Mr. President,
We would like to thank you for making it possible, with the invaluable support of the Netherlands and Denmark, for the first F-16s to be deployed in Ukraine in the near future. We hope that this heralds the formation of an air force of 200 to 300 aircraft which will allow Ukraine to effectively defend its airspace.
Without indulging in pessimism or defeatism, it seems the enemy Ukraine faces today has learned from its initial military mistakes, revitalised its military-industrial complex and mastered new types of armament. Russia has also been able to find new sources of arms supplies from some of its allies. From this point of view, Iran’s delivery of glide bombs and the likely supply of medium-range missiles are particularly worrying.
We are writing to you as president of the leading country in the Ramstein coalition to ask you to lift the restrictions on the use of weapons supplied by your country, and to call on the coalition member countries to do likewise, so that the Ukrainian army can neutralise military structures and equipment, ammunition and fuel depots, and military production facilities deep inside enemy territory.
Furthermore, the failure of certain European and American companies to comply with the embargo on the supply of military or dual-use technologies to Russia is in our view particularly serious. It requires a very firm response, which could consist of the creation within NATO of a structure modelled on the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom) of the Cold War. The committee would be responsible for ensuring full compliance with the ban on the export of any sensitive technology to countries representing a real or potential threat to the free world. In addition to Russia, these include the People’s Republic of China, Iran, North Korea and Belarus.
Mr. President, without a much stronger mobilisation than we have seen so far, neither Ukraine, nor all the countries in the coalition, will be able to win this war. Without a shift to a war economy on the part of all Western countries, and the increase in arms procurement that this implies, Moscow’s strategy of buying time and banking on the fatigue of governments and public opinion is likely to pay off. We cannot allow that to happen.
Highest regards,
Signatories
Filippos Andrianos, commodore (ret.), Hellenic Navy, Greece
Vincenzo Camporini, general (ret.), former Chief of Defence, Italy
Vincent Desportes, general (ret.), former director of the Centre for Doctrine and Use of Forces (CDEF), associated professor at Sciences Po, France
Vicente Díaz de Villegas y Herrería, general (ret.), Spanish Army, security and defence analyst, Spain
Eric S. Edelman, ambassador (ret.), former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, 2005-2009, USA
Gert-Johannes Hagemann, major general (ret.), German Army, Berlin, Germany
Willy Herteleer, admiral (ret.), ex Belgian Chief of Defence
Ben Hodges, lieutenant general (ret.), former Commander of the US Army in Europe, USA
Anton Hofreiter, Chairman of the Committee on European Union Affairs of the Bundestag, Germany
Heribert Hupka, brigadier general (ret.), German Army, Wachtberg, Germany
Sandra Kalnieté, member of the European Parliament, former EU Commissioner, former Foreign Affairs minister, Latvia
Roderich Kiesewetter, member of the Bundestag, representative of Foreign Affairs for the CDU/CSU-caucus, Germany
David J. Kramer, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights & Labor
Andrius Kubilius, member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of Lithuania
Vytautas Landsbergis, former President of the Republic of Lithuania
Pandeli Majko, former Prime Minister of Albania
Jean Paul Perruche, general (ret.), former director general of the European Union Military Staff, France
Paolo Puri, general (ret.), former military advisor to the Prime Minister of Italy
Marc Thys, lieutenant-general (ret.), former Vice Chief of Defense, Belgium
Pekka Toveri, major general (ret.), member of Parliament, Finland
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Gian Paolo Accardo, cofounder and editor-in-chief of Voxeurop, Belgium/France
Jean-Marc Adolphe, journalist, director of leshumanites-media.com, France
Cengiz Aktar, professor of political science at the University of Athens
Guillaume Ancel, lieutenant-colonel (ret.), writer, essayist, author of the Blog Ne Pas Subir, France
Martin Andler, mathematician, professor emeritus, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin, France
Antoine Arjakovsky, director of research, Collège des Bernardins, France
Bill Ashcroft, emeritus professor, University of New South Wales, Australia
Nicolas Auzanneau, translator, France/Belgium
François Bafoil, emeritus director of research, CNRS, senior research fellow, CNRS, France
Pierre Bayard, professor emeritus at the University of Paris 8, France
Martine Benoit, professor of Germanic Studies, University of Lille, France
Gérard Bensussan, philosopher, professor emeritus at the University of Strasbourg, France
Marc P. Berenson, associate professor, School of Politics and Economics, King’s College London, UK
Olga Bertelsen, associate professor of Global Security and Intelligence, Tiffin University, USA
Annick Bilobran-Karmazyn, president of ADVULE, France
Marie-Aline Bloch, honorary professor at the Ecole des Hautes Études de santé publique, France
Vassilios Bogiatzis, research and teaching associate, Panteion University, Athens, Greece
Etienne Boillet, senior lecturer in Italian Studies, University of Poitiers, France
Vincent Bouchard, associate professor of Francophone Studies, Indiana University, USA
Pierre Bouchat, assistant professor of social psychology at the University of Lorraine, France
Jean-Loup Bourget, emeritus professor of film studies, Ecole normale supérieure, France
John Bowis, former member of the European Parliament and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Peter Bowness, member of the United Kingdom House of Lords
Alberto Bramati, associate professor, French Linguistics, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Emil Brix, ambassador, director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria
Giovanna Brogi, emeritus professor, Milan University, Italy
Elmar Brok, former chairman of the Committe on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament, former President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF), Germany
Michel Caillouët, former ambassador of the European Union, France
Marco Cappato, former member of the European Parliament, Italy
Paulo Casaca, former member of the Portuguese Parliament and of the European Parliament
Giovanni Catelli, writer, poet, Eastjournal correspondent, Italy
Leo M. Chalupa, neuroscientist, professor, School of Medicine, George Washington University, USA
Ralph S. Clem, emeritus professor and senior fellow, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University, USA
Daniel Coche, writer-director-producer, former lecturer at the University of Strasbourg, France
Dominique Colas, professor emeritus of Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris, France
Michel Collot, professor of French Literature at the University of Paris III, France
Georges Dallemagne, member of Parliament, Belgium
Christophe D’Aloisio, researcher affiliated to the Research Institute Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies (RSCS, UCLouvain), Belgium
Pierre d’Argent, professor of International Law, University of Louvain, member of the Institute of International Law, Belgium
Francesco D’Arrigo, director of the Italian Institute of Strategic Studies
Louis Daubresse, associate researcher at the Institut de Recherche sur le Cinéma et l’Audiovisuel, France
Julia David, associate member of the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History (CNRS/ENS), France
Franziska Davies, fellow at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) Potsdam, Germany
Franco Debenedetti, entrepreneur, essayist, former senator, Italy
Costantino De Blasi, economist, founder of Liberi Oltre le Illusioni (Free Beyond Illusions), Italy
Isabelle de Mecquenem, philosophy teacher and member of the Conseil des sages de laïcité of the French Ministry of Education
Mark Demesmaeker, senator, chair of the Committee of Transversal Affairs, Belgium
Sébastien Denis, professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Christian Dietrich, former member of the Anti-Communist Resistance in Germany, Protestant pastor, Erfurt, Germany
Martin Dietze, journalist, president of the German-Ukrainian Cultural Association (Deutsch-Ukrainischer Kulturverein e.V.)
Massimiliano Di Pasquale, research associate at the Gino Germani Institute of Social Sciences and Strategic Studies and Head of the Ukraine Observatory (Rome), Italy
Iryna Dmytrychyn, historian, translator and lecturer at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco), specialist in Ukraine, France
Oleksandra Domagalo-Jacquemin, deputy chairwoman of the Association of Ukrainian Women in Belgium
Françoise Dubor, professor of literature and theatre studies at the University of Poitiers, France
Jean-Bernard Dupont-Melnyczenko, professor of history, honorary dean of the College of IA IPRs of the Académie d’Amiens, France
Olivier Dupuis, former member of the European Parliament, Belgium
Emmanuel Dupuy, president of the Institute for Prospective and Security in Europe (IPSE), France
Marc Elie, research fellow at the CNRS, deputy director of the Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies – Cercec, France
Ants Erm, marine scientist, former member of Parliament, Estonia
Nino Evgenidze, executive director at the Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC), Georgia
Martin Exner, member of Parliament, Czech Republic
Penelope Faulkner, vice-president of Quê Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam, France
Andrej Findor, associate professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Claude Forest, professor emeritus, University of Strasbourg, France
Jean-Louis Fournel, professor at the University of Paris 8, France
Nicolas Franckx, translator, lecturer in Russian, faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Alexandre François, CNRS scholar in linguistics, France
Vanessa Frangville, professor in Chinese studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
Natalia Gamalova, professor of Russian Language and Literature, Department of Slavic Studies, University of Lyon 3, France
Xavier Galmiche, professor of Central European Studies at the Slavic Studies Department of the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne, France
Lycina Gebert, professor of Slavic Linguistics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Vitaliano Gemelli, former member of the European Parliament, Italy
Mridula Ghosh, senior lecturer, Department of International Relations, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
Oscar Giannino, journalist and politician, Italy
Sébastien Gobert, journalist, France/Ukraine
Paul Goble, analyst, specialist on the Peoples of the Former Soviet Space, USA
Wojciech Górecki, senior fellow at OSW (Centre for Eastern Studies), Warsaw, Poland
Svetlana Gorshenina, historian, art historian, historiographer and specialist on Central Asia, director of research at CNRS Eur’Orbem, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
Andrea Graziosi, professor of Contemporary History, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Paul Grod, president, Ukrainian World Congress, USA
Jaroslaw Gryz, professor, Faculty of Security, War Studies University, Warsaw, Poland
Jean-Yves Guérin, professor of French literature at the Sorbonne nouvelle University, France
Raphaëlle Guidée, senior lecturer, IUF / University of Poitiers, France
Mark Harrison, emeritus professor of Economics, University of Warwick, UK
Pavel Havlicek, research fellow at the Association for International Affairs (AMO), Czech Republic
Richard Herzinger, columnist, Berlin, Germany
Gerold Hildebrand, social scientist, former member of oppositional Environmental Library in East-Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Sophie Hohmann, senior lecturer, Inalco, Paris, France
Krystyna Jaworska, professor of Polish Language and Literature, University of Turin, Italy
Luba Jurgenson, writer, translator, professor of Russian literature at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
Christian Kaunert, professor of International Security Policy, Dublin City University and University of South Wales
Ian Kelly, former U.S. ambassador to the OSCE and to Georgia
Anita Khachaturova, doctoral researcher in political science, Cevipol, ULB, Belgium
André Klarsfeld, professor (ret.) of physiology at ESPCI Paris-Université PSL, vice-chairman of “Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre !”, France
Andrey Kovatchev, member of the European Parliament, Bulgaria
Oksana Kozlova, lecturer in Russian, faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Robert S. Kravchuk, emeritus professor, Indiana University, USA
Eerik-Niiles Kross, member of Parliament, former director of intelligence, Estonia
Batu Kutelia, senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, former ambassador to the US, Georgia
Taras Kuzio, professor of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and associate research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, Ukraine
Bertrand Lambolez, professor of Neuroscience, director of research INSERM, vice-President of the NPO “Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur Liberté et la Nôtre”, France
Pierre Larrouturou, member of the European Parliament, France
Marius Laurinavičius, senior analyst with the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre, Lithuania
Gérard Lauton, honorary senior lecturer, applied mathematics, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), France
Aurélie Ledoux, senior lecturer, University of Paris Nanterre, France
Atis Lejins, former member of Parliament, founder of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs, Latvia
Nathalie Lemaire, lecturer, School of Translation and Interpreting ISTI-Cooremans ULB, Belgium
Mathieu Lericq, researcher in Film Studies, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, France
Françoise Létoublon, emeritus professor, UGA, Grenoble, France
Sylvie Lindeperg, professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and emeritus member of the Institut Universitaire de France
Julian Lindley-French, analyst, senior fellow, Institute of Statecraft, chairman of The Alphen Group (TAG), Netherlands
Jonathan Littell, writer, Prix Goncourt, France
Mihhail Lotman, emeritus professor, Tallinn University, former member of Parliament, Estonia
Frédérique Longuet Marx, anthropologist research associate at Cetobac, France
Lubomyr Luciuk, professor, Department of Political Science and Economics, Royal Military College of Canada
Benoît Lutgen, member of the European Parliament, Belgium
Orysia Lutsevych, deputy director, Russia and Eurasia, head of the Ukraine Forum, Chatham House, UK
Jaak Madison, member of the European Parliament, Estonia
Aušra Maldeikienė, member of the European Parliament, Lithuania
Matas Maldeikis, member of Parliament, Lithuania
Damien Marguet, associate professor, co-head of Film Studies Department, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, France
Luigi Marinelli, professor of literature, Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies, ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
André Markowicz, writer, translator, France
Eric Marty, writer and professor emeritus, University of Paris, France
Myroslav Marynovych, vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, former prisoner of conscience (1977-1987), Ukraine
Alain Maskens, physician, oncologist, founder and former medical coordinator of the European Organization for Cooperation in Cancer Prevention Studies (ECP), Belgium
Marie-Claude Maurel, director of Studies at EHESS, Centre d’études russe, caucasien et centre-européen, France
Rachel Mazuy, Associate researcher at the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent, lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, France
Michael McFaul, professor of Political Science, director of Freeman Spogli Institute, Hoover senior fellow at Stanford University, former Ambassador to Russia, USA
Alvydas Medalinskas, political analyst, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Lithuanian Parliament
Stefan Meister, head of the Center for Order and Governance in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia at the German Council on Foreign Relations, Germany
Alexandre Melnik, professor at ICN Business School, expert and consultant in geopolitics, France
Marc-Emmanuel Mélon, professor emeritus, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Liège, Belgium
Wojciech Michnik, assistant professor of International Relations and Security Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Marko Mihkelson, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Estonia
Nona Mikhelidze, senior fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome, Italy
Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier, professor of history and geography and researcher at the Institut Français de Géopolitique (University of Paris VIII), France
Emmanuel Morucci, doctor in sociology, chairman of CECI, France
Alexander Motyl, professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, USA
Véronique Nahoum-Grappe, anthropologist, researcher at EHESS, Centre Edgar Morin, France
Boris Najman, associate professor and researcher in Economics at University Paris East Créteil, France
Olevs Nikers, president of the Baltic Security Foundation, Latvia
Elena A. Nikulina, analyst of Ukrainian/Russian affairs, Ukraine/Germany
Alvydas Nikžentaitis, senior research fellow of the Lithuanian Institute of History, president of Lithuanian National Historians Committee
Lydia Obolensky, professor of Russian Language and Literature, Belgium
Michal Onderco, professor of International Relations at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Ong Thong Hoeung, writer, survivor of the Khmer Rouge re-education camps, Belgium/Cambodia
Natalia Ostach, president of the Union of Ukrainian Women in Belgium
Zaneta Ozolina, professor, director at the Centre for International Politics, University of Latvia
Doris Pack, president of EPP Women, president of the Robert Schuman Institute, former member of the European Parliament and the Bundestag, Germany
Carmelo Palma, journalist, director of Strade-on-line, Italy
Filipe Papança, professor at the Military Academy (Amadora), Portugal
Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, professor of International Relations, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, Italy
Žygimantas Pavilionis, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Lithuanian Parliament
Anne-Marie Pelletier, emeritus professor of Literature, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies and History, Northwestern University, fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, USA
Jan Pieklo, Polish ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019)
Steven Pinker, professor, Cognitive Psychology, Harvard University, USA
Antony Polonsky, emeritus professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University, USA
Elena Poptodorova, vice president of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, former Ambassador to the US, former member of Parliament
Jean-Yves Pranchère, professor of Political Theory, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Bohdan Prots, associate professor, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine
Jean-Paul Pylypczuk, director of the publication « La parole ukrainienne », France
Laura Quercioli Mincer, professor of Polish Literature, University of Genoa, Italy
Eva Quistorp, theologian, political scientist and writer, former member of the European Parliament, Germany
Utz Rachowski, poet and former East German political prisoner, Germany
Nadège Ragaru, historian and political scientist, director of research at Sciences Po (CERI-CNRS), professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France
Pierre Raiman, historian, secretary of the NPO “Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre”, France
Yasha Reibman, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Italy
Frédérique Ries, member of the European Parliament, Belgium
Christian Rocca, Linkiesta editorial director, Italy
Sylvie Rollet, emeritus professor, chairwoman of the NPO “Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre”
Avital Ronell, professor of German and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA
Bronis Ropė, member of the European Parliament, Lithuania
Dovilė Šakalienė, member of the National Security and Defense Committee of the Lithuanian Parliament, Lithuania
Marie-Claude San Juan, author and columnist, France
Andrei Sannikov, chairman of the European Belarus Foundation, former deputy foreign Minister, former prisoner of consciousness, Belarus
Ulrich Schmölcke, senior researcher at the ZBSA, Schleswig, Germany
Perrine Simon-Nahum, professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, director of research at the CNRS, France
Myroslav Shkandrij, professor of Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada
Sjoerd Sjoerdsma, member of Parliament, Netherlands
Michael Sohlman, Swedish economist, former Chair of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), executive director of the Nobel Foundation, Sweden
Roman Solchanyk, former senior analyst, RFE/RL Research Institute (Munich) and RAND Corp., Santa Monica, California, USA
George Soroka, lecturer on Government and assistant director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University, USA
Paul Bernd Spahn, emeritus professor of economics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Reinier Speelman, member of Icon, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Ivan Štefanec, member of the European Parliament, Slovakia
Raúl Suevos, colonel (ret), former director of communication at the Eurocorps and former commander of the multinational HQ Battalion of Eurocorps, Spain
Martin Svárovský, advisor to the deputy speaker of the Czech Parliament and Chairman of the Committee on European Affairs, Czech Republic
Marcin Święcicki, former Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, former Mayor of Warsaw, Poland
Malgorzata Smorag-Goldberg, professor of Polish Studies at the Slavic Studies Department of Sorbonne Université, France
Wally Struys, professor emeritus, defence economist, Royal Military Academy, Belgium
Maxim Tarnawsky, professor, University of Toronto, Canada
Catalin Tenita, member of Parliament, Romania
Françoise Thom, historian and sovietologist, honorary lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France
Astrid Thors, former Minister for Migration and European Affairs, former Member of the European Parliament, Finland
Bela Tsipuria, professor of Comparative Literature at Ilia State University, Deputy Minister of Education and Sciences, Georgia
Andreas Umland, analyst, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies
Cécile Vaissié, professor of Russian and Soviet Studies, University of Rennes 2, France
Sophie Vanhoonacker, professor, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Marguerite Vappereau, lecturer and researcher in Film Studies, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, France
Maïrbek Vatchagaev, Chechen historian and political analyst of the North Caucasus at the Jamestown Foundation, co-editor of the journal “Caucasus Survey”
Olivier Védrine, professor, journalist, member of the Board of Jean Monnet association, France
Guido Vitiello, writer, columnist, associate professor of Cinema and Visual Culture at La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
Hugo von Essen, analyst, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies
Anna Wieslander, chair of the Board, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, Sweden
Paul Zawadzki,senior lecturer in Political Science at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Miroslav Žiak, former member of Parliament, Slovakia
Emanuelis Zingeris, member of Parliament, Lithuania
Othar Zourabichvili, president of the Georgian Association in France
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