Campaigners from a range of peace and anti-war organisations in Wales - including Pembrokeshire’s ‘PARC Against DARC’ campaign group will host a day of presentations in the Pierhead building at the Senedd on Wednesday, March 5 - to which they have invited all Members of the Senedd to attend.

Headed up by Heddwch ar Waith (Peace Action Wales) the peace summit will be themed ‘Highlighting Militarism in Wales’

Sponsored by Plaid Cymru’s Heledd Fychan MS, the events are being held on the UN’s International Day for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Awareness.

The main thrust of the day will be a lunchtime presentation at which PARC Against DARC’s lead campaigners will seek to inform MS’s of their concerns and objections to the proposed DARC Radar at Cawdor barracks in Pembrokeshire.

Heledd Fychan MS will introduce the presentation where MSs will have an opportunity to ask the campaigners questions about DARC.

This comes following a vote at Plaid Cymru’s national conference last October where the Party unanimously backed a motion to oppose DARC and support the campaign to halt its development.

Heledd Fychan MS said:"Plaid Cymru has a long history of opposing militarism and campaigning for peace, which is why I’m proud to sponsor such an important and timely event at our national parliament.

“We are also supporting the campaign by Pembrokeshire residents to the DARC proposal, and I strongly encourage all Senedd Members to support and attend this important event to understand the strength of opposition and the reasons why this should be of concern to everyone in Wales.”

Peace groups involved in hosting the day include CND Cymru, The Peace Pledge Union & Stop The War who have all urged their supporters to email their MS’s to encourage them to attend the events, especially encouraging MSs to attend the lunchtime presentation at 12.30pm which will be hosted by PARC Against DARC and aimed at briefing MS’s on their key concerns around the proposed DARC Radar as well as encouraging MSs to support Cefin Campbell MS’s Statement of Opinion which was tabled on January 29 in opposition to the proposed Radar.

A spokesperson for PARC Against DARC said: “From our experience in Pembrokeshire it’s very rare that you see what seems at first like a local issue with the kind of public feeling behind it to have not only a statement of opinion tabled in the Senedd with this kind of support, but teams of locals voluntarily out delivering 18,000 flyers against DARC radar by hand.

“But when you think what it means that these radars would play a massive part in Trump and Elon Musk’s attempt to dominate space against the wishes of most countries, you see why so many people are demanding Labour not to take Donald Trump’s side against the very Pembrokeshire people the party’s supposed to represent.”