Aktivister för fred har lanserat en engelskspråkig blogg och initierat ett internationellt upprop för fred i Ukraina och fred i Europa.
Det är dags att säga ja till fred i Ukraina och Europa!
I Europarlamentet har ledamöter med särskilt ansvar för Ukrainafrågan nyligen ifrågasatt Minsköverenskommelsen. Samtidigt ges, i den debatt om den pågående eskaleringen, en felaktig bild av den aktuella situationen i Östra Ukraina. Den nuvarande eskaleringen har utlösts av en krypande offensiv från den ukrainska sidan som tillsammans med ultranationalistiska gruppers icke-sanktionerade ekonomisk blockad är tvärt emot Minsköverenskommelsen. President Porosjenko kallar blockaden illegal, men vill eller kan inte göra något för att se till att lag och ordning återupprättas.
Aktivister för fred startar därför en namninsamling för att alla parter; både Västmakter, Ukraina, Ryssland och utbrytarrepublikerna, ska följa Minsköverenskommelsen. Det ska inte vara som nu då väst enbart lägger all skuld på en av Minsköverenskommelsens parter och bortser från andra. Vi hävdar också att fakta om nuläget ska vara korrekta när politiker argumenterar för hur konflikten ska lösas och inte bygga på förutfattade meningar som ger en falsk bild av aktuella händelser.
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Här nedan återpubliceras uppropet som är skrivet på engelska.
We call upon all constituencies in the European parliament to criticize the use of disinformation during the ongoing escalation and economic blockade in Eastern Ukraine and lack of support for the Minsk II agreement by its members in the European Parliament’s Ukraine delegation.
We demand that all actors including Ukraine equally follow the Minsk II agreement.
We call upon people in all of Europe to support diplomatic efforts to solve the Ukrainian conflict.
The time has come to say yes to peace in Ukraine and Europe!
Sign our international petition: Say yes to peace in Ukraine! – Stop European Parliament from using disinformation and attacking Minsk II agreement.
A vast majority of MEPs in the European parliament elected to be responsible for relations to the Ukrainian parliament have used their position to spread disinformation and attack the Minsk II agreement. It is of utmost importance for building peace that different actors do not deny facts on the ground trying to falsely blame the opponent for acts committed by the side in the conflict that EU supports. It is also of great importance that diplomatic efforts to end the conflict and human suffering are honoured. The Minsk II agreement is endorsed by the UN Security Council, i.e. at highest possible international level. Attacks against the Minsk II agreement by the vast majority of MEPs given the responsibility for addressing the Ukrainian conflict is unacceptable.
We demand that the constituencies in the European parliament immediately address the concern this creates for EU as a democratic community basing its decision on facts and not on disinformation.
Europe needs peace now. The greatest humanitarian catastrophe in Europe which is threatening the health and life of millions of people in Eastern Ukraine must be solved. The way the West says that Russia is the only actor who must follow the Minsk II agreement is creating passivity and prolonged human suffering. On the ground, the Ukrainian forces and the volunteer battalions have advanced in what is labelled as a ”creeping offensive”. This means that the Ukrainian forces are advancing into the grey zone and this is not in line with the Minsk II agreement which Ukraine has signed.
On the ground, Ukrainian ultra nationalist have since January also illegally blocked the railway transport between Ukraine and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) in order to totally break the economies of Donbass and Ukraine apart. This economic blockade is in violation of the Minsk II agreement and a threat to the economy of the Ukraine and DPR and LPR, who are tied together by mutual need for, for instance, selling coal and buying fuel for power stations. President Poroshenko strongly oppose the illegal blockade, but cannot force the ultranationalist to follow the law.
During a session in the European Parliament on the 14th of February 2017, the situation in Eastern Ukraine was presented in an erroneous way by Anna Maria Corozza Bildt, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Rebecca Harms, Dariusz Rosati, Sandra Kalniete, and several others in the European Parliament’s Ukraine delegation. They explicitly tried to undermine the Minsk II agreement by using false statements about the ongoing escalation of the conflict in order to avoid criticism against the aggressor that currently is Ukraine. A country responsible for a creeping offensive unable or not willing any longer to maintain law and order and thus letting ultra nationalists enforce an economic blockade against the Minsk II agreement.
Read more about the background and the campaign in To all peace loving people in Europe and the world – Time to join hands for peace in Ukraine.
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