<html><head><title></title><style>p {margin:0; padding: 0;} img {margin: 4px}</style></head><body><p><b>In een open brief aan o.a. de presidenten van Rusland, de VS en Oekraïne doen een groot aantal vredesorganisaties uit heel de wereld een oproep tot vrede. Ze vragen om een de-escalatie van de situatie uit respect voor het leven en het tekenen van het VN-verdrag dat kernwapens verbiedt.</b></p><br /><p>De brief is een initiatief van de Nederlandse vredesorganisatie Peace SOS (<a href="mailto:info@peacesos.nl">info@peacesos.nl</a>). De tekst luidt:</p>
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<p>Your Excellencies,</p>
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<p>We are very anxious about the situation regarding Ukraine...</p>
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<p>We kindly ask you to:<br />• Respect life<br />• De-escalate the situation<br />• Sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons</p>
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<p>We hope that world leaders unite. Unite for peace, unite to end hunger, unite to take climate action, unite for nature, unite to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic etc.</p>
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<p>If we can contribute to peace via peaceful means in Ukraine, please let us know. We hope to see soon: A World in Which All Children Can Play.</p>
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<p>Peace and all the best,</p>
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<p><strong>De ondertekenaars zijn:</strong></p>
<p>Alice Slater, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, USA</p>
<p>Ann Wright, retired US Army Colonel and US diplomat, Veterans For Peace<br />Anna Zanen, Women for Sustainable Peace (umbrella organization), Netherlands<br />Brian Jones, Vice Chair CND Cymru, United Kingdom<br />Chris Geerse, Peace movement Pais, Netherlands<br />Chale Guadamuz, director of Hague Peace Projects, Netherlands<br />Colin Archer, Secretary-General (retired), International Peace Bureau<br />David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War<br />Désirée Klain, artistic director of "Imbavagliati - International Festival of Civil Journalism", Italy<br />Ellen E Barfield, Co-founder, Phil Berrigan Memorial Chapter Veterans For Peace, Baltimore, USA<br />Frank Hornschu, Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, Kiel, Germany<br />Gabi Woywode, Freiburg, Germany<br />Gar Smith, co-founder and director Environmentalists Against War, USA<br />Henk Baars, Kerk en Vrede, Netherlands (Church and Peace)<br />Ingeborg Breines, consultant and former co-president International Peace Bureau<br
/>former director UNESCO, Norway<br />Jim Wohlgemuth, Veterans for Peace, USA<br />John Hallam, Australian Coordinator, People for Nuclear Disarmament, Human Survival Project, Australia<br />Joke Oranje, peace activist for women, Netherlands<br />Jorge Leandro Rosa, Co-founder of ALOC - WRI-Portugal<br />Juha Rekola, former International ombudsman at the Union of Journalists of Finland<br />Kate Kheel, the advisory board of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space<br />Kirsti Era, Peace Group of Joensuu, Finland<br />Koldobi Velasco, Antimilitarist Alternative MOC of Spain<br />Kristine Karch, co-chair international network "No to war - no to NATO"<br />Leuvense Vredesbeweging, Belgium<br />Ludo De Brabander, woordvoerder Vrede vzw, Belgium<br />May-May Meijer, founder Peace SOS, Netherlands<br />Marcy Winograd, Coordinator, CODEPINK Congress<br />Marika Lohi, Amandamaji ry, Finland<br />Marko Ulvila, peace activist, Finland<br />Matthias Reichl, press speaker,
Center for Encounter and active Non-Violence, Austria<br />Michele Di Paolantonio, MD. President of Italian Medical Association for the Prevention of Nuclear War<br />Nick Deane, Convenor, Marrickville Peace Group, Australia<br />Oksana Chelysheva, journalist, laureate of 2014 Oxfam/PEN International award for Freedom of Expression and 2015 Eleonora Fonseca award from the city of the Naples, Finland<br />Panos Balomenos, Visual artist, Helsinki, Finland<br />Peace Action-Wisconsin, United States<br />Peter Griffin. Pax Christi NSW, Australia<br />Peter Spreij, clerk of Quakers in the Netherlands (Religious Society of Friends)<br />Pim van den Bosch, Vredesmissies zonder Wapens, Netherlands<br />Rafal Pankowski, Co-founder of the 'NEVER AGAIN' Association, Poland<br />Rita Salaris-Lichtenberg, Chair, Women's Federation for World Peace, Netherlands<br />Ruslan Kotsaba, President, Ukrainian Pacifist Movement<br />Susanne Gerstenberg, Women for Peace, Sweden<br />Sviatoslav Zabelin, So
cio-ecological union international, Russia<br />Ihor Skrypnik, Vice-President, Ukrainian Pacifist Movement<br />Yurii Sheliazhenko, Ph.D., Executive secretary, Ukrainian Pacifist Movement<br />Stephanie Mbanzendore, Burundian Women for Peace and Development, Netherlands, Burundi<br />Teemu Matinpuro, director of the Finnish Peace comittee, Finland<br />Tetiana Kotseba, president, Women's Federation for World Peace, Ukraine<br />Anna Kalmatskaya, vice-president, Women's Federation for World Peace, Ukraine<br />Sascha Gabizon, Executive Director, Women Engage for a Common Future -WECF International<br />Thomas Wallgren, Professor of philosophy, Helsinki, Finland<br />Tiny Hannink, Women for Peace Enschede, Netherlands<br />Trident Ploughshares<br />XR Peace<br />Yan Shenkman, journalist, The Novaya Gazeta, Russia<br />Vladimir Gusatinsky, the editor-in-chief of the Finnish Gazeta, Finland<br />War Resisters' International (WRI)<br />Weldon D. Nisly, Seatle, USA<br />Wim Koetsier, Secr
etary General, Universal Peace Federation, Netherlands<br />Women Against Nuclear Power - Finland, contact person Ulla Klötzer<br />Women for Peace - Finland, contact person Lea Launokari</p>
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<p>Note: the collection of signatures was halted before the planned date, due to overwhelming support for peace in Ukraine</p>
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<p><strong>De brief is gericht aan:</strong></p>
<p>President of the United States, Mr. J. Biden</p>
<p>President of the Russian Federation, Mr. V. Putin<br />President of Ukraine, Mr. V. Zelensky<br />President of the European Commission, Ms. U. von der Leyen<br />USA Secretary of State, Mr. A. Blinken<br />Russian Foreign Minister, Mr S. Lavrov<br />Foreign Minister Ukraine, Mr. D. Kuleba<br />Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Mr. J. Stoltenberg<br />Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. A. Guterres<br />High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs, Mr. J. Borrell Fontelles<br />Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Mr. M. Rutte<br />Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. W. Hoekstra</p><br />Bron: <a href='http://www.peacesos.nl' target='_blank'>Peace SOS</a><br /><br />Dit bericht wordt verspreid via het VredesNieuws-systeem.</body></html>