Nobel Laureates Call for Peace Summit
Seven Nobel Peace Prize winners on Friday called on world leaders to meet in Sarajevo with the warring sides to try to end the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The petition was made public in the Costa Rican capital by former President Oscar Arias Sanchez, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to bring peace to Central America.
A summit in the heart of the former Yugoslav federation “constitutes a realistic option to a conflict that threatens to spill over its borders . . . and become a danger for peace and security in the entire world,” the letter said.
The letter also was signed by fellow peace laureates South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, 1984; Betty Williams and Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland, co-winners in 1976; Kara Newell, executive director of American Friends Service Committee, which won in 1947; Romanian-American writer Elie Wiesel, 1986, and Argentine human rights advocate Adolfo Perez Esquivel, 1980.
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