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| Photo courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office: a 23 kiloton tower shot called "Badger", fired on April 18, 1953 |
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The initiative that we propose and present publicly on the occasion of the demonstration on Saturday 20 July 2024, which will be held in Udine (Italy) in Piazza I Maggio from 6:00 p.m., has the aim not only of raising awareness among national and international institutional leaders, but of acting personally (in a totally free but conscious way) so that citizens, parents and even their own children of age of discernment can make a personal contribution to prevent the widening of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the involvement of NATO and the United States of America and other countries in the Asian and Middle Eastern area equipped with nuclear weapons.
A global military de-escalation – also in the tones, statements and foreign policy reports of newspapers, radio and television – is more than appropriate, as is a pro-active participation by public opinion, not only Italian. Eminent jurists and full professors of public law institutions and constitutionalists have already highlighted how the issues of war and peace are too important and crucial in their decisions to exclude public opinion and the Italian population in general. We must listen - in our humble opinion - also to free initiatives conducted alongside the institutions in so-called horizontal subsidiarity, because the contribution of many minds and hearts can bring discernment and solutions where international politics seems already decided at the table and launched like a train running at full steam towards a tragedy of colossal proportions that could affect all the nations and peoples of the Earth. The appeal letter that we propose and that we have written and edited in form and content was conceived precisely in the spirit of the aforementioned intentions: it can be freely downloaded to be printed, signed and sent in a personal capacity to the Ambassadors of Hungary, Serbia and Colombia in the capital city of your European country.
There is a section dedicated to short personal observations and a section where you can attach any drawings, thoughts, songs and poems that children and adolescents in Europe can compose and deliver to their parents, on the theme of war and peace in the context of the war in Ukraine. We hope that in addition to many families, several schools or classes of primary and secondary schools will participate in this initiative. The initiative is completely autonomous and decentralized: no type of support or indication will be provided by the undersigned, who have already indicated in the letter itself the reasons for the civil action with free and spontaneous adhesion.
FAQs
HOW TO SEND THE LETTER
We recommend priority paper mail with tracking; we do not recommend email because the institutional mailboxes of the Embassies must remain free of unwanted and redundant mail, and because a paper postal package does not clog up a service, it is tangible and concrete from a material point of view and allows you to touch with your hand a human and artistic testimony of many children and adolescents from Italy and other European countries, who do not have to pay because of the errors and imprudence of adults.
Every citizen who decides to write to the Ambassadors, will have to look for the physical postal address in the capital city of their European country.
RECIPIENTS OF THE LETTER
The Ambassador of Hungary, Serbia and Colombia in the capital cities of European countries.
GOALS
We hope to stimulate the opening of a credible negotiating table for a truce and pacification between Ukraine and the Russian Federation at war since February 2022, which starts from a core of countries identified by us free citizens in the following States: Republic of Hungary, Republic of Serbia and Republic of Colombia. This group of States - if they compare themselves in their bilateral relations on the subject of this letter-appeal - could together give life to an international collaboration aimed at promoting a truce and a ceasefire. To this end, this triad of countries could grow by involving other States capable of intercepting the contents and methods of mediation, negotiation and agreements, up to possibly bringing the requests for pacification and mediation between the two contenders in arms to the General Assembly of the United Nations. The ultimate goal is to lead to a consequent and subsequent global military détente and de-escalation, avoiding the risk of an extended military conflict not only of a conventional type, but also of a nuclear one. This initiative could be promoted by organizing a negotiating and agreement table in a city like Vienna (Austria is not a member of NATO) which already has a rich historical tradition of diplomatic agreements, or in the city of Belgrade, or alternatively in the capital of Colombia, Bogota. Three of the highest officials of these States – Viktor Orbán, head of government in Hungary, Aleksandar Vučić in his role as President of the Republic of Serbia, and the President of Colombia Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego – have released public statements in recent months marked by great political and moral concern, especially personal, for the current situation in the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, also in the context of international relations and in the increasingly tense and difficult relations between the West (NATO, EU and United States of America) on the one hand and Russia on the other.
Luca SCANTAMBURLO & Flavio MASSERA
July 18, 2024
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Stefania Marchesini for her help in disseminating the press release of the Udine demonstration (Saturday, July 20, 2024, Piazza I Maggio), Barbara Todisco for her valuable contribution in reviewing the text of the letter to the Ambassadors (punctuation, typos, etc.) and Esmeralda De Barros for the translation into French and English of the letter itself intended for the Ambassadors of Rome.
PHOTO CREDITS
Photos by Ilya Perelude, children with antigas mask, Pexels.com 2021
Nuclear explosion in April 1953: Photo by courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office. This image is available from the National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office Photo Library under number XX-34
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