European Leadership Network Issues Renewed Call & More Signers on Urgent Call for NATO-Russia Dialogue to Avoid War

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The European Leadership Network (ELN), a think-tank composed of former European and Russian defense and foreign ministers and other high-level experts, has just released a renewed, urgent call for “new NATO-Russia measures to prevent a military confrontation in Europe.”

Less than a month ago, on Aug. 12, the ELN had issued a paper stating that “The NATO-Russia Council should be urgently convened” to agree on a Memorandum of Understanding governing the “safety of air and maritime encounters between the two sides.”

As the new ELN release states:

“The new group of endorsers behind these proposals adds growing weight to those expressing concern about the trajectory of political and military relations between Russia and the West.” The August document had stated bluntly: “Russia is preparing for a conflict with NATO, and NATO is preparing for a possible confrontation with Russia.” As Helga Zepp-LaRouche wrote at the time: “The only thing wrong with this study is the assumption that such a war would remain confined to Europe. It is in the nature of things that such a war would instantly become a global nuclear war, and would lead to the obliteration of the human species.”

The 75 security leaders include two former NATO Secretaries General (Javier Solana and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer); a former Deputy SACEUR (John McColl); a number of former Defense Secretaries (including France’s Alain Richard, Germany’s Volker Ruehe, and Poland’s Janusz Onyskiewicz); a number of former Foreign Ministers (including Russia’s Sergei Ivanov and Boris Pankin, the United Kingdom’s Malcolm Rifkind, and Denmark’s Uffe Ellmann-Jensen); and other highly respected security leaders (such as Germany’s Wolfgang Ischinger and the United Kingdom’s General Sir David Richards).

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