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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I concur with Bob.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> CODATA-international [mailto:codata-international-bounces@lists.codata.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Chen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 2, 2022 6:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> codata-international@lists.codata.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CODATA-international] CODATA Statement on the War in Ukraine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Same for me, another past Secretary General (who helped organize the 2008 CODATA Conference and General Assembly in Kiev). We very much hope that all data scientists, experts, and students in the Ukraine, and their colleagues and families, remain safe, and
that this terrible situation ends soon. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Bob Chen<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 10:18 AM Asha CODATA <<a href="mailto:asha@codata.org">asha@codata.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans ,Arial,sans-serif",serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><img border="0" width="593" height="261" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CDT_logo-sub_blue@3x-100-1024x451.jpg">CODATA
joins with our parent body, the </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans ,Arial,sans-serif",serif;color:#666666"><a href="https://council.science/current/news/isc-statement-ukraine/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">International
Science Council</span></a><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> (ISC), with </span><a href="https://council.science/statements-international-scientific-community-conflict-ukraine/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">other
partners, including ISC members</span></a><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">, in stating its deep dismay and concerns about the military operations being carried out in Ukraine and the resulting humanitarian crisis.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans ,Arial,sans-serif",serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">As the Committee on Data of the ISC, we call for the respect for international humanitarian law, and the preservation of scientific
institutions and their valuable data resources. Most of all, we demand that the safety and well-being of our fellow scientists, data experts and colleagues be maintained.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans ,Arial,sans-serif",serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans ,Arial,sans-serif",serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Ukraine and Russia are both members of CODATA, and we work closely with many dear colleagues and friends at scientific and
data institutes in both countries. Kyiv, now under attack, hosted the 2008 CODATA Conference and is the location of our partner organisations, the </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans ,Arial,sans-serif",serif;color:#666666"><a href="http://wdc.org.ua/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">World
Data Centre for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development</span></a><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">, the </span><a href="https://kpi.ua/en" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Igor Sikorsky
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute</span></a><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> and the </span><a href="https://www.nas.gov.ua/EN/pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine</span></a><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">. Many colleagues from these institutes, colleagues who have attended CODATA conferences and workshops, and young scientist alumni of our training activities, remain
in Kyiv and are in danger. These women and men are our scientific colleagues, our partners in advancing the science of data and our friends in global collaborative work to use data better. Their freedom to pursue their scientific and human activities and their
safety is paramount. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans ,Arial,sans-serif",serif;color:#666666"><a href="https://codata.org/about-codata/our-mission/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">CODATA’s mission</span></a><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> is
to connect data and people to advance science and improve our world. We exist to bring scientists and data experts together to share knowledge and to collaborate across borders. Our origins lie in the bold and determined actions of scientists reaching across
the Cold War divides in the great data gathering exercises of the International Geophysical Year of 1958, and subsequent concerted efforts to gather fundamental reference data in a host of research domains. We will continue to work in this spirit with all
our colleagues. As stated by ISC we are “committed to continue advancing the equal participation and collaboration between scientists in all countries in its activities and the principle of the free and responsible practice of science which is enshrined in
its </span><a href="https://council.science/what-we-do/freedoms-and-responsibilities-of-scientists/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">statutes</span></a><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">”.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans ,Arial,sans-serif",serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">The Officers, Executive Committee and Secretariat of CODATA are united in their wish for a peaceful resolution and are committed
to the internationalism and collaboration that has been a notable feature of CODATA’s history.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans ,Arial,sans-serif",serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans ,Arial,sans-serif",serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">CODATA Officers and Executive Committee, 2 March 2022</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans ,Arial,sans-serif",serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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