forces, such as NATO and a 'European Army'. 

We've drafted a submission to the forum, and requested that the government allows us to present it to one of its sessions.  

The following are some extracts of our submission; 

We believe it would be far more favourable for international peace and security for 
a Citizen’s Assembly rather than a public ‘Consultative Forum’ to be held to 
enable an adequate people’s discussion and democratic decisions to be made on 
this important topic. Previous Citiizen’s Assemblies set up by our Government have shown how effective they can be as a democratic mechanism for resolving questions with complex characteristics in favour of positive and progressive outcomes, and 
providing pathways to solutions. 

To persuade the citizens of Ireland to pass the Nice Treaty in a second referendum 
held on 19 October 2002, the Seville Declaration was drafted and signed on 21 
June 2002 thus legally binding that Irish Defence Forces shall not be deployed 
abroad from Ireland without the conditions of the Triple Lock being satisfied. The 
Triple Lock thus secured Ireland's proud tradition of neutrality that stretched back 
to Wolfe Tone's pamphlet in 1790 titled 'The Spanish War' opposing Britain's threat 
to go to war against Spain and that tradition was repeated by the Irish Neutrality 
League in 1914 in opposition to Irish participation in World War 1. This tradition is 
strongly and proudly preserved in Article 29 of Ireland's Constitution: 
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/cons/en/html#part7 . This clearly states Ireland's 
tradition of neutrality is anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and anti-oligarchic, and is 
strongly defended by the peace loving citizens of Ireland. 

The ‘Consultative Forum’ being advocated by Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and actively 
assisted by the Green Party, can be seen as part and parcel of a propaganda 
exercise with the main aim of foisting a narrative on the people based on the 
fallacy that the so-called ‘rules based international order’ is the means to establish 
and guarantee peace in the world. This ‘rules based order’ is nothing more than 
an attempt by self serving interests represented mainly by the rulers of the G7 and 
some others, to trample in the mud the aim and intentions of the world’s people 
who had defeated facism, and which was articulated in the UN Charter of 1945 ‘to 
save succeeding generations from the scourge of war’. 

Article 102 of the UN Charter allows for ‘every treaty and every international 
agreement entered into by any member of the United Nations’ to ‘be registered 
with the Secretariat.’ Our Government, as a member of the UN, and currently as a 
non-permanent member of the Security Council, should be making good use of 
this within the UN to promote peace and the termination of conflicts. At the UN 
meetings, instead of talking down to and lecturing other nations about what they 
should be doing in their own parliaments, our representatives should be making a 
more positive contribution by holding up our Good Friday Agreement as a good 
example of how antagonisms can be decreased and fears allayed. 

Supporting and signing up to the Athens Declaration 
In 2022 a declaration for international peace and justice through policies 
underpinned by non-alignment with military blocs was presented by Jeremy 
Corbyn, Ece Temelkuran and Yanis Varoufakis. 
We call on all elected politicians and political parties in Ireland to support and 
endorse this