ukraine
To the attention of Robák Ferenc,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary
I am contacting you as Hungarian citizen because, as European, I feel the need to help the Ukrainian people in their struggle to get their country back into the track of democracy and freedom. Those are the European values we all share, and the Ukrainian citizens are clearly showing they want them enforced in their country. I, as individual, can help Ukraine only showing my support and encouraging my friends in Ukraine, but I know that my country and the EU can do much more. We can make a change if you act now.
The situation in Ukraine has derailed. At the beginning of this crisis, there was a need to let the Ukrainian people to deal with the situation on their own. Any external action could destabilize the country, and make the protesters look as pawns in a big geopolitical game being played by external powers in the Ukrainian territory. It was a time of moral support and tense expectation.
But the situation has gone out of control in the last days, and now the cost of inaction can be too high to be afforded. At least 25 people have already lost their lives in the last hours, and hundreds more are severely injured. Violence calls violence, so the risk of an escalation makes a strong call for action to the EU, who has repeated in every possible occasion that they stand by the Ukrainian people in their fight for freedom, democracy and rule of law. Now it is time to prove it.
Ukraine, as member of the Council of Europe, signed the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, therefore they are bound to secure to everyone within their jurisdiction the rights and freedoms defined in Section I of this Convention. Failing to do so places them in the same situation of the Belarusian dictator Aleksander Lukashenko.
I call my government to take action now against those who are responsible for the use of violence to stop demonstrations. I agree with the words of
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary
I am contacting you as Hungarian citizen because, as European, I feel the need to help the Ukrainian people in their struggle to get their country back into the track of democracy and freedom. Those are the European values we all share, and the Ukrainian citizens are clearly showing they want them enforced in their country. I, as individual, can help Ukraine only showing my support and encouraging my friends in Ukraine, but I know that my country and the EU can do much more. We can make a change if you act now.
The situation in Ukraine has derailed. At the beginning of this crisis, there was a need to let the Ukrainian people to deal with the situation on their own. Any external action could destabilize the country, and make the protesters look as pawns in a big geopolitical game being played by external powers in the Ukrainian territory. It was a time of moral support and tense expectation.
But the situation has gone out of control in the last days, and now the cost of inaction can be too high to be afforded. At least 25 people have already lost their lives in the last hours, and hundreds more are severely injured. Violence calls violence, so the risk of an escalation makes a strong call for action to the EU, who has repeated in every possible occasion that they stand by the Ukrainian people in their fight for freedom, democracy and rule of law. Now it is time to prove it.
Ukraine, as member of the Council of Europe, signed the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, therefore they are bound to secure to everyone within their jurisdiction the rights and freedoms defined in Section I of this Convention. Failing to do so places them in the same situation of the Belarusian dictator Aleksander Lukashenko.
I call my government to take action now against those who are responsible for the use of violence to stop demonstrations. I agree with the words of