
Thank you all for signing the petition. We want to update that there are number of world dignitaries and notable persons that have signed and endorsed this petition campaigning for recognition of the NUG in the United Nations General Assembly.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Frederik Willem de Klerk, former President of the Republic of South Africa;
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta, former President of Timor-Leste (East Timor), and the Chairperson of the World Movement for Democracy;
His Excellency Derek Mitchell, former US ambassador to Burma;
His Excellency Jiří Šitler, former Czech Republic Ambassador to Myanmar and Thailand;
Ms. Laurence Fehlmann Rielle, member of the National Council of Switzerland and the President of the Swiss-Burmese Association;
Senator Mr. Pavel Fisher, the Chairman of the International Relations, Defence and Security Committee of the Czech Republic Senate;
Ms. Ana Gomes, Portuguese politician, former diplomat, former Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the European Parliament Election Observation Delegation for the General Elections in Myanmar (2015);
Ms. Vesna Pusić, former Vice President of the Government of the Republic of Croatia and former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Croatia;
Mr. Irwin Cotler, Chair of The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, former Minister of Justice Canada, and former Attorney General of Canada;
Mr Antoine Bernard, Director for Advocacy and Strategic Litigation at Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Senior Fellow with the Institute on Advanced Judicial Studies (IHEJ).