Dear friends of
peace all over Europe
Once again we ask your
organisation/movement/group to sign the urgent letter below to the
President of
Finland about a new OSCE Summit in
2025.
We also hope that you would pass on
this invitation to sign in your networks.
The letter is available also
in German, French, Swedish, Finnish and hopefully soon also in
Russian.
Pls inform if you need one of these
versions.
Deadline: 24.4.2022.
Pls confirm your participation by
answering to this mail. (pls see way of signing below). We will add you
to the
list of signatures.
Take care - stay strong!
Ulla Klötzer and Lea Launokari - Women for
Peace - Women Against Nuclear Power - Finland
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To the President of Finland, Mr. Sauli
Niinistö
Cc: the Government and
Parliament of Finland
Re: OSCE Summit in 2025
In March 2021 You, Mr.
President made the remarkable initiative for a new OSCE Summit in
2025.
You also made the
generous offer to hold the summit in Helsinki in honor of the historical summit
50 years ago.
You also stated that the
idea had got support from Washington, Moscow and Berlin.
Your initiative was also
supported by over 130 representatives of non-governmental
organizations in the Nordic and Baltic
Sea
region.
In view of the extremely
tense and dangerous situation that we experience today in Ukraine and in the
relations between USA/NATO/Europe and Russia, the urgent need for a new OSCE
Summit is greater than ever.
Finland - as also Sweden
- have traditionally played a strong role as promoters of peace, dialogue and
understanding.
That role must be upheld
and strengthened. The need for respected non-aligned states as
intermediaries is urgent.
Therefore, we sincerely
hope that Finland – as well as Sweden – shall not let all the people that
worldwide are uniting
for peace and
understanding down by joining NATO before the outcome of a new OSCE summit in
the spirit of 1975
is
clear.
We, xx organizations from all over Europe, are now urging
You, Mr. President to do your utmost in order to fulfill your commitment to
arrange a new OSCE Summit in 2025, a summit where a true security agenda for all
of Europe, respecting also the needs and wishes of Russia, will be discussed and
implemented.
People, working for peace
and for the survival of our planet in times of growing worldwide social
injustice, climate change
and climate related
catastrophes, are in extreme need of strong signals from the political elite
that our fears and hopes
are taken
seriously.
Europe April 25,
2022
INTERNATIONAL
ORGANISATIONS
International Peace Bureau (IPB)
contact Reiner Braun: info (at) ipb-office.berlin
IPB has 300 member organisations in 70 countries which together with
individual members, form a global network, bringing together knowledge and
campaigning experience in a common cause. IPB links experts and advocates
working on similar issues in order to build strong civil society
movements.
IPB plays a central role in the Geneva-based NGO Committee for
Disarmament, a committee of CONGO, the Conference
of NGOs in Consultative Status with ECOSOC. There are sister committees in New
York and Vienna. Together they follow various disarmament negotiations, within and outside the
UN.
Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security
(CPDCS)
contact Joseph Gerson: jgerson80 (at) gmail.com
CPDCS serves as a bridge
between peace and nuclear disarmament movements in U.S., Asia, and Europe and
contributes to intersectional organizing. The data base includes 10,200 contacts in the U.S. and
internationally. CPDCS is partner with numerous U.S. and international
organizations, coalitions, and networks.
- We partner
with numerous U.S. and international organizations, coalitions, and
networks.
- S. and
international organizations, coalitions, and networks.
NATIONAL
ORGANISATIONS
· Aktionsgemeinschaft Dienst für den Frieden (AGDF) (a network of 31 institutions working with peace in Germany and
abroad) – GERMANY
· Artister för fred – Artists for Peace
– SWEDEN
· ÄrztInnen für eine gesunde Umwelt - Austrian Doctors for the
Environment - AUSTRIA
· Folkkampanjen mot Kärnkraft-Kärnvapen - Peoples' Movement Against
Nuclear Power And Weapons – SWEDEN contact Jan Strömdahl: jfstromdahl (at) gmail.com
· Frauennetzwerk für Frieden e.V. - Women's Network for Peace
– GERMANY
· Fredens
Hus Göteborg - Peace House Gothenburg – SWEDEN
contact Karin
Utas Carlsson: k.utas.carlsson (at) gmail.com
· Fredsministerium - Peace Ministry
of DENMARK
contact Hasse
Schneidermann: hasse.schneidermann (at) gmail.com
· FredsVagten ved Christiansborg – PeaceWatch at
Christiansborg – DENMARK
contact Irene Sørensen -
0802irene (at) gmail.com
· Internationale Versöhnungsbund - Österreichischer
Zweig - International Fellowship of Reconciliation - Austrian
Branch - AUSTRIA
· Kvinnor för Fred - Women for
Peace – SWEDEN
contact Susanne Gerstenberg:
susanne.gerstenberg (at) telia.com
· Lebenshaus Schwäbische Alb - Gemeinschaft für soziale Gerechtigkeit,
Frieden und Ökologie e.V. - (a community for social justice, peace and
ecology) - GERMANY
· Nej till Nato – No to Nato – SWEDEN
contact Eva
Jonsson: eva.e.jonson (at) gmail.com
· Naiset Atomivoimaa Vastaan - Women Against Nuclear Power
– FINLAND
contact Ulla
Klötzer: ullaklotzer (at) yahoo.com
· Naiset Rauhan Puolesta - Women for Peace – FINLAND
· Nej till Nato – No to Nato – SWEDEN
contact Eva
Jonsson: eva.e.jonson (at) gmail.com
· Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland
– RUSSIA, contact Oleg Bodrov: obdecom (at) gmail.com
· Socio-ecological union International
– RUSSIA
contact:
Sviatoslav Zabelin: svetfrog (at)
gmail.com
· Sveriges Fredsråd - Swedish
Peace Council, SWEDEN
contact Agneta Norberg:
lappland.norberg (at) gmail.com
· TID TIL FRED - aktiv mod krig - TIME FOR PEACE – active
against war – DENMARK
· Västernorrlands
FN distrikt - Västernorrland
UN district - SWEDEN, contact: Sameer
Lafta - sameerlafta
(at) gmail.com
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INDIVIDUAL
SUPPORTERS:
· Thomas Roithner, Friedensforscher und Privatdozent für
Politikwissenschaft, Wien, AUSTRIA
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