by Peace | Jun 11, 2024 | Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
Saturday 15 June sees the start of the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland. The summit is aimed at heads of state; NGOs are not invited. The aim is to contribute to fair and lasting peace in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Zelensky’s peace proposal and other peace...
by Peace | Sep 5, 2023 | human rights, Ukraine, United Nations
Peace SOS followed online the press conference of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine. The statements below by the Committee are taken from their press release. Erik Møse, Chair of the Commission: “First, we visited Uman in the Cherkasy region and then...
by Peace | Aug 6, 2023 | Free, Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
Peace SOS is shocked by the decision of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to charge peace activist Yurii Sheliazhenko with ‘’justification of Russian aggression’’ and to search his apartment. The charge is based solely on Sheliazhenko’s Peace Agenda for Ukraine...
by Peace | Jul 7, 2023 | Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
On 11 and 12 July, the NATO summit will take place in Vilnius. The summit will discuss, among other things, the war in Ukraine and nuclear deterrence and defence. The North Atlantic Treaty that is the basis of NATO begins with the words, “The parties to this...
by Peace | May 8, 2023 | Russia, Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
At a meeting of the UN Security Council, UN Secretary-General Guterres recently warned that tension between the major powers is historically high as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There is also a risk of conflict due to setbacks or miscalculations,...
by Peace | Apr 21, 2023 | Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
Irrespective of the question of whether the Russian Federation bears sole responsibility for the military escalation in Ukraine or whether NATO or influential NATO states, such as the United States or Great Britain, are also partly to blame for the outbreak of war,...
