We think that rather your vision of Europe suits our conceptions and hopes: Letter from KOS WE PUBLISH below the response group to make contact with END. Dear friends, We read the text of your Appeal with great interest. Many of the opinions expressed on the actual international situation and the way that this could be changed according to the aspirations of the peoples of Europe are similar to our own.
"The freedom and dignity of individual citizens are the key to the freedom and self-determination of nations. And only sovereign nations can transform Europe into a community of equal partners which would not pose the threat of a global nuclear war, but instead serve as an example of real peaceful coexistence."
1.0 The members of the WE are France, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, West Germany, the United Kingdom and Belgium. The aim of the WEU is gradual European integration in the fields of economics, politics and military matters. The organization has a standing committee on arms. to Charter 77 of the Polish Committee of Social
We share your ideal of a Europe free from external and internal violence, a Europe of freedom and peace, as we stated in our Perugia Declaration. We explained our standpoint in detail in the KOS declaration 'Peace is indivisible'.
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However we believe that in order to achieve this ideal we must include all the controversial problems that exist on our continent nowadays. While we support your standpoint on the unification of Germany and the inviolability of European borders -the KOS message to the Berlin Conference — we must point out that the fate of free peoples deprived of their independence by the Soviet Union is an equally important problem. A new Europe cannot be built without the participation of the Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Belorussians and Ukranians. We believe that this matter should be included in such an important document as the Prague Appeal.
Neither do we share your completely positive opinion on the negotiating process of Helsinki. In spite of its pretensions this process has reinforced the bloc-logic instead of overcoming it.
These reservations, together with other minor ones, make it impossible for us to sign your Appeal in its present form.
However, we think that such controversial matters can be overcome in a dialogue, in which this actual exchange of views could be the starting point. Such a dialogue is vital to our organisations, both of whom share the same values and are engaged in fighting the same evil.
At the same time we want to assure you of our complete solidarity with you and to express our gratitude for the numerous times you have shown your support for our society's struggle against coercion and violence, problems that brutally affect life in your society also.
We hope that the dialogue begun here will be a step on the way to victory in this struggle.
KOS, Warsaw, June 11, 1985
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Resistance (KOS) to the Prague Appeal. This organisation produces a weekly journal, Kos (blackbird), which has a circulation of approximately 20,000 copies. This makes it one of the major publications of the underground movement. Although not calling itself socialist, it is seen as representing a left current. One could say that it constitutes the right wing of the Polish left. KOS was the first Polish
Resistance (KOS) to the Prague Appeal. This organisation produces a weekly journal, Kos (blackbird), which has a circulation of approximately 20,000 copies. This makes it one of the major publications of the underground movement. Although not calling itself socialist, it is seen as representing a left current. One could say that it constitutes the right wing of the Polish left. KOS was the first Polish