EPS statement: The EPS condemns the continuing attacks by the Russian Federation against Ukraine
Thursday 3 March 2022
Statement by the Executive Committee of the European Physical Society
26 February 2022 The
European Physical Society (EPS) strongly condemns the continuing
attacks by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, an independent and
sovereign country. In clear violation of international law, the
Russian government's decision will have drastic and negative
consequences that are difficult to foresee, including on the development
of the scientific cooperation between Eastern and Western European
nations. The values of the EPS are based on the free exchange
and free expression of ideas and concepts in physics that nourish the
development of our civilisation, and thereby contribute to the advance
of humanity. A country that invades its peaceful neighbour and threatens the other nations clearly violates these fundamental principles. Therefore,
the EPS calls on the entire scientific community and all citizens
working in physics and beyond, to be uncompromising in their protest and
to take active measures against the ongoing violence of the Russian
army in Ukraine. Today, the EPS expresses its deepest solidarity
with the suffering Ukrainian people who find themselves in an unwanted
and tragic situation in which not only their basic freedoms but also
their very lives are threatened by the armed intervention of a foreign
army. The Ukrainian Physical Society is a Member Society of the EPS and,
as such, the EPS will do everything in its power to help to ensure the
continuity of its cooperation with Ukrainian physicists.
Today,
the EPS also sympathizes with the Russian physicists who refute the
aggression of their government and suffer similarly from not being able
to freely express their disagreement in their own homeland. Today,
in solidarity with our Ukrainian and Russian colleagues, the EPS
suspends all joint actions co-sponsored with the Russian State for the
time being. Further measures to be undertaken will be considered and
acted by the next EPS Council in June 2022 in Paris, as the situation
dictates. Today, despite the dreadful and extremely dangerous
crisis that the European continent is going through, the EPS firmly
believes in a better future for tomorrow. On behalf of the Executive Committee of the European Physical Society, Luc Bergé,
President
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