{"id":11662,"date":"2026-07-18T07:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/?post_type=statement&#038;p=11662"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:05:14","slug":"the-colomo-declaration-hands-off-asia","status":"publish","type":"statement","link":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/pt-br\/statement\/the-colomo-declaration-hands-off-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colombo Declaration: Hands off Asia!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><em>July 18, 2026 | Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gathered in Colombo for \u2018Hands Off Asia: A People\u2019s Call for Sovereignty and Solidarity\u2019, a conference organized by the International Peoples\u2019 Assembly (Asia) and supported by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, we \u2013 representing movements, political parties, trade unions, and people\u2019s organizations from 15 countries across Asia \u2013 commit ourselves to a single call that echoes across our continent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hands Off Asia<\/strong>, which means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Militarily.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hands off our seas. Hands off our lands. Hands off our skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No US or allied military bases on our sovereign territory. No AUKUS. No Quad. No war on Iran. No genocide in Palestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An end to the encirclement of Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Economically<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hands off our economies. Hands off our resources. Hands off our livelihoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No sovereign debt bondage. No IMF conditionalities. No tariff coercion. No technology blockades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The right of Asian peoples to build economies of our own choosing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Politically<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hands off our politics. Hands off our elections. Hands off our movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No regime change or far-right proxies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The right of Asia\u2019s peoples to determine our own political future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Ideologically and culturally<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hands off our histories. Hands off our media. Hands off our imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No colonisation of the ways we know ourselves and each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The right of Asia\u2019s peoples to tell our own story and build our own peoples\u2019 culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The enemy is one and indivisible. So must our answer be.<\/strong> We commit to peoples\u2019 solidarity across the continent \u2013 toward the sovereignty, peace, and socialist horizon our peoples have always fought for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The future of Asia will be decided by its peoples.<\/strong><strong> Hands off Asia!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11663,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[13],"statement-type":[256],"class_list":["post-11662","statement","type-statement","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-anti-imperialism","statement-type-region-statement"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/statement\/11662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/statement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/statement"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11662"},{"taxonomy":"statement-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/statement-type?post=11662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}