Shushkevich proposed for Nobel Prize nomination

• 19.07.2010, 14:05

Former President of Poland Lech Walesa proposes to nominate ex-Chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus Stanislau Shushkevich for the Nobel Prize.

DELFI news agency learnt this from Uladz Kobets, a coordinator of the European Belarus civil campaign.

“This is not news, because a question of nominating Stanislau Shushkevich for the Nobel Prize has been raised for several yeas,” Kobets tells. “The main initiator is Lech Walesa, a former President of Poland and Nobel Prize Winner. This subject has been discussed and is being discussion now. It was also touched on at the regional NGO forum held in Vilnius in June.

According to Kobets, Shushkevich’s merits are well-known. “His main merit is removing tactical and strategic nuclear weapons from Belarus,” he continues. “He himself considered this fact the main thing in his life. For these actions Shushkevich was given the Dove of Peace Award in Poland in 2008.”

Besides, the among Shushkevich’s merits is the meeting of heads of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus on December 1991 and signing the Belavezha Accords, thus securing peaceful USSR dissolution without turmoil and conflicts.”

“It was Shushkevich who made a significant contribution into the peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union and independence of all our states,” he believes. “Of course, he had lot of other merits. So, among Belarusian politicians and public figures, Shushkevich is the only worthy of giving the Nobel Prize to.”