*[Enwl-eng] pls sign for new OSCE summit

[ENWL]

Dear friends of peace in the Nordic and all Baltic Sea countries

In 2025, it will be 50 years since the CSCE/OSCE Final Act was signed in 
Helsinki.

For this reason, the President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, has proposed to 
hold a new summit of major powers in the spirit of the CSCE. The President 
believes that a new summit could calm the growing tensions between the major 
powers.

Niinistö believes that in this situation Finland could have the capacity to 
act as a mediator because the country has a direct discussion relationship 
with all major powers.

The Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has expressed support for the 
proposal.

In January 2021, Sweden took over the chairmanship of the OSCE. Foreign 
Minister Ann Linde then stated that Sweden will during the year work to 
strengthen the organization's important role in contributing to security in 
the region.

We have compiled a letter in support of the holding of a new summit. (See 
below or attachment)

We will send it out to the governments and parliaments of Finland, Sweden, 
all other countries in the Baltic Sea region and to the media. The letter 
will also be sent to the leaders of the major powers and the OSCE.

If the summit project progresses, we hope to be able to organize some kind 
of shadow event for non-governmental organizations.

We sincerely hope that your organization will sign the letter of support 
before 25.5.2021 by notifying Ulla Klötzer (ullaklotzer at yahoo.com)

- Name of the organization

- Contact person: name and email

We also hope that you via your networks will forward the invitation to sign 
the letter.



Hoping for your support for the project,
Lea Launokari, Women for Peace – Finland (lea.launokari at nettilinja.fi)

Ulla Klötzer, Women Against Nuclear Power – Finland (ullaklotzer at yahoo.com)

Susanne Gerstenberg, Women for Peace – Sweden 
(susanne.gerstenberg at telia.com)

Jan Strömdahl, The Peoples' Movement Against Nuclear Power And Weapons – 
Sweden (jfstromdahl at gmail.com)



Oleg Bodrov, Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland – 
Russia (bodrov at greenworld.org.ru)






To the governments and parliaments of Finland and Sweden as well as Denmark, 
Estonia, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Russia
A new summit in 2025 in CSCE spirit



We, (the number of organizations?) representatives of non-governmental 
organizations in the Nordic and Baltic Sea region, warmly welcome the 
extremely urgent proposal of the President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, to 
organize a new summit in CSCE spirit (Conference on Security and Cooperation 
in Europe) between the major powers in connection with the 50th anniversary 
of OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe). The Final Act 
was signed in Helsinki in 1975. The President believes that a new summit 
could calm the growing tensions between the major powers.

According to President Niinistö, the international situation is not 
necessarily as bad as it seems. Behind the facade there are also attempts to 
find solutions. Niinistö believes that in this situation Finland could have 
the capacity to act as a mediator because the country has a direct 
discussion relationship with all major powers.

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin expressed support for the proposal on 
Finnish television and stated that she shares the president's concerns about 
the tense situation between the major powers.

 In January 2021, Sweden took over the chairmanship of the OSCE. Foreign 
Minister Ann Linde then stated that Sweden will during the year work to 
strengthen the important role of the OSCE in contributing to security in the 
region. "For Sweden and all other participating states, the commitments that 
underlie the OSCE are the cornerstones of our common security. ... Threats 
to international peace and security and the suffering that conflicts entail 
are unacceptable. That is why we must continue to keep the work for a 
solution to the conflicts in our region at the top of our agenda. "

In this very spirit, we assume that Sweden will give its full support to the 
proposal for a new OSCE summit in 2025.

 In 190 countries, nearly 700 organizations and over 75,000 people have 
signed a pledge to commit to peace and to support non-violent activities to 
end all wars and preparations for war and to create a lasting and just 
peace. War and militarism kill, injure and traumatize adults, children and 
infants, destroy the environment, erode civil liberties and undermine 
countries' economies.

Countless appeals and letters have been published by former high-ranking 
politicians and NATO leaders, non-governmental organizations, groups of 
prominent people in various professions, peace researchers and others 
calling on world leaders to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear 
Weapons (TPNW). Research groups and peace organizations around the world are 
calling for dialogue between the major powers instead of gun rattling and 
twisted threats and present proposals for how such a dialogue could be 
conducted and how trust could be built through open and inclusive 
cooperation. Humanitarian and peace-promoting  organizations advocate 
demilitarization in favor of global sustainable and equal development.

 Finland and Sweden have traditionally acted as initiators of peace and 
disarmament.

Former Finnish President Urho Kekkonen twice, in 1963 and 1978, proposed a 
nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Nordic region. Sweden's former Prime 
Minister Olof Palme in his Piteå speech in 1974 presented the demand for a 
nuclear-weapon-free Europe. It was a life-affirming demand, which led to the 
work for a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Nordic region. In the Nordic 
Council demands have been made for such a zone. Unfortunately, no 
nuclear-weapon-free zone was established in the Nordic region or the Baltic 
Sea region.

 Today, both countries have an increasingly close collaboration with NATO 
and the United States which has led to increased tensions in the Nordic and 
Baltic region.

Nuclear weapons are a key component of NATO's deterrence and defense policy 
and the United States has nuclear weapons deployed in Europe. Both USA and 
Russia are modernizing their nuclear arsenals.

The American corporation Lockheed Martin has been commissioned to 
manufacture a ground-launched intermediate-range hypersonic weapons system 
with a range of 500 -5 500 km. Such missiles, able to reach Moscow, will 
most likely be deployed in Poland or Romania.

Russia also builds hypersonic intermediate-range missiles but they would be 
launched from Russian territory and cannot reach Washington.

Such missiles were prohibited by the Treaty on Intermediate Nuclear Forces 
(INF) signed by Presidents Gorbachev and Reagan in 1987.  The risks thus 
increase considerably that a nuclear war between USA and Russia could take 
place in Europe.

In a nuclear war, however, all are losers. It does not matter whether it 
takes place in Europe or elsewhere.

A new OSCE summit is not only welcome, it is crucial for the future of 
Europe and the planet.

The Baltic Sea region 25.5.2021



Signatures:





From: Ulla Klotzer
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2021 1:54 PM
Subject: pls sign for new OSCE summit

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