Открытое письмо западных политиков - полный текст по-английски и по-русски |
Григорий Белонучкин | |
04:10:2004 г. | |
As citizens of the Euro-Atlantic community of democracies, we wish to express our sympathy and solidarity with the people of the Russian Federation in their struggle against terrorism. The mass murderers who seized School No. 1 in Beslan committed a heinous act of terrorism for which there can be no rationale or excuse. While other mass murderers have killed children and unarmed civilians, the calculated targeting of so many innocent children at school is an unprecedented act of barbarism that violates the values and norms of our community and which all civilized nations must condemn.
At the same time, we are deeply concerned that these tragic events are being used to further undermine democracy in Russia. Russia's democratic institutions have always been weak and fragile. Since becoming President in January 2000, Vladimir Putin has made them even weaker. He has systematically undercut the freedom and independence of the press, destroyed the checks and balances in the Russian federal system, arbitrarily imprisoned both real and imagined political rivals, removed legitimate candidates from electoral ballots, harassed and arrested NGO leaders, and weakened Russia's political parties. In the wake of the horrific crime in Beslan, President Putin has announced plans to further centralize power and to push through measures that will take Russia a step closer to authoritarian regime. We are also worried about the deteriorating conduct of Russia in its foreign relations. President Putin's foreign policy is increasingly marked by a threatening attitude towards Russia's neighbors and Europe's energy security, the return of rhetoric of militarism and empire, and by a refusal to comply with Russia's international treaty obligations. In all aspects of Russian political life, the instruments of state power appear to be being rebuilt and the dominance of the security services to grow. We believe that this conduct cannot be accepted as the foundation of a true partnership between Russia and the democracies of NATO and the European Union.
These moves are only the latest evidence that the present Russian leadership is breaking away from the core democratic values of the Euro-Atlantic community. All too often in the past, the West has remained silent and restrained its criticism in the belief that President Putin's steps in the wrong direction were temporary and the hope that Russia would soon return to a democratic and pro-Western path. Western leaders continue to embrace President Putin in the face of growing evidence that the country is moving in the wrong direction and that his strategy for fighting terrorism is producing less and less freedom. We firmly believe dictatorship will not and cannot be the answer to Russia's problems and the very real threats it faces.
The leaders of the West must recognize that our current strategy towards Russia is failing. Our policies have failed to contribute to the democratic Russia we wished for and the people of this great country deserve after all the suffering they have endured. It is time for us to rethink how and to what extent we engage with Putin's Russia and to put ourselves unambiguously on the side of democratic forces in Russia. At this critical time in history when the West is pushing for democratic change around the world, including in the broader Middle East, it is imperative that we do not look the other way in assessing Moscow's behavior or create a double standard for democracy in the countries which lie to Europe's East. We must speak the truth about what is happening in Russia. We owe it to the victims of Beslan and the tens of thousands of Russian democrats who are still fighting to preserve democracy and human freedom in their country.
Mr. Urban Ahlin, Member of Parliament, Sweden The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright, Former Secretary of State, United States The Honorable Giuliano Amato, Former Prime Minister, Italy Dr. Uzi Arad, Institute for Policy and Strategy, Israel Dr. Timothy Garton Ash, St. Antony's College, Oxford, United Kingdom Dr. Anders Aslund, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, United States Dr. Ronald D. Asmus, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, United States Mr. Rafael L. Bardaji, Strategic Studies Group, Spain Prof. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Former Foreign Minister, Poland Dr. Arnold Beichman, Hoover Institution, United States Dr. Jeff Bergner, Former Staff Director, U.S. Senate, United States The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Senator, United States Mr. Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister, Sweden Mr. Max Boot, The Council on Foreign Relations, United States Ms. Ellen Bork, Project for the New American Century, United States Mr. Pascal Bruckner, Writer, France Mr. Mark Brzezinski, McGuire Woods LLP, United States Mr. Reinhard Buetikofer, Chairman, Green Party, Germany Dr. Janusz Bugajski, Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States Sir Michael Butler, Former Permanent Representative to the European Community, United Kingdom The Honorable Martin Butora, Former Ambassador, Slovakia Mr. Daniele Capezzone, Italy The Honorable Per Carlsen, Institute of International Affairs, Denmark Ms. Gunilla Carlsson, Member of Parliament, Sweden Dr. Ivo Daalder, Brookings Institution, United States The Honorable Massimo D'Alema, Former Prime Minister, Italy Mr. Pavol Demes, Former Foreign Minister, Slovakia Dr. Larry Diamond, United States His Excellency Philip Dimitrov, Former Prime Minister, Bulgaria Mr. Thomas Donnelly, American Enterprise Institute, United States Mr. Nicholas Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute, United States Mr. Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Former Foreign Minister, Denmark Ms. Helga Flores Trejo, Heinrich B?ll Foundation of North America, United States Dr. Francis Fukuyama, United States Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin, Aspen Institute Berlin, Germany Prof. Bronislaw Geremek, Former Foreign Affairs Minister and Member of European Parliament, Poland Dr. Carl Gershman, National Endowment for Democracy, United States The Honorable Marc Ginsberg, United States Mr. Andre Glucksmann, Writer, France Dr. Phil Gordon, Brookings Institution, United States The Honorable Karl-Theodor von und zu Guttenberg, Member of Parliament, Germany The Honorable Istvan Gyarmati, Institute for Euro-Atlanticism and Democracy, Hungary Mr. Pierre Hassner, Center for International Studies and Research, France His Excellency Vaclav Havel, Former President, Czech Republic The Honorable Richard C. Holbrooke, Former Ambassador to the United Nations, United States The Honorable Toomas Ilves, Former Foreign Minister and Member of European Parliament, Estonia Mr. Bruce Jackson, Project on Transitional Democracies, United States Dr. Donald Kagan, Yale University, United States Mr. Robert Kagan, United States Mr. Jerzy Kozminski, Former Ambassador to the United States, Poland Mr. Craig Kennedy, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, United States Ms. Glenys Kinnock, Member of European Parliament, United Kingdom Dr. Bernard Kouchner, Former UN Special Envoy to Kosovo, France Dr. Ivan Krastev, Center for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria Mr. William Kristol, Project for the New American Century, United States The Honorable Girts Valdis Kristovskis, Former Minister of Defense, Latvia Prof. Dr. Ludger Kuehnhardt, University of Bonn, Germany The Honorable Mart Laar, Former Prime Minister, Estonia The Honorable Vytautas Landsbergis, former President and Member of European Parliament, Lithuania Dr. Stephen Larrabee, RAND Corporation, United States Mr. Mark Leonard, The Foreign Policy Center, United Kingdom The Honorable Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Member of European Parliament, Germany Mr. Tod Lindberg, Policy Review, United States Mr. Tom Malinowski, Human Rights Watch, United States Mr. Will Marshall, Progressive Policy Institute, United States Prof. Dr. Margarita Mathiopoulos, University of Potsdam, Germany Mr. Clifford May, United States The Honorable John McCain, Senator, United States Dr. Michael McFaul, United States Mr. Matteo Mecacci, Italy Mr. Mark Medish, Former Senior Director of the National Security Council, United States Mr. Thomas O. Melia, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, United States Dr. Sarah E. Mendelson, United States Mr. Michael Mertes, Dimap Consult, Germany The Honorable Ilir Meta, Former Prime Minister, Albania Mr. Adam Michnik, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland The Honorable Richard Morningstar, Former Ambassador to the EU, United States Dr. Joshua Muravchik, American Enterprise Institute, United States Gen. Klaus Naumann (ret.), Former Chairman NATO Military Committee, Germany The Honorable Dietmar Nietan, Member of Parliament, Germany Mr. James O'Brien, Former Presidential Envoy to the Balkans, United States The Honorable Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Member of European Parliament, Poland The Honorable Cem Ozdemir, Member of European Parliament, Germany Dr. Can Paker, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, Turkey Ambassador Mark Palmer, Capital Development Company, LLC, United States Mr. Martin Peretz, United States The Honorable Dr. Friedbert Pflueger, Member of Parliament, Germany Ms. Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute, United States Mr. Florentino Portero, Strategic Studies Group, Spain Ms. Samantha Ravich, Phd, Long Term Strategy Project, United States The Honorable Janusz Reiter, Center for International Relations, Poland The Honorable Alex Rondos, Former Ambassador, Greece The Honorable Jim Rosapepe, Former Ambassador to Romania, United States Dr. Jacques Rupnik, Center for International Studies and Research, France Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider, German Council on Foreign Relations, Germany Mr. Randy Scheunemann, Project for the New American Century, United States The Honorable Christian Schmidt, Member of Parliament, Germany Dr. Gary Schmitt, Project for the New American Century, United States Dr. Simon Serfaty, Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States The Honorable Stephen Sestanovich, United States Mr. Radek Sikorski, American Enterprise Institute, United States Mr. Stefano Silvestri, Institute for International Affairs, Italy Mr. Martin Simecka, Editor, Slovakia Dr. Gary Smith, American Academy in Berlin, Germany Dr. Abraham Sofaer, Hoover Institution, United States Mr. James Steinberg, The Brookings Institution, United States Mr. Gary Titley, Member of European Parliament, United Kingdom Mr. Ivan Vejvoda, Fund for Open Society, Serbia The Honorable Sasha Vondra, Former Deputy Foreign Minister, Czech Republic Dr. Celeste Wallander, Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States Prof. Ruth Wedgwood, United States Dr. Richard Weitz, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, United States Mr. Kenneth Weinstein, Hudson Institute, United States Ms. Jennifer Windsor, Freedom House, United States Mr. R. James Woolsey, United States
(Names are listed for identification purposes only. The signatories have signed this letter in their individual capacities.)
Являясь
гражданами Североатлантического сообщества
демократических стран, мы хотим заявить, что
солидарны с народом Российской Федерации и
поддерживаем его в борьбе с терроризмом.
Массовые убийцы, которые захватили школу № 1 в
Беслане, совершили чудовищный террористический
акт, которому не может быть рационального
объяснения или прощения. То, что массовые убийцы
убивали детей и невооруженных гражданских лиц,
расчетливо выбирая невинных детей в школе,
является беспрецедентным варварским действием,
которое попирает нормы и ценности нашего
сообщества. Все цивилизованные нации обязаны это
осудить. |
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