| CCSI Home | Announcements | Eurasia | Opinion/Analysis | Bookstore | Site Map | Search |
 |
Center for
Civil Society International Ideas and information for civic action worldwide |
|
||||
Subject: Join Greek-Bulgarian NGO Appeal to Nobel Price Winner Simon Peres for Peaceful Resolution of
Yugoslav Conflict
Sofia, April 21, 1999
Dear Mr. Peres,
We, a group of human rights NGOs call on you, the internationally
respected statesman, thinker and humanist, with the onerous request
that you harness your talents, knowledge and experience for finding an
exit from the vicious war against the Yugoslav people and the criminal
ethnic cleansing of the Albanians from Kosovo. Your unique experience
in finding unorthodox ways of settling most intractable problems
attest you as the honest-broker that can bring together reasonable
Serbs and Albanians, such as there really exist in that ill-fated
country.
We believe that if one could make well-meaning Serbs and Albanians sit
down together around a white sheet of paper and knock their heads,
they will be able to produce a resolution of the seemingly intractable
problems that have dragged them into this awful catastrophe. We are
sure that if there is anyone who could knock their heads together it
is precisely you.
We also believe that if anyone could persuade the leaders of the Great
Western Powers to stop their hopeless exercise of suppressing violence
by indiscriminate violence which hurts mainly the innocent civilian
population, it is precisely you. Your moves to bring together Serbs
and Kosovar Albanians will provide the Great Powers with the
desperately needed by them honourable way of extracting themselves
from the sticky bog in which they blindly rushed, and will thus save
NATO which, when the body-bags start returning home, will most
probably disintegrate with dire consequences to world peace.
We know that there are many other suggestions, such as the call of
Lech Walesa for a joint action by all the Nobel Peace Prize winners,
for stopping the vicious war in Yugoslavia. We support all such moves.
But we also believe that our suggestion can prove most contributing to
peace, human rights and democracy in Yugoslavia, in the Balkans, and
in the world at large.
We are ready to support you with all our means and connections which
we have with distinguished free-minded personalities and human rights
organisations and movements among both the Serbian and the Albanian
people. If only you would agree to join with us in a drive for peace,
human rights and democracy in Yugoslavia and in the Balkans, this will
most surely prove to be a highly productive effort, beneficial to all
sides involved in this vicious conflict.
Expecting your positive reply, we remain
Most truly yours:
Krassimir Kanev, Chairman of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee
Antonina Zheliazkova, Director of the International Centre for
Inter-Ethnic Relations and Intercultural Studies (Sofia)
Plamen Bogoev, Director of Bulgarian Human Rights Centre
Dimitar Gheorghiev, Chairman of Human Rights Project (Sofia)
Dimitrina Petrova, Executive Director of the European Roma Rights
Centre (Budapest)
Valery Russanov, Access Foundation (Sofia)
Panayote Dimitras, Spokesperson for Greek Helsinki Monitor
Nafsika Papanikolatos, Spokesperson for Minority Rights Group - Greece
Greek Helsinki Monitor
P.O. Box 51393
GR-14510 Kifisia
Greece
Tel. +30-1-620.01.20
Fax +30-1-807.57.67
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.greekhelsinki.gr
Last updated: April 23, 1999
| CCSI Home | Announcements | Eurasia | Opinion/Analysis | Bookstore | Site Map | Search |
| |
Center for
Civil Society International Ideas and information for civic action worldwide |
|
||||