The appeal was made by the anti-war platform created in Pamplona/Iruña and involved in it in the early 1990s many citizens opposed to compulsory military service, including the four women called last Tuesday: Cristina Contreras, Argiñe Salanueva, Asun Otano and Conchi Salinas.

In the presentation of the mobilization, Argiñe Salanueva, the sister of the Unai Salanueva, who committed suicide before entering prison in 1997, stated that “those of us who were against entry into NATO and compulsory military service, must go out again against war.”

In 1991 and 2003, the antimilitarists also took to the streets against the war and remembered that they will now also do so in the same way. The demonstration will oppose the extension of military budgets and the sending of arms to Ukraine and will require the support of the European Union to deserters from the armies of Russia and Ukraine.

The Pope is also opposed to increased military spending

There are serious doubts and controversies about whether or not to send arms to Ukraine, and there is still a commitment to sending arms to the major media in the West. But there are also broad positions against the non-submission and against the increase in military budgets.

Among them is the Pope who is showing a vision against war: “I am ashamed of the states that increase military spending to 2%, they are crazy! The real answer is not in more weapons, more sanctions and more political-military alliances (...)”. These words are nothing more than a fragment of the Pope’s comprehensive anti-militarist declaration on the very day that Russia began its invasion on 24 March.