Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001272361,00.html WEDNESDAY AUGUST 08 2001 Anarchists plan Nato 'battlefield' in Naples BY RICHARD OWEN IN ROME AND MICHAEL EVANS, DEFENCE EDITOR ITALY may ask Nato to cancel a meeting of alliance Defence Ministers in Naples next month because of fears of another Genoa-style protest. After the violence during the G8 summit three weeks ago, in which a demonstrator was shot dead by a policeman, the Mayor of Naples has expressed concern that her city may be next to see violent demonstrations. Appealing to the Italian Government for the meeting to be cancelled, Rosa Russo Jervolino said that she had "no intention of seeing Naples turned into a military fortress like Genoa and then destroyed by anarchists". Anti-globalisation groups gave warning that the meeting will be reduced to "a Genoa-style battlefield". Francesco Caruso, a spokesman for the movement in Naples, said that demonstrators from across Europe would be out in force and ready for battle. "If they try to stop us demonstrating, they will have to shoot us," he said. The Government will meet tomorrow to decide whether to shelve the meeting. However, no official approach has been made to Nato headquarters in Brussels. A spokesman there said that alliance members had accepted an offer by Italy about a year ago to hold the meeting in Naples. The alliance had not yet heard of any move by the Italian Government to change the venue or cancel the event. "We are quite happy to go to Naples," he said. The Mayor of Naples said that although the city had successfully hosted a G7 summit in 1994, "things have changed a great deal since then". The meeting is an annual informal session with no strict agenda, where Defence Ministers discuss key questions, which on this occasion are certain to include the Balkans and missile defence. Nato sources said that the two-day meeting, which begins on September 26, would be on a far more modest scale than the G8 summit in Genoa. Nato meetings had attracted demonstrators in the past, but not the anti-globalisation protestors who tended to focus on economic summits. However, Signor Caruso said that the meeting was a "provocation" because ministers would discuss the United States's missile defence programme, which was "another example of the military arrogance of the big powers". Naples is the location of Nato's Allied Forces Southern Europe headquarters and of the US Sixth Fleet, already a focus of anti-American sentiment in Italy. The alarm over the Naples meeting comes after similar moves recently to transfer a United Nations world food summit from Rome to Africa in November. The summit on world hunger is due to be attended by leaders of 180 UN member nations under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which is based in Rome. The Italian Foreign Ministry said Italy was sounding out UN member states on whether the summit should be switched to an African capital. FAO officials said the UN would seek compensation if the venue was moved. ------------------------ "Without a Peoples Army the people have nothing" Mao ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Peoples_War ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
