51 Nobel laureate made a joint appeal, calling for immediate termination of hostilities between Ukraine and Russia, reports the French newspaper Le Monde.
At the request published by the famous French edition, Nobel laureates spoke for three main steps to resolve the conflict:
- immediate ceasefire,
- exchange of all captives for all, release of hostages and return of the bodies of the dead,
- Start negotiations.
"If politicians cannot agree, let them resolve issues to the court of future generations and stop fire," the authors write, proposing to freeze the conflict if there is no consensus on other issues.
The laureates declared the serious consequences of this war: the level of killed and wounded in a million people, exacerbation of famine in Africa, migration crisis in Europe, and ecology, expected by the end of the year.
"During this war, budgets in the world have increased so much that compared to resources sufficient to slow down the global change in climate. By killing each other, people at the same time kill the planet," Nobel laureates said.
"The cost of weapons that has been compared to the costs that have stopped famine throughout the planet for 80 years," they added.
The appeal has been sent to the parties to the UN, the European Parliament, the PACE, the Pope and Patriarch Bartholomew.
Among the signatories include Virusologist Francoise Barre-Sinussi (HIV opening Prize), scientist Emmanuel Charpentetier (a prize for the development of the genome editing method), Alan Higer (chemistry prize for opening and development of polymers), as well as dozens of other scholars.
In addition, the text was signed by Russian opposition journalist Dmitry Muratov (Peace Prize, Editor -in -Chief of the New Gazeta) and Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksevich (Literature Prize, lives in emigration).
