Open letter to US Presidential candidates through newspapers
According to the The Nation / Editor's cut, "Intellectuals worldwide (from the International Ethical College, see list of members below) are sending an open letter to both US Presidential candidates. It is being published today in the United States in The Nation, together with an editorial by the magazine's Editor-in-chief, Katrina van den Heuvel. During the next few days, the letter will also be published in Liberation (France), La Repubblica (Italy), as well as in Central and East European papers." The Collegium was formed in the period leading up to the Sept. 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks.
People who have signed the letter:
Milan KUCAN , former President of Slovenia and Michel ROCARD, former Prime Minister of France, Co-chairs of the International Collegium, Andreas VAN AGT, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands; Henri ATLAN, Bio-physicist and Philosopher, France; Lloyd AXWORTHY, President of University of Winnipeg, former Foreign Minister of Canada; Fernando Henrique CARDOSO, former President of Brazil; Manuel CASTELLS, Sociologist, Spain; Mireille DELMAS-MARTY, Professor of law, Sorbonne and College de France; Ruth DREIFUSS, former President of the Swiss Confederation; Gareth EVANS, President of the ICG, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Australia; Malcolm FRASER, Chairman of the InterAction Council, former Prime Minister, Australia; Bronislaw GEREMEK, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland; Bacharuddin Jusuf HABIBIE, former President of Indonesia; H.R.H. HASSAN BIN TALLAL, Jordan; Vaclav HAVEL, former President of the Czech Republic; Stephane HESSEL, Ambassador of France; Alpha Oumar KONARE, former President of Mali; Claudio MAGRIS, Author, Italy; Edgar MORIN, Philosopher, France; Sadako OGATA, President of Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA), former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Japan; Jacques ROBIN, Philosopher, Founder of Transversales, France; Mary ROBINSON, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, former President of Ireland; Wolfgang SACHS, Economist, Germany; Mohamed SAHNOUN, Ambassador of Algeria; George VASSILIOU, former President of the Republic of Cyprus; Richard VON WEIZSACKER, former President of the Federal Republic of Germany; Huanming YANG, Director and Professor, Beijing Genomics Institute, China.
Source: The Nation / Editor's cut through mediachannel.org newsletter
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