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We must halt the escalation towards World War III
The Star publishes here a speech by SEVIM DAGDELEN, member of the German Bundestag, at the Conference for World Equilibrium in Havana, Cuba, earlier this week
Emergency workers clear the rubble after a Russian rocket his a multi-storey building leaving many people under debris in the south-eastern city of Dnipro

THIS conference turns the spotlight on the key question of our time, namely how can humanity, in all its diversity, achieve balanced coexistence? 

In a context of war, militarisation and increasingly bitter bloc confrontation with the potential to escalate into a third world war, this question is of existential importance.

I speak to you today as a member of Parliament from the left-wing opposition in a country that is a warring party in the Ukraine conflict. 

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