DRAFT ONLY / COMMENTS WELCOME
Nullification of Resolutions on Pan-European Observance of August 23rd
WHEREAS the right of individual member states to establish in law and practice the observance of August 23rd or any other date, as a day for the commemoration of Nazi and Soviet victims, and indeed victims of any and all evils, is duly acknowledged, we now reject such legislation intended for the whole of the European Union,
OBSERVING (a) ‘Text Adopted’ of 23 September 2008 on ‘European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism’ and (b) point no. 15 in the ‘Texts adopted’ of 2 April 2009 on ‘European Conscience and Totalitarianism’; and moreover
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that these two Texts Adopted were voted on (a) before it became a public issue wherein many people of good conscience, including accredited diplomats of EU member states and Holocaust Survivors, express the view that aspects of the effort are inherently liable to extensive abuse by Holocaust Obfuscation tendencies, and on occasion racist and antisemitic forces in certain circles, causing great pain to Holocaust Survivors and their families, and to vulnerable minorities in contemporary European society; (b) before the January 2010 Montero Report and the 22 December 2010 negative reply by the European Commission, both of which have determined empirically that there is no consensus among states on these matters, leaving decisions to the democratic institutions of each state; we do therefore
HEREBY REJECT ANY EFFORT TO IMPOSE OR COMMEND AUGUST 23rd, or any other date concerning the commemoration of totalitarian regimes, upon the member states of the European Union or its central institutions, and give notice that the above-referenced resolutions of 23 September 2008 and 2 April 2009 are in our view null and void.
DRAFT OF 6 MARCH 2011