text: We, the ROMÂNIA VIE Society, a Romanian NGO born and shaped within the Bucharest, University Square Movements of 2012-2013, are more and more worried about the foreign inspired aggression to which the Eastern neighbour of our country, Ukraine, is subjected since the downfall of the former President, Mr. Viktor Ianukovitch. We consider that the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by the Russian Federation and the pro-Russian armed rebellion ongoing in the Eastern and Southern regions of the country represent unacceptable actions, reminding too much of the events which preceded the beginning of World War II.
  Also, these events are even more disturbing as they are taking place in the same part of the world were the Romanian States, Romania and the Republic of Moldova, are located. Let us not forget that Romania and the Principalities who preceded our country’s modern existence were more then one time subjected to Russian and Soviet imperialism, and that the Republic of Moldova underwent processes quite similar to what is happening now in Ukraine immediately after this republic declared her independence in 1991-1992, with a certain risk for the existing frozen conflicts to be reactivated.
  As appalled as we are of the general humanitarian risk posed by the developing crisis, we cannot forget that there are roughly 500,000 ethnic Romanians living in Ukraine, many of them in some administrative regions directly threatened by the spread of the hostilities between the Ukrainian Army and Police and the Pro-Russian separatists, and potentially the Russian Army itself: Odessa, Mikolaiv, Herson, Kirovograd and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
  Therefore there is need for a more decisive action to end the aggression against Ukraine and let the peoples of the Ukraine to freely decide their future.
  We appeal to you especially by the means of the current opened letter because in 1994 your honourable countries signed the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, guaranteeing to Ukraine to respect and protect the sovereignty and the territorial integrity against any foreign aggression, and in return Ukraine renounced to her status inherited from the former Soviet Union as a nuclear power, and by 1996 transferred all her nuclear weapons to the Russian Federation to be dismantled.
  Until now, with the symbolic sanctions introduced against certain Russian and Ukrainian subjects, we cannot say your countries fulfilled their obligations. This is worrying not only from the perspective of the trustworthiness of your governments in keeping their international undertakings, but also in the perspective of future nuclear demilitarisation. Which country who currently possesses nuclear weapons or is on the brink of developing such weapons will give them up in the future against American and British security guarantees after the Ukrainian precedent?
  We also appeal to your countries as senior partners in NATO, an alliance to which Romania is also belonging. Right now we have doubts that in the case Romania will be attacked not by a medium size country, such as Iran, but by a power such as the Russian Federation, NATO will act in accordance with article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
  We end by specifying that our organisation has as purpose the protection of the human rights, of the environment and the cultural, archaeological, historical and fossil heritage, the promotion of civic, cultural and ecologic causes, the reformation of the Romanian society, suggesting public policies regarding all the previously mentioned issues.