COPENHAGEN, Oct. 19, Reuter: A group of about 30 young demonstrators protesting against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan threw the final session of the unofficial and controversial World Peace Congress into Tumult today.
The demonstrators mounted the conference platform chanting anti-Soviet slogans and showing poster’s calling for an end to the Soviet presence in Afghanistan.
‘The demonstration was also directed against the organizers of the Congress, who have been accused of pro-Soviet sympathy by some western observers. Afghanistan was not debated at the meeting, nor was a representative of the forces fighting the Russians in the country allowed to attend, one of the demonstrators said.
After bloody fist fighting, security guards expelled the rowdy demonstrators allowing the closing session of the Congress to continue.
“The Congress submitted no formal resolutions but Hermod Lannung, the 90yearold Danish politician and chairman of the meeting, closed the conference with an appeal for disarmament and the end of war.
The five day Congress, which was attended by some 2,500 activists from 136 countries, ended in the proclamation of a so called Copenhagen appeal for World peace.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 24, 1986
