The March for peace from Perugia to Assisi in the autumn of 2003 will be dedicated to Europe as a “means of promoting peace in the world”. The fifth Assembly of the UNO of Peoples will be held in Perugia on the same theme in the previous days. Just a few days before the introduction of the euro, the Table of Peace, which ended its 11th national seminar at Assisi in recent days, pointed to the construction of the political Europe as the next common objective of the Perugia-Assisi march. “After the single currency said Flavio Lotti, coordinator of the Table of Peace the citizens of Europe have a need to have a common foreign policy at the service of peace and the global common good. The desire for Europe is growing throughout the world: a Europe capable of tackling the challenges posed by globalization, of rejecting war and constructing a system of common security; of eliminating the roots of economic injustice and poverty; of promoting international democracy and the reform and democratization of the United Nations”. The over two hundred associations and local authorities that participated in the seminar discussed and approved a programme of action to be developed up till 2004, the year in which the European elections will be held. The priorities of the Table of Peace include: the urgent intervention of the international community in Israel and Palestine to stop the violence and ensure respect for human rights; the support for civil society in Afghanistan so that it does not remain in bondage to the war lords; and the formation of a coalition against the threatened extension of the war to Iraq, Somalia or other countries.
