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Welcome, Jan. Thank you so much for joining.

Thank you for inviting me.

Of course. So you issued an appeal for peace against the war.

You did this from the Czech Republic.

I wanted to know why you did that and what your thoughts are on the war,

both how it started but also how it can be stopped.

Yeah, to put it in a context.

Only this year, in January, with several colleagues of mine,

we set up a peace initiative called Peace and Justice.

So in the name of this initiative, we made an appeal

to our government, but also other governments to stop sending arms to Ukraine,

because we believe that sending weapons only prolonged the war.

And we asked in this appeal for an immediate ceasefire and opening of these negotiations,

diplomatic solution. Obviously, it's a controversial issue and we are aware

of the very beginning that many people will disagree in particular with the issue of ceasefire,

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