Peace letter to OSCE and Council of Europe
Dresden, 13 02 22
Dear friends,
More than ever, the normalization of relations between Russia and the transatlantic West is the key issue for peace, security and stability throughout Europe. Security in Europe cannot and must not exist against Russia, but only together with it.
This task is even more urgent today. For the upcoming negotiations at the OSCE, Dresden Friends of Peace would therefore like to hand over to the Secretary General of this European organization a statement by non-governmental organizations from the OSCE area in this regard, which is enclosed.
Our request: Would your organization support this statement and do you have connections to organizations and personalities in the three countries mentioned above with whom we could seek contact in this matter?
Thank you and friendly greetings from Dresden
Eberhard König
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Segretariato dell'OSCE
Wallnerstrasse 6
A-1010 Vienna
Austria
Council of Europe,
Avenue de l'Europe
F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex,
France
Federal Foreign Office,
11013 Berlin
Germany
There are information offices of the Council of Europe in Poland and Ukraine, among others
for Poland
Mrs. Hanna Machinska
Director
Al. Niepodleglosci 22
PL - 02653 Warsaw
Poland
for Ukraine
Mr. Olexander Pavlitchenko
Director
24-A, Ivan Franka Str.
UA - 01030 Kyiv
Ukraine
'infokonsulat@russische-botschaft.de'; 'info@russische-botschaft.de'; 'info@deutsch-russisches-forum.de'; 'moskau@hss.de'; 'aussenpolitik@russische-botschaft.de'; 'eu-de-kommission@ec.europa.eu'; 'poststelle@bundesregierung.de'; 'poststelle@auswaertiges-amt.de'; 'kontakt@funkemedien.de'
Peace Letter to the OSCE and the Council of Europe
Segretariato dell’OSCE
Wallnerstrasse 6
A-1010 Vienna
Österreich
Europeans demand the OSCE and the Council of Europe to defuse the Ukraine conflict
Dear Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid,
Currently, on the initiative of the Presidents of the United States and Russia, talks are taking place at various levels. We, the undersigned, are people who feel threatened by the Ukraine crisis. We believe that the OSCE and the Council of Europe can have an impact on this and make a decisive contribution to the process of peaceful de-escalation and conflict resolution. The states united in the OSCE have committed themselves in the fundamental documents to work together for peace, security and respect for human rights. At present, we are witnessing the opposite in the Ukraine crisis: armament, troop deployments, mutual attribution of blame, threats with words and accumulation of weapons - thus loss of peace and security, for which actually the peoples, united in the OSCE, have committed themselves. We the people consider the observance of the fundamental principles as our right and entitlement, to which our governments still profess. We consider the OSCE as a suitable interlocutor for us . Therefore, we convey our demands in this way and ask for your support.
You will probably receive many such letters from European citizens with whom we feel united in our peaceful intent. We will do all we can in our communities to support this process.
We call for an equal and significant reduction of troops and military advisors on both sides of the borders of the internationally unrecognized Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
We call on the Government of Ukraine to immediately begin implementing the Minsk Agreement to allow and guarantee the exercise of human rights for the Russian minority in Ukraine and all its ethnic groups.
We call on the European community, Russia, the U.S. and Canada to jointly count the arms and troops in Europe, to account for the flows of weapons and military equipment, and to initiate a balanced and significant reduction.
We want to live in peace and without military threat. We want disagreements between states and within states between ethnic groups to be resolved peacefully. Please create the peaceful civil instruments for security in Europe for this purpose. We want to develop and move freely on the continent.
We hope that you will join our demands and support them effectively.
Please set up a website documenting the progress.
We wish you success in this endeavor.
Peace Initiative Dresden
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