Alwaght-Peace activists have take to the streets of the Polish capital to condemn the hosting of a NATO military alliance summit in the city.
Hundreds of demonstrators on Saturday gathered in the city to march towards the national stadium where the conference was taking place.
International peace movements from 14 countries sent their representatives to the Polish capital to hold an alternative summit. They are protesting against the policies of war and conflict with a motto 'No To War and to NATO Bases'.
Some of the protesters were carrying placards, such as “Stop NATO, Stop the War”, No to NATO, and “Yankees, go home” as they marched from Charles de Gaulle Monument towards the national stadium.
The decision to host the NATO Summit in Warsaw turned Poland's largest metropolitan area into a military camp and a nightmare for the visitors and residents.
Some 6,000 police troops, Special Forces and Interpol experts, integrated under the Internal Security Agency (ABW), have been deployed to the streets of Warsaw.
The 2,000-strong delegation of the heads of the 28 NATO member states and 26 of the Alliance's partnership countries and other agencies were tightly guarded and traveled through central Warsaw in motorcades, looking at the city through tinted windows of their black limousines.
The 2016 NATO summit opened in the Polish capital on Friday, said to be of paramount importance to both the Atlantic and Europe facing uneasy post-Brexit negotiations and what the bloc calls a “resurgent” Russia.
