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Obama was also asked about his stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict, where he has yet to make any change from the US support of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.

“Let us honor our past by reaching for a better future”, proclaimed Unites States President Barack Obama, vowing to a new era without nuclear weapons.

Peace sign sit-in

Obama’s visit was the occasion to continue Czechs protests against US military base (see Video)

“Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not and will never be at war with Islam.”

While President Obama spoke in Prague, over 1,000 protesters gathered nearby to condemn US plans to build a missile shield system in the Czech Republic and Poland.

Rejected USA request to send more combat troops to Afghanistan

An unknown artist’s comment on the G20 meeting in London,
April 2009

The destructive force of nuclear weapons in the world today is hundreds of millions of times more powerful than that of the atom bomb dropped in Hiroshima in 1945. President Barack Obama’s proposal to reduce atomic warhead arsenals by 80 percent has given rise to the hope of eradicating the threat of nuclear proliferation

‘Although the (nuclear) threat has been greatly diminished since the end of the Cold War, it continues to be the greatest threat against humanity’, declared Obama.