March 22, 2008 - Press release
Abolition 2000-Europe General Assembly
Posted by Abolition, 18th Apr 2008
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Category: Events
Friday, 2nd May 2008, 3:00-5:00 pm
NGO room, United Nation, Geneva (More)
The European Union and the Nuclear Weapon Convention, meeting during NPT PrepCom, Geneva, 28th April 2008
Posted by Abolition, 12th Apr 2008
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Category: Nuclear non-proliferation Treaty
During the meeting of the NPT Preparatory Committee
(28 April - 9 May 2008 at the UN in Geneva), Abolition 2000 Europe and Mayors
for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign organise a conference on "The European Union and the Nuclear Weapon Convention".
When: 1:15-2:45pm
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Monday, 28 April 2008
Where: NGO room
Contact: Dominique Lalanne, Abolition 2000-Europe; co-sponsored by Mayors
for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign
e-mail : lalanne@lal.in2p3.fr
Website: www.abolition2000europe.org
Bye-Bye Nuclear Bombs: 25 - 30 August 2008, Civil Disobedience Camp at B?chel, Germany
Posted by Abolition, 31st Mar 2008
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Category: Events
From 25th to 30th August 2008, GAAA (Non-Violent Action for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons) organises a civil disobedience camp at B?chel nuclear weapons base, together with local activists from Initiative Circle against Nuclear Weapons. Following 7 years of public actions, calling on the soldiers in the base to refuse to follow illegal orders, and resist the deployment of nuclear weapons, the action will this year take the form of a civil inspection of the base, where people will enter without permission to disrupt the working of the base.
Website: http://bye-bye-nuclear-bombs.gaaa.org
More info in English: http://bye-bye-nuclear-bombs.gaaa.org/info-en.pdf
1000 participants and 500 arrests at international action day NATO GAME OVER
Posted by Abolition, 22nd Mar 2008
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Category: Nuclear Weapon News
About 1000 people from 17 European countries went to the NATO headquarters in Brussels this morning to take part in the international non violent action NATO GAME OVER. 5 years after the start of the Iraq war and 10 days before the Bucharest NATO summit, peace activists from all over Europe show that preventing war starts here in Europe.
Nuclear Weapons in Europe poster
Posted by Abolition, 7th Mar 2008
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Category: Action/Campaign News
The European Youth Network BANg and the German
project "Nuclear Weapons Politics: Learn - Experience - Participate", have
produced the educational poster "Nuclear Weapons
in Europe" for schools and workshops, which can now be ordered!
The A2
poster with loads of introductory information on the backside is available
in English and German.
Please go to www.atomwaffenlernen.info/inhalt/bestellung.htm to
order your copy.
Those of you in the UK can
also get in touch with Emily Freeman (emfreeman@hotmail.co.uk), as she will
have English copies to distribute there.
And please help to spread the word
about it!
SNP group aims to dump Trident, Government experts examine ways to block system.
Posted by Abolition, 17th Feb 2008
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Category: Nuclear Weapon News
The Scottish government has set up an expert group to investigate
how best to get rid of nuclear weapons, the Sunday Herald can
reveal.
The group, to be chaired by Bruce Crawford MSP, the minister for
parliamentary business, is seen by many as a crucial step towards making
Scotland a nuclear-free nation - and could trigger a confrontation with
Westminster.
The group - which includes religious leaders, academics, activists, a
lawyer and a trade unionist - has been given the task of finding legal,
planning, regulatory and diplomatic ways to block the plan to replace the
Trident nuclear weapons system on the Clyde.
(From: The Sunday Herald)
(More)German Foreign Affairs minister Steinmeier on nuclear disarmament
Posted by Abolition, 9th Feb 2008
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Category: Nuclear Weapon News
The following speech at the Munich Security Conference by the German
minister of Foreign Affairs Steinmeier is a clear appeal to put
disarmament again on the NATO agenda and follows his initiative
together with the Norwegian minister at the NATO summit in December.
It is a quite positive sign, but it was a lone voice between the
wolves. The debate is anyway going on inside NATO and it is up to us to
create pressure to support this initiative. Please make sure that in as
much parliaments as possible of NATO countries questions get tabled on
how your government reacts to this intiative.
Step to a nuclear free world: Study and Action at the NPT PrepCom, Geneva
Posted by Abolition, 25th Jan 2008
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Category: Nuclear non-proliferation Treaty
2nd Preparatory Committee for the 2010
Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation-Treaty (NPT Prep Com) at the United Nations in Geneva
25th April to 4th May 2008
Invitation:
BANg is a European youth network. It was founded after the
failure of the NPT Conference in 2005
Youth delegations have been participating in the last three
confer-ences in New York 2004 and 2005, as well as in Vienna 2007. Our
aim is to raise awareness of the nuclear issue because nukes endanger
our future.
We want to invite all youth to come to the NPT Prep Com and take part
in our study and action trip to Geneva.
Register now online!
Toward a Nuclear-Free World, By GEORGE P. SHULTZ, WILLIAM J. PERRY, HENRY A. KISSINGER and SAM NUNN
Posted by Abolition, 15th Jan 2008
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Category: Nuclear Weapon News
By GEORGE P. SHULTZ, WILLIAM J. PERRY, HENRY A.
KISSINGER and SAM NUNN
January 15, 2008
The accelerating spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how and nuclear material has brought us to a nuclear tipping point. We face a very real possibility that the deadliest weapons ever invented could fall into dangerous hands.
The steps we are taking now to address these threats are not adequate to the danger. With nuclear weapons more widely available, deterrence is decreasingly effective and increasingly hazardous.
(From: The Wall Street Journal) (More)
Over half of Belgian Mayors demand elimination of nuclear weapons before 2020
Posted by Abolition, 10th Jan 2008
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Category: Nuclear Weapon News
Today over half of a total of 589 Belgian Mayors demand a worldwide ban of nuclear weapons before 2020. In the northern region of Flanders this is almost 70%. Remarkable is that in the Flemish province of Limburg counts the highest number of members with 75%. This is the province where the US deploys an estimated 20 nuclear bombs on the airforce base of Kleine Brogel and confirms the growing democratic deficit with regard to NATO nuclear policies. (More)
Fix the Proposal for Nuclear Cooperation with India, Letter to Nuclear Suppliers Group and IAEA
Posted by Abolition, 7th Jan 2008
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Category: Nuclear Weapon News
Dear Minister :
In the coming weeks the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors will likely be asked to consider a new ?India-specific? safeguards agreement that would cover a limited number of additional ?civilian? reactors. Shortly thereafter, the members of the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) will be asked to take a position on the Bush administration?s proposal to exempt India from longstanding NSG guidelines that require full-scope IAEA safeguards as a condition of supply.
(More)Germany and Norway call for NATO disarmament initiative
Posted by Abolition, 7th Jan 2008
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Category: Nuclear Weapon News
German Foreign Minister Steinmeier and his Norwegian counterpart St?re have called on NATO countries to do more for disarmament. This call comes at a time when important international control regimes such as the CFE Treaty and the Non-Proliferation Treaty are at risk of coming unravelled. The Ministers discussed the proposal Friday (7 December) in Brussels with the other NATO Foreign Ministers. The goal is to identify areas in which NATO can better define its profile on disarmament, arms control and nuclear non-proliferation.
(From: Auswaertiges Amt)
(More)European mayors want withdrawal of US nukes from their territory
Posted by Abolition, 7th Dec 2007
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Category: Nuclear Weapon News
European mayors want withdrawal of US nukes from their territory(More)
and 1,937 Mayors demand global elimination of nuclear weapons by 2020
Brussels, December 6th 2007 - European Mayors on whose territory US nuclear
weapons are deployed demand, in a remarkable common position paper, THE
withdrawAL OF the remaining US nuclear weapons from their municipalites. The
Mayors from Peer (Kleine Brogel - Belgium), Aviano and Ghedi (Italy), Uden
(Volkel - The Netherlands), Incirlik (Turkey), and Buechel (Germany) receive
support for their appeal from the Executive Cities of the Mayors for Peace,
including the Mayors of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Florence, Manchester, and
Hannover.
Belgian Christian Democrats demanded withdrawal of US nukes in government negotiations
Posted by Abolition, 16th Nov 2007
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Category: Nuclear Weapon News
So even when this gave no result, it is important to see that the change in position by the CD&V was real and not just election talk. It means that CD&V sees the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons as a realistic aim and that important steps are possible in the coming term. CD&V is the most atlantist party in the Belgian political landscape with a lot of connections in the Belgian diplomacy. Both the current NATO-ambassador and the diplomat dealing with non-proliferation and disarmament issues are known as christian democrats, even when the former government was one without christian democrats.
The proposal for the government agreement (based on the earlier parlementary resolutions):
- to propose initiatives in NATO concerning the review of strategic doctrines and the gradual withdrawal of the American tactical nuclear weapons from Europe as fulfillment of Article 6 of the NPT (my unofficial translation).
Dutch original:
- bij de NAVO initiatieven ter sprake te brengen in verband met de herziening van de strategische doctrines en de graduele terugtrekking van de Amerikaanse tactische kernwapens uit Europa met het oog op het realiseren van artikel 6 van het NPT.
Meanwhile the negotiations for a new government have led to a deadlock. It is at the moment unclear how the negotiations will continue and which parties in the end will form the government.
Scotland seeks world backing for banning nuclear weapons
Posted by Abolition, 21st Oct 2007
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Category: Nuclear Weapon News
Alex Salmond has made a major bid to win international backing for his government's campaign to rid Scotland of nuclear weapons, the Sunday Herald can reveal.
The First Minister has written to 122 countries highlighting the nation's opposition to the deployment of Trident nuclear warheads on the Clyde, and his determination to try and block the UK government's decision to replace Trident over the next few decades.
Salmond is also asking countries to support a request for Scotland to be given observer status at future meetings of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the world's main barrier to nuclear mayhem.
(from Sunday Herald, 21 October 2007)
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