Lech Wałęsa: Shushkevich was underappreciated because of the present situation in Belarus
A former Polish President and the leader of “Solidarity” has commented on his decision to nominate Stanislau Shushkivich for the Nobel Peace Prize.
It became known that a former head of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus Stanislau Shushkevich was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday.
The initiator of the nomination was a former Polish President, the leader of “Solidarity” Lech Wałęsa who named five categories according to which Stanislau Shushkevich deserved the prize: 1. Initiative and realization of removal of nuclear weapons from Belarus; 2. Initiative of the meeting of leaders of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine who sighed the Belavezha Accords in December 1991 and confirmed the collapse of the Soviet Union; 3. Active contribution to the peaceful collapse of the USSR; 4. Contribution to peaceful rearrangement of the USSR into independent republics; 5. Devotion to the principles of peace, democracy, human rights and propaganda of these principles.
Lech Wałęsa commented on his decision for ERB.
“The struggle Stanislau Shushkevich participated in led to the end of the epoch of division into blocks, systems, borders and an epoch of peace, welfare and globalization started. This fact makes Shushkevich special but it does not limit his other achievements that were even better”.
Wałęsa thinks that Shushkevich’s merit is in the fact that he promoted the process of globalization in the world and in Europe.
“The processes some people are satisfied with and others are not are only transition processes. You cannot stop the epoch of globalization now, it is impossible to return to the old division. The victory is so much important that we are not able to cope with it and some of us are left behind. However, we need to wait a little and we will become a big European and then a global family. Stanislau Shushkevich actively participated in this process. Problems of Belarus are temporary problems”.
Wałęsa hopes that Belarus will get over its problems and join in the European processes of globalization soon.
“I believe in the prospect that Belarusian people who have such a historic heritage that many other people don’t will be able to enter the new epoch in a really beautiful and fair way”.
The laureate will be announced in the second half of October. Let us remind you that the leader of an unregistered human rights defending organization “Vyasna” Ales Belyatski was nominated for the peace prize last year.
Photo by — 25lat.blox.pl
It became known that a former head of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus Stanislau Shushkevich was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday.
The initiator of the nomination was a former Polish President, the leader of “Solidarity” Lech Wałęsa who named five categories according to which Stanislau Shushkevich deserved the prize: 1. Initiative and realization of removal of nuclear weapons from Belarus; 2. Initiative of the meeting of leaders of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine who sighed the Belavezha Accords in December 1991 and confirmed the collapse of the Soviet Union; 3. Active contribution to the peaceful collapse of the USSR; 4. Contribution to peaceful rearrangement of the USSR into independent republics; 5. Devotion to the principles of peace, democracy, human rights and propaganda of these principles.
Lech Wałęsa commented on his decision for ERB.
“The struggle Stanislau Shushkevich participated in led to the end of the epoch of division into blocks, systems, borders and an epoch of peace, welfare and globalization started. This fact makes Shushkevich special but it does not limit his other achievements that were even better”.
Wałęsa thinks that Shushkevich’s merit is in the fact that he promoted the process of globalization in the world and in Europe.
“The processes some people are satisfied with and others are not are only transition processes. You cannot stop the epoch of globalization now, it is impossible to return to the old division. The victory is so much important that we are not able to cope with it and some of us are left behind. However, we need to wait a little and we will become a big European and then a global family. Stanislau Shushkevich actively participated in this process. Problems of Belarus are temporary problems”.
Wałęsa hopes that Belarus will get over its problems and join in the European processes of globalization soon.
“I believe in the prospect that Belarusian people who have such a historic heritage that many other people don’t will be able to enter the new epoch in a really beautiful and fair way”.
The laureate will be announced in the second half of October. Let us remind you that the leader of an unregistered human rights defending organization “Vyasna” Ales Belyatski was nominated for the peace prize last year.
Photo by — 25lat.blox.pl
