Clam dels ajuntaments i àrees metropolitanes contra la invasió russa a Ucraïna

 

Un centenar d’alcaldesses, alcaldes i representants d’àrees metropolitanes europees han signat la Declaració de Mariupol condemnant la invasió russa d’Ucraïna, i cridant els governs europeus i la Comissió Europea a augmentar els esforços per aturar la guerra.

 

Entre el centenar de signants de la declaració figuren Laia Bonet, tinent d’alcalde de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona, i Ernest Maragall, vicepresident de l’Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB).
 
En la declaració, entre altres demandes, els representants d’ens locals demanen: que la UE pressioni el govern rus per obrir corredors humanitaris, que Europa adopti polítiques de solidaritat i programi l’acollida i integració de persones refugiades provinents d’Ucraïna i que Europa aturi qualsevol transacció econòmica amb Rússia i Bielorrússia mentre l’exèrcit rus no es retiri d’Ucraïna.

Adjuntem, a conitnuació, el text íntegre de la Declaració de Mariupol.

 

 

Urgent Call from Mariupol

 

 

Joint Call of European Mayors to European governments and the European Commission on raising efforts to end the war in Europe

 

We strongly condemn Russia’s war acts and armed aggression against Ukraine. Nothing can justify Russia’s illegal use of force.

 

While Ukraine is on the path to joining the EU, Ukrainians and other European nations are already integrated. Ukrainians already constitute more than 10% of citizens in a dozen EU cities. There is no major European city, county or region without Ukrainian women and men. 

 

Today, our Ukrainian sisters and brothers are forced to defend their homeland. Although the EU and its citizens have initiated hundreds of humanitarian and solidarity actions, every one of us can see that Ukraine stands alone against the aggression of a much more powerful invader. After 20 days of the unprovoked destruction of the 40-million nation of Ukraine, we are calling on you to act immediately:

 

We call on you to force the Russian government to open humanitarian corridors. Europe cannot just stand by and watch while innocent people are ruthlessly murdered with impunity. We cannot accept that so called humanitarian corridors “opened” by the Russian army are corridors in which civilians are being shot at and killed, while trying to escape on foot or by bus. Our friends must look up to the sky not for hope, but rockets fired at them. All military action toward civilians must end now. We believe it is Europe’s and its global allies’ duty to enforce it.

 

We call for European solidarity to work out and swiftly adopt decisions concerning the refugees’ capable reception and relocation in Europe. We call for the governments of the border countries between the EU and Ukraine to engage with international and national organizations with expertise in emergency response and crisis management. Humanitarian aid for internally displaced women and children in Western Ukraine should also be initiated as soon as possible. Unless we act now, the biggest refugee crisis after WWII will turn into a humanitarian catastrophe.

 

We agree that all European countries need to act, participate in the support and show solidarity. We will fulfil the EU 2015 decision on common and shared responsibility related to the refugee crisis management and support.

 

We demand a stop to all trade relations with Russia and Belarus until the Russian army withdraws from Ukraine. It is a choice of profound gravity, but we have no doubts whatsoever about how European values should guide us. We believe that the lives of women and men are more important than trade, jobs and even energy. Even though it is challenging, the choice should be very simple. You do not trade with murderers and liars.

 

We strongly believe in European solidarity to manage the inevitable energy crisis. We believe that the EU member states will equally share the burden of radically eliminating fossil fuels from our economies. We have no doubts that the sudden shock of ending our addiction to oil, gas and coal is a necessary sacrifice compared to the sacrifice of innocent Ukrainian women and men. In the face of war crimes and genocide, “business as usual” must end.

 

Finally, we call on all the mayors of the world and on the international community to speak with one voice: deliberate attacks on civilians are war crimes. Starving thousands of innocent men, women and children and making entire communities of people die from hypothermia is genocide. International tribunals must fulfill their duties. The guilty must be punished. In order to do so, war crimes evidence must be well documented for future trials at the ICC and elsewhere.

 

It is with great respect that we observe thousands of brave Russian youth and elders who are being detained for taking part in rallies each day. At the same time, we condemn all those who support Russian propaganda that makes it impossible for their fellow citizens to access the truth. In fact, they support the terror in Ukraine.

 

We hereby demand the immediate release of the captured, detained and, most probably, tortured mayors of Melitopol and Dniprorudne. We are hoping for a longstanding peace between the EU and a democratic and law-abiding Russia that respects human rights.

 

For the past 20 days, the citizens of our cities and villages have been helping Ukrainian refugees, and we will not stop helping in any way we can. This is our priority. However, the current situation does not allow us not to speak out about what our citizens feel.

 

Could we ever again believe in Europe if it lets one of the European countries bleed out and fall into ruin? We ask for more. The time is now.

 

Mayors of European Cities and European City :

 

Vadim Boichenko, Mayor of Mariupol

Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, Mayor of Gdansk

Dario Nardella, Mayor of Florence, President of the Eurocities ( association of 233 cities)

Roberto Gualtieri, Mayor of Rome

Zdeněk Hřib, Mayor of Prague

Rafał Trzaskowski, Mayor of Warsaw

Raymond Johansen, Governing Mayor of Oslo

Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London

Carlos Moedas, Mayor of Lisbon

Kostas Bakoyannis, Mayor of Athens

Tomas Gulbinas, Deputy Mayor of Vilnius

Edvards Smiltens, Vice Mayor of Riga

Minna Arve, Mayor of Turku

Mathias De Clercq, Mayor of Ghent

Burkhard Jung, Mayor of Leipzig  

Andreas Bovenschulte, Mayor of Bremen

Peter Kurz, Mayor of Mannheim

Peter Feldmann, Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main

19.Gunter Czisch, Lord  Mayor City of Ulm

Katrin Albsteiger, Lord Mayor, City of Neu-Ulm

Michèle Rubirola, Mayor of Maresille

Tomislav Tomašević, Mayor of Zagreb

Gregory Doucet, Mayor of Lyon

Leoluca Orlando, Mayor of Palermo, President of the Sicilian Association of Cities

Juan Mari Aburto, Mayor of Bilbao

Laia Bonet, Deputy Mayor of Barcelona

Ernest Maragall Barcelona Metro Area, Vice-president of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area

Triin Varek, Mayor of Rakvere

Filipe Ferreira, Metropolitan Secretary, Lisbon Metropolitan Area

Ricardo Rio, Mayor of Braga

Matteo Lepore, Mayor of Bologna

Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester

​​Jordi Ballart, Mayor of Terrassa

Jennifer Ramírez, Councillor of Terrassa

Anna-Lisa boni, Deputy Mayor, Bologna

Bev Craig, Councillor, Manchester,

Rita Viljanen, City of Vantaa

Jimmy Nordengren, Deputy Mayor of Örebro

Dominic Fritz, Mayor of Timisoara

Jukka Makela, Mayor of the City of Espoo

Wojciech Szczurek, Mayor of Gdynia

Jacek Karnowski, Mayor of Sopot, president of the Polish Local Government Movement ‘Tak! dla Polski’

Ellie  King, Cabinet member for Public Health, Communities and One City, Bristol

Susana Carillo Aparicio, Vice Mayor of Malaga

Huw Thomas, Leader of Cardiff Council

Lauri Lyly, Mayor of Tampere

Aino-Maija Luukkonen, Mayor of Pori

Anna Tenje, Mayor of Växjö

Visvaldas Matijosaitis,  Mayor of Kaunas

Johan Persso, Mayor of Kalmar

Ritva Viljanen, Mayor of Vantaa

Ann Kajson Carlqvist,  Mayor of Trelleborg

Erik Rostoft, Deputy Mayor of  kristiansand

Laur Kaljuvee, Vice Mayor of Rakvere

Lars Vikinge, City of Linkoping

Janis Baiks, Chairman of Valmiera

Rytis Račkauskas, Mayor of Panevezys City

Ralvis Ragainis, Chairman of Jēkabpils municipality Council

Jimmy Nordengren, Mayor of Orebo

Aires Pereira, Mayor of Póvoa de Varzim

Anders Josefsson, Deputy Mayor of Lulea

Tadeusz Truskolaski, Mayor of Białystok, president of the Union of Polish Metropolises

Rafał Bruski, Mayor of Bydgoszcz

Marcin Krupa, Mayor of Katowice

Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Kraków

Krzysztof Żuk, Mayor of Lublin

Hanna Zdanowska, Mayor of Łódź

Jacek Jaśkowiak, Mayor of Poznań

Konrad Fijołek, Mayor of Rzeszów

Piotr Krzystek, Mayor of Szczecin

Jacek Sutryk, Mayor of Wrocław

Dorota Zmarzlak, Mayor of Izabelin

Janusz Wróbel, Mayor of Pruszcz Gdański

Magdalena Kołodziejczak, Mayor of Pruszcz Gdański rural commune

Krzysztof Swat, Mayor of Krynica Morska

 Hanna Pruchniewska, Mayor of Puck

Artur Tusiński, Mayor of Podkowa Leśna

Piotr Grzymowicz, Mayor of Olsztyn

Anna Mieczkowska, Mayor of Kołobrzeg

Arkadiusz Wiśniewski, Mayor of Opole

Andrzej Nowakowski, Mayor of Płock

Jerzy Łuźniak, Mayor of Jelenia Gora

Roman Szełemej, Mayor of Wałbrzych

Artur Kozioł, Mayor of Wieliczka

Gabriela Staszkiewicz, Mayor of Cieszyn

Przemysław Major, Deputy Mayor of Cieszyn

Daniel Putkiewicz, Mayor of Piaseczno

Małgorzata Żebrowska, Mayor of Łomianki

Marcin Jakubowski, Mayor of Mińsk Mazowiecki

Elżbieta Radwan, Mayor of Wołomin

Albina Łubian, Mayor of Pilawa

Marek Banaszek, Mayor of Józefów

 Mirosław Lech, Mayor of Korycin municipality

 Beata Moskal-Słaniewska, Mayor of Świdnica

 Roman Ciepiela, Mayor of Tarnów

Kazimierz Karolczak, President of the Metropolitan Area of Silesia

Zygmunt  Frankiewicz, President of the Union of the Polish Cities

Henk Bouwman, Secretary-General, METREX network for European Metropolitan Regions and Areas (Association of 51 metropolitan regions and areas inhabited by 125 million inhabitants)

Antonella Valmorbida, Secretary General of ALDA, Strasbourg

Mantas Jurgutis, President of Union of the Baltic Cities

 

With a global support:

101. Nina Hachigian, Deputy Mayor for International Affairs in Los Angeles  

102. Wen-Je Ko, Mayor of Taipei