Welsh Euro MP Jill Evans will address the "Don’t attack Iraq - Freedom for Palestine" demonstration in London this Saturday (28 September) which according to its organisers will be the biggest anti-war rally Britain has ever seen.

The Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales MEP, who is also chair of CND Cymru, will be amongst prominent politicians, trade union leaders and peace campaigners leading the demonstration organised by the Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain with the support of CND.

Ms Evans, who represents the whole of Wales in the European Parliament said:

"We have to make it perfectly clear to George Bush and Tony Blair that military action is not the answer. An attack on Iraq will kill thousands of innocent people, devastate a country already reeling from sanctions and bombing, and further destabilise the Middle East."

"Of course Saddam Hussein is a dangerous man who has persecuted the people of Iraq - we were saying that in the eighties when the British government was selling him arms. We all want to see a democratic government in Iraq, but more bloodshed won’t achieve that."

"We will also be calling on world leaders to redouble their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine. I recently visited the region as part of a European Parliamentary fact-finding mission and saw at first hand the immense suffering there at the hands of aggression and violence. Whatever the problem, killing innocent men, women and children can never be the answer."

"Bush and Blair have been travelling the world in an attempt to mobilise support for military action. It is shameful that they have not applied the same dedication to fighting poverty and injustice."

The rally, which starts from the Embankment at 1.30pm, is expected to attract over 100,000 protestors. Amongst those joining Jill Evans on the speakers stage at Hyde Park from 3pm will be the former UN arms inspector Scott Ritter, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, the veteran left-winger and former Labour MP Tony Benn and union leaders including Billy Hayes (CWU), Bob Crow (RMT), and Mark Serwotka (PCS).

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