European Intellectuals Issue Open Letter Calling for Assistance to Armenia and Artsakh

European intellectuals have called on their governments to provide immediate and concrete assistance to the thousands of innocent citizens living in Armenia and Artsakh, considering the looming danger. According to a report from Baghramyan 26, the open letter states:

“We, the humanists who have signed this petition, who cherish moral values and universal principles such as freedom, justice, and tolerance, appeal to the governments of our enlightened democratic countries to effectively and without delay provide concrete assistance to the thousands of innocent citizens living in Armenia and Artsakh, in light of the imminent danger. In the face of tragedy, here and now, we urge the awakening of our conscience; this is a moral imperative in the form of humanitarian assistance, a noble and just act that extends not only to the survival of the Armenian people in Artsakh but also to our own civilization.”

The list of signatories includes:

• Daniel Salvatore Schiffer – philosopher, writer
• Marc Alpozzo – philosopher, essayist
• Elizabeth Badinter – philosopher
• Dominique Bachelet – philosopher, art historian
• Stéphane Barsac – writer
• Florence Belkacem – writer, journalist
• Veronique Bergen – philosopher, writer
• Marie-Jo Bonnet – historian
• Jeanette Bougrab – essayist, lawyer, former French Secretary of Youth and Public Affairs
• Jean-Marie Brom – sociologist, honorary professor (Paris)
• Belinda Canonne – writer
• Sophie Chaveau – writer
• André Comte-Sponville – philosopher
• Sara Daniel – journalist
• Jean-Philippe Domecq – writer, novelist, essayist
• Luc Ferry – philosopher, former Minister of National Education and Youth of France
• René Frégosi – philosopher, political scientist
• Christian Godin – philosopher
• Nathalie Heinich – sociologist
• Dominique Jamet – journalist, writer
• Jacques Julliard – historian, essayist, journalist
• François Kasbi – writer, journalist
• Arno Klarsfeld – lawyer
• Jean-Paul Lévy – honorary lawyer
• Isabelle de MacMahon – philosopher, council member
• Edgar Morin – sociologist, philosopher
• Bruno Moisan – musicologist
• Veronique Nachum-Grappe – anthropologist, researcher in social sciences
• Yves Namur – writer, permanent secretary of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium
• Eric Naulleau – writer, essayist
• Fabien Ollier – director of QS publications and Quel Sport magazine
• Michel Perrin – historian, honorary professor at Paris Diderot University
• Leticia Petit – psychoanalyst
• Sabina Prokhoris – philosopher, psychoanalyst
• Christian Rans – writer
• Robert Redeker – philosopher
• Boualem Sansal – writer
• Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt – writer, playwright
• Dominique Schnapper – sociologist, scientific director of the EHESS, honorary member of the Constitutional Council (France)
• Enni Suger – president of the International League for Women's Rights (LDIF)
• Pierre-André Taguieff – philosopher, political scientist, historian, research director at CNRS
• Valérie Toranian – journalist, editor-in-chief
• Valérie Trierweiler – journalist, writer
• Maral Ulubyan – philosopher
• Patrick Vassort – sociologist, publisher of Illusio magazine
• Jean-Claude Silberstein – lawyer, publisher, writer