Tag: Mistral

Representatives of the Foundation follow and attend the most important sessions and meetings of the international organizations and institutions in Brussels, Strasbourg, Vienna and Geneva.

On 31st October, we protested against the supply by France of Mistral assault ships to Russia. The manifestation was held at the Polish Ministry of Defence (MON) on Klonowa Street in Warsaw.

On 31st October, we protested against the supply by France of Mistral assault ships to Russia. The manifestation was held at the Polish Ministry of Defence (MON) on Klonowa Street in Warsaw.

On September 3, the Élysée Palace issued a statement in which it suspended the delivery of the first of two Mistral assault ships ordered by Russia, explaining this decision with the situation in Ukraine.

At 1 p.m., on the 7th September, a global protest is to be held against the sale of Mistral ships to Russia by France.

According to the french press, members of the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposed this week that the European Union or NATO could buy two Mistral warships which are designed for Russia.

After the MH17 plane crash, France faced severe criticism from the West.

On the initiative of the Open Dialogue Foundation and the EuroMaidan organisation, a leaflet action ‘Stop the Mistral deal’ was held in Warsaw on 13 July, 2014.

Yehor Sobolev, accompanied by representatives of the Open Dialogue Foundation – Lyudmyla Kozlovska, Anastasia Khorna and Anne Souléliac, met with French MPs, officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ukrainian community in Paris, where he talked about lustration in Ukraine.

The Internet portal wpolityce.pl published information on the protest organised at the French embassy by the Open Dialogue Foundation and Euromaidan Warsaw.

The Open Dialogue Foundation, an organisation which defends human rights and supports democratic processes in post-Soviet countries, hereby expresses its utmost concern over the 2011 contract signed by France for the sale of two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships (BPCs) to the Russian Navy.

The Open Dialogue Foundation, together with the EuroMaidan Warsaw organisation, organised a picket in front of the French Embassy in Warsaw on Tuesday (20.05).

The Ukrainian information portal Pravda described the protest of the Open Dialogue Foundation and EuroMaidan Warsaw against the sale to Russia of French Mistral landing ships.