Days before NATO leaders are to gather for talks addressing Russia's
increasing military involvement in Ukraine, participants at a
counter-NATO summit in Cardiff on Sunday called for the alliance to stay
out of that conflict.
Boris Kagarlitskiy, director of the Institute for Globalisation Studies and Social Movements, called the conflict in Ukraine a civil war from which NATO and other Western powers should stay out.
Joseph Gerson, director of the peace and economic security program at the American Friends Service Committee, said there was also a nuclear dimension to the conflict that should be avoided.
"What we see is exploitation of this crisis with the increased militarisation of Eastern Europe, the Balkans and down around the Black Sea. We're moving into a new era of confrontation and I think it's incumbent on all of us to attempt to press our governments to work for a peaceful negotiated settlement," he said.
Early on Sunday European Union leaders stopped short of imposing immediate new sanctions against Moscow.
Instead, the 28-nation bloc's heads of state and government tasked their executive body to "urgently" prepare tougher economic sanctions that could be adopted within a week.
Kagarlitskiy said that so far sanctions have proven to be a good thing for Russia but cautioned that could change if they end up affecting the banking sector.
The NATO Cardiff summit will be held on 4 and 5 of September.
Boris Kagarlitskiy, director of the Institute for Globalisation Studies and Social Movements, called the conflict in Ukraine a civil war from which NATO and other Western powers should stay out.
Joseph Gerson, director of the peace and economic security program at the American Friends Service Committee, said there was also a nuclear dimension to the conflict that should be avoided.
"What we see is exploitation of this crisis with the increased militarisation of Eastern Europe, the Balkans and down around the Black Sea. We're moving into a new era of confrontation and I think it's incumbent on all of us to attempt to press our governments to work for a peaceful negotiated settlement," he said.
Early on Sunday European Union leaders stopped short of imposing immediate new sanctions against Moscow.
Instead, the 28-nation bloc's heads of state and government tasked their executive body to "urgently" prepare tougher economic sanctions that could be adopted within a week.
Kagarlitskiy said that so far sanctions have proven to be a good thing for Russia but cautioned that could change if they end up affecting the banking sector.
The NATO Cardiff summit will be held on 4 and 5 of September.
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