The Hungarian Civic Peace Conference held in Budapest on Sunday by the title „Hungary for the european Peace with Merkel and Putin”, has urged the hungarian government to play a role of mediation between East and West to avoid the military conflict threatening the continent because the crisis in Ukraine, and make an offer to german chancelor Angela Merkel and russian president Vladimir Putin shortly visiting Hungary, to organise in Budapest a pan-european conference on security and cooperation. The 16 civic and political organisations composing the Hungarian Civic Community for Peace have called for a European Peace, instead of the American Peace based on the subordination of Europe to the economical interests of US, and the expansion of NATO up to the russian borders. The conference, followed by the Consul in Budapest of the Russian Federation, has urged EU and NATO to raise at european level the opening to East policy of Hungary, promoving by this the political solution of the ukranian conflict, the peaceful cooperation with Russia and with the Eurasian Economical Union born on 1st January. „We want a european Peace with Merkel and Putin, not against but with the US” – the 11 points declaration writes. They have called the attention to the fact, that in case of failure of the political solution in Ukraine, the security of Hungary (and of Europe) would be put in danger. An immediate threaten is emerging in the field of gaz supply after the Gazprom chief announcement to end with the shipment across the gaz lines crossing Ukraine and reroute it to Turkey. It is interest of Hungary and of all Europe to build good relations with Russia and include the giant of East Europe into an equal rights European cooperation, wich is not the case now. The Hungarian Civic Community reaffirms his opinion about the solution of the ukranian crisis: ukranian sides must start from their own agreement of 21st February 2014, giving a new federal constitution to the country, granting equal rights and large autonomy to all people and national minorities living in Ukraine, including the right to separation, that is the self-determination. The participants of the civic conference have condemned the sabre-rattling policy of ukranian PM Jatseniuk and have expressed their consternation because his interview to the ARD saying that in 1941 it was not Hitler’s Germany having attacked the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union having attacked Germany. The conference document emphesises that such a behaviour not only shows the real caracter of Kiev policy, but also reveals which kind of political forces NATO and EU are building Allinace with in Ukraine against Russia. „Where is the pencil of Pope Francis, Mr. Jatseniuk, given you to sign the Peace agreement with Moscow” – question is put in the civic document. The Hungarian Peace Community has protested against the military mobilisation in Ukraine with the appointment to Donbass front of three thousand of military age men from Sub-Carpathian Region, amongst them Hungarians. They have condemned the Kiev policy to pit peoples against peoples, Hungarians against Russians. They have also protested against the plan of Kiev to ban the double citizenship of the peoples lkiving in Ukraine, including hungarian people of Sub-Carpathian Region. The declaration of the Civic Peace Conference of Budapest  finally expressed his philosophy with the following words: „A more peaceful, just and human future can be open by new forms of living together based on the synthesis of different economical, ethical and social values integrating the fundamental values of economical efficiency and of social justice.+++

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20 January 2015