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Joint Project of
Association of World Citizens
and
Friends of the Earth Anti-Nuclear Weapons Campaign"TAKE
NUCLEAR WEAPONS OFF ALERT STATUS"
A PLEA BY NOBEL LAUREATES,
PARALIAMENTARINS,
THE EUROPARLIAMENT, AND NGOS AROUND THE WORLD
32 Nobel Laureates and 237 organizations
and parliamentarians from around the world have signed a Statement
of Endorsement that calls for removing all strategic nuclear
weapons from "hair-trigger alert and "Launch on Warning"
status. In addition the Statement has been endorsed by the European
Parliament and by the Australian Senate.
The Statement is being released
in the warm-up to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Review Conference
in New York May 2-29 and is aimed at raising the profile of the
issue of nuclear weapons operating status at that review.
Of the 32 Nobel Laureates signing
the Statement, eight are Peace Laureates, including the Dalai
Lama, Jose Ramos Horta, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Mairead Corrigan
Maquire, Joseph Rotblat, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Oscar Arias
Sanchez, and Betty Williams. In addition, the International Peace
Bureau and IPPNW, that have received the Nobel Peace Prize, also
endorsed the Statement.
A total of 53 parliamentarians
have signed the Statement from the UK, Australia, New Zealand,
Canada, Russia, Belgium, Germany, Brazil, U.S.A., and Italy.
The appeal was endorsed in motions
concerning the Nuclear Nonproliferation Review Conference on
march 10th by both the European Parliament and the Australian
Senate.
This project was initiated and
is coordinated by the Association of World Citizens in San Francisco
and by Friends of the Earth Australia in Sydney, with assistance
from many other groups worldwide including Abolition-2000, the
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA),
Mayors for Peace, and the War & Peace Foundation.
In spite of significant reductions
in the number of nuclear warheads held by the U.S. and Russia
from 1990 onwards, both countries maintain thousands of warheads
on 'launch on warning' and 'hair-trigger" alert status to
this day and will continue to do so, in spite of the Moscow Treaty,
through 2012.
A recent report by the RAND corporation
reported that the 4,000 U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear warheads
on hair-trigger alert could be launched in a few minutes notice
destroying both countries in an hour.
A number of terrifying 'near
misses' to nuclear war have taken place, both during and after
the end of the Cold War, in which the fate of civilization has
depended on correct decision-making by highly stressed military
personnel or on presidents whose sobriety has sometimes been
questionable.
Moreover, the nuclear danger
has accelerated with the acquisition of nuclear weapons by India
and Pakistan, and the evolution of centralized command and control
systems in those countries. The subcontinent is moving toward
a highly dangerous 'hair trigger' status.
Taking nuclear weapons systems
off hair-trigger alert has been called for repeatedly by the
European Parliament, the UN General Assembly, and was a key recommendation
of the Canberra Commission in 1996, and of the Atlanta Consultation,
chaired by President Carter in January of 2005.
Removing strategic nuclear weapons
from launch on warning status is seen by the Canberra Commission
and the Atlanta Consultation as a first step toward the elimination
of nuclear arsenals worldwide, as required by article VI of the
NPT. The issue of removing nuclear weapons from "hair-trigger"
alert underlines the necessity of ceasing to play Russian (or
American, or Indian or Pakistani) roulette with the entire world.
Our Statement calling for the
elimination of hair-trigger policy will be released in Melbourne,
Geneva, Hiroshima, San Francisco, New York (at the UN), and London
on April 5th.
This project was initiated from
the World Citizen Award presented to Stanislav Petrov in Moscow
on 21 May 2004 by the Association of World Citizens. Petrov is
credited by many arms experts as probably saving the world from
nuclear war though his singular decision when in charge of an
early-warning bunker outside of Moscow on September 26, 1983,
when the system indicated the Soviet Union was under a missile
attack by the United States.
Attached:
The Statement of Endorsement
The resolution "Operational Status of Nuclear Weapons"
that was endorsed
The list of endorsers
Article on Stanislav Petrov
STATEMENT OF ENDORSEMENT
For the resolutions "Operational
Status of Nuclear Weapons"
The Distinguished individuals
and organizations below make the following appeal concerning
nuclear weapons, and the danger posed by the maintenance of thousands
of nuclear warheads and delivery systems on launch-on-warning
status.
We call on the governments of
the United States, Russia, China, France, and the UK, India,
Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea, to support and implement steps
to lower the operational status of nuclear weapon systems in
order to reduce the risk of nuclear catastrophe and as part of
their obligations, affirmed by the International Court of Justice,
to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons under strict and
effective international control.
We note that:
1) To this day, thousands of
nuclear weapons in the US and Russia are on Launch-on-warning
status, and that the megatonnage involved remains more than enough
to destroy civilization and perhaps the human race.
2) That the Indian subcontinent
is increasingly on a 'hair-trigger' status.
3) That there have been numerous
incidents in which a nuclear exchange involving thousands of
warheads could have taken place, and in which the fate of the
earth has depended on the correct judgment of a single individual.
4) That the US, Russia, China,
France, and the UK have failed so far to make further progress
to achieve the total and unequivocal elimination of their nuclear
arsenals, as called for under international law.
5) That, in addition to the failure
of the 'official' nuclear weapons powers to fulfill their treaty
obligations, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea also posses
nuclear weapons, and that the risk of their use is very real.
6) That a number of calls have
been made by the UN General Assembly and by the European Parliament
to lower the operational status of nuclear weapons.
Accordingly we call on the governments
of the United States, Russia, China, France and the UK, India,
Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea, to:
a) Take immediate steps to lower
the operational status of nuclear weapons, and to revise nuclear
doctrines, policies and postures to reflect such lowered operational
status.
b) To implement in good faith
their obligations under international law, to accomplish the
total and unequivocal elimination of their nuclear arsenals.
c) To implement the steps toward
nuclear disarmament outlined in the '13 steps' of the final declaration
of the Year 2000 NPT Review Conference.
d) We call on non- nuclear nations
to press for nuclear disarmament in every available international
forum especially including the United Nations General Assembly
First Committee and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
e) We call on legislators worldwide
to pass resolutions in national and other parliaments pressing
for the lowering of the operational status of nuclear weapons
and for nuclear disarmament as mandated by international law.
We draw the attention of legislators
and diplomats to the two texts below:
i) A model for a resolution in
the UN General Assembly calling for the lowering of the operational
status of nuclear weapons (Note that in the process of getting
it through the GA First Committee it may experience some alterations
in text)
ii) Motion passed by the Australian
Senate congratulating Colonel Stanislav Petrov on preventing
nuclear war during the Serpukhov 15 incident of Sept 26 1983,
and calling for the lowering of the operational status of nuclear
weapons.
You are invited to endorse the
statement above calling for the lowering of the operational status
of nuclear weapons systems, and to give your support to measures
such as the texts below.
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Operational Status of Nuclear
Weapons
Addressed to the United Nations
General Assembly, the Non Proliferation Treaty Review Conference,
and to all nuclear weapons states
Convinced that the possible use
of nuclear weapons poses the most serious threat to humanity
and to the survival of civilization,
Convinced also that the maintenance
of nuclear weapons systems at a high level of readiness-to-use
increases the risks of unintentional or accidental use of such
weapons which would have catastrophic consequences,
Noting that a high level of nuclear
weapons readiness-to-use has contributed to a number of circumstances
when nuclear weapons have become very close to being used,
Welcoming steps taken by States
possessing nuclear weapons to reduce nuclear risks and prevent
nuclear war,
Welcoming particularly the agreement
by Russia and the United States of America on the Establishment
of the Joint Centre for the Exchange of Data from Early Warning
Systems and Notification of Missile Launches, but noting that
the agreement has not yet been implemented,
Considering that, until nuclear
weapons are eliminated, it is imperative that further steps be
taken to prevent the accidental, unauthorized or unintentional
use of nuclear weapons,
Expressing its deep concern that thousands of strategic warheads
remain on Launch-On-Warning status,
Expressing its concern also about
emerging approaches to the broader role of nuclear weapons as
part of security strategies, including rationalizations for the
use, and the possible development, of new types of nuclear weapons,
Recalling the program of action
agreed at the 2000 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference,
which called for concrete agreed measures to further reduce the
operational status of nuclear weapons systems
Recalling resolutions [specify
resolution numbers] on the floor of this assembly have called
for reductions in the operational status of nuclear weapons,
Mindful that concrete steps to
reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons systems will
help reduce tensions, build confidence and support negotiations
leading to the elimination of nuclear weapons,
1. Calls for a review of nuclear
doctrines emphasizing concrete steps to reduce the operational
status of nuclear weapons,
2. Encourages States to immediately
implement unilateral steps including, inter alia, the rescinding
of launch-on-warning policies, and to urgently conclude negotiated
steps, pending agreements for the complete elimination of nuclear
weapons,
3. Calls on all States possessing
nuclear weapons to undertake not to increase the number or types
of weapons deployed and not to develop new types of weapons or
rationalizations for their use,
4. Calls for further confidence
building and transparency measures to reduce the threats posed
by nuclear weapons,
5. Requests States possessing
nuclear weapons to report to the 60th session on steps they have
taken to implement this resolution
6. Decides to include in the
provisional agenda of its 60th session the item entitled "Operational
status of nuclear weapons."
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ii) Motion passed by Australian Senate 23 June 2004 congratulating
Colonel Stanislav Petrov
FOREIGN AFFAIRS-NUCLEAR WEAPON
SYSTEMS-COLONEL STANISLAV PETROV
Senator Allison amended general
business notice of motion no. 895 by leave and, pursuant to notice
of motion not objected to as a formal motion, moved-That the
Senate-
(a) recalls the incident that
took place in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
at Serpukhov-15 on 26 September 1983 at 12.30 pm Moscow time,
and the role of Colonel Stanislav Petrov in this incident;
(b) notes:
(i) That the Serpukhov-15 incident,
in which a newly installed Soviet surveillance system reported
that the United States of America (US) had launched nuclear missiles
at the USSR, is considered by many analysts to have been the
closest the world has ever come to nuclear war,
(ii) that the megatonnage that
was likely to have been used at that time was between 30 and
60 times the amount required to produce a nuclear winter, and
that the number of nuclear weapons that would have been launched
would have been enough to end civilization and kill most living
things,
(iii) the role played by Colonel
Petrov in refraining from launching a number of thousands of
warheads at the US in retaliation and in pressing his superiors
to consider the report a false alarm,
(iv) That the Canberra Commission
of 1996 recommended that strategic nuclear weapons be taken off
`Launch on Warning' status, and
(v) the resolution of the European
Parliament of 18 November 1999, and the Senate's own resolutions
as well as repeated calls to lower the alert status of strategic
nuclear weapons made by the Non-Aligned Movement and the New
Agenda Coalition that have been passed year after year by the
United Nations (UN) General Assembly;
(b) offers its congratulations
to Colonel Petrov for being presented with the World Citizen
Award on Friday, 21 May 2004, in recognition of his actions;
and
(c) urges the Government to give
support to measures aimed at lowering the readiness to launch
nuclear weapon systems and to support such measures on the floor
of the UN General Assembly. Question put and passed.
For information on this project
contact:
Doug Mattern
President, Association of World Citizens
55 New Montgomery Street, Suite 224,
San Francisco, CA 94105.
415 541 9610
worldcit@best.com
FAX: 650 745 0640
Or
John Hallam
Nuclear Weapons Campaigner Friends of the Earth Australia
nonnukes@foesyd.org.au
61-2-9567-7533, fax 61-2-9567-7166
1 Henry Street Turella NSW Aust 2205
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The following is a list of
the individuals and organizations that signed the Statement of
Endorsement
(32 Nobel Laureates, 237 organizations
from 40 countries, and 53 members of parliament)
Nobel Laureates
Dr. Alexei Abrikosov - Physics
2003
Dr. Kenneth Arrow - Economics 1972
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo - Peace 1996
Dr. Baruj Benacerraf - Medicine 1980
Dr. Guenter Blobel - Medicine 1999
Mairead Corrigan Maguire - Peace 1976
Johann Deisenhofer - Chemistry 1988
Dr. Peter C. Doherty - Medicine 1996
Dr. R.R. Ernst - Chemistry 1991
Dr. John B. Fenn - Chemistry 2002
Dr. Edmond H. Fischer - Medicine 1992
Dr. Val L. Fitch - Physics 1980
Dr. Roger Guillemin - Medicine 1977
Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman - Chemistry 1985
Dr. Dudley Herschbach - Chemistry 1986
Dr. Roald Hoffman - Chemistry 1981
Jose Ramos-Horta - Peace 1996
David H. Hubel - Medicine 1981
Dr. Arthur Kornberg - Medicine 1959
Dr. Paul C. Lauterbur - Medicine 2003
Dr. Leon M. Lederman - Physics 1988
Dr. Jean-Marie Lehn - Chemistry 1987
Dr. Mario Molina - Chemistry 1995
Dr. Ferid Murad - Medicine 1998
Dr. Joseph Rotblat - Peace 1995
Oscar Arias Sanchez - Peace 1987
Dr. Frederick Sanger - Chemistry 1958; 1980
Dr. Jack Steinberger - Physics 1998
Dr. E. Donnall Thomas - Medicine 1990
Archbishop Desmond Tutu - Peace 1984
Betty Williams - Peace 1976
The Dalai Lama - Peace 1989
Other distinguished Persons:
Maestro Mstislav Rostropovich
Dr. Robert Muller (Former UN
Assistant Secretary General)
Edgar Mitchell (Astronaut)
Benjamin Ferencz, (Prosecutor
at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials)
Prof Saul Mendlovitz, Dag Hammarskjold
Professor, Rutgers Law School
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author
International Organizations:
Tadatoshi Akiba, mayor of Hiroshima,
president of Mayors for Peace, 750 mayors in 110 countries
Ronald Mc Coy President, John
Loretz, Program Director, International Physicians for the Prevention
of Nuclear War (IPPNW) (Nobel Prize)
Emma Mc Gregor-Mento, Abolition-2000
Cora Weiss, Hague Appeal for
Peace (HAP)
Colin Archer, Secy - General,
International Peace Bureau, Geneva (Nobel
Prize)
Selma Brackman, President, War
and Peace Foundation, NY,
Alyn Ware, International Association
of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms,
Nicky Davies, Greenpeace International,
Amsterdam,
Susi Snyder, Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom
(WILPF), Director, United Nations Office- NY
Bruce Gagnon, Global Network
Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in
Space, Brunswick, ME, USA
Vijay Mehta, Chair, World Disarmament
Campaign, London, Charles Mercieca, International Association
of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) Huntsville Ala, USA
Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth
International, Ghent, Belgium
James K. Galbraith, Kate Cell,
Director, Lucy Webster, UN Observer, Economists for Peace and
Security (formerly Economists Allied for Arms Reduction/ (ECAAR))
Lucy Law Webster, Institute for
Global Policy
Rev. Vernon C. Nickols, UN Observer/NGO
Rep, Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation
Douglas Mattern, President, Association
of World Citizens
Yumi Kikuchi, founder, Global
Peace Campaign
Peer de Rijk, World Information
Service on Energy (WISE) Amsterdam
David Mumford, International
Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), Alkmaar, Neth.
Penny McManigal, The Millionth
Circle, USA
Mary T. Legge SSJ, DPI/NGO at
UN for Congregations of St Joseph
Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator,
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space,
Brunswick, ME
David Schweitzer, Schweitzer
Institute
U.S. Organizations:
Helen Caldicott, (founder PSR,
WAND) President, Nuclear Policy Research Institute, Wash DC
Alice Slater, Global Resource
and Action Centre for the Environment, NY
Martin Butcher, PSR, Washington
DC
Bruce Blair, President, Centre
for Defense Information, Washington, (identification only)
Jonathan Granoff, President,
Global Security Institute, (pers capy)
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation, Santa Barbara, California
Rev. Vernon C. Nichols, UN-NGO
Rep, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Pamela S. Meidell, Atomic Mirror,
Port Hueneme, California, USA
David Robinson, Pax Christi USA,
Erie, PA
Peggy L. Shriver, Fmr Asst. General
Secy, National Council of Churches, NY
Donald W. Shriver, Union Theological
Seminary, NY
Rev. William J. Morton, SSC,
Columbian Mission Office, US/Mexico Border, El Paso, Texas, USA
Bernice Fisher, Peninsula WILPF,
Palo Alto California
Bill Smirnow, Nuclear- Free New
York
Donald Keesing, Voices Opposed
to Environmental Racism, Wash DC
Lorraine Krofchok, Grandmothers
for Peace International, Elk Grove, Calif.
Vina Colley, PRESS, Ohio
Bruce A. Drew, Prairie Island
Coalition, Mn, USA
George Crocker, N. American Water
office, Lake Elmo, Mn, USA
Daniel Ellsberg, Truth-Telling
Project, (Fmr. RAND consultant to White House on Nuclear C3I)
Kathy Kelly, Coordinator, Voices
in the Wilderness, Chicago Ill
Patricia J. Ameno, Chair, Citizens
Action for a Safe Environment, Penn
Francis Chiappa, President, Cleveland
Peace Action
John Laforge, Nukewatch, WI,
USA
Andrew Hund, Alaska/Arctic Environmental
Defense Fund
Coleen Marshall Secy, Sheldon
Nidle, Founder, Planetary Activation Organization, Hawaii
Marsha Joyner, President, Hawaiian
National Communications Corporation, Honolulu, Hawaii
Paul Ehrlich, President, Centre
of Conservation Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, Caliph
Irving Solberg, President, Caucus
of Connecticut Democrats
Irving Solberg, President, Connecticut
Division, United Nations Association
Barbara Murphy-Warrington, CARE-USA,
Atlanta, Georgia
Alanna Hartzog, Co-Director,
Earth Rights Institute, PA
Beth A. Pirolli, Director, Families
United for a Safe Environment (FUSE)
Carolyn Vigneri, Nebraskans for
Peace, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Glen Carroll, Georgians Against
Nuclear Energy, Atlanta, GA, USA
Robert Gould MD, Physicians for
Social Responsibility (PSR) San Francisco Bay Area, Berkley,
Calif
Samuel S. Epstien MD, Chair,
Cancer Prevention Coalition, Chicago, Ill
Dr Kathleen Sullivan, Nuclear
Weapons Education and Action Project, NY
Terri Swearingen (1997 Goldman
Prize) Tri-State Environmental Council, WV
Bill Towe, North Carolina Peace
Action, NC, USA
Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, Global
Exchange
Jennifer O. Viereck, Director
HOME: Healing Ourselves & Mother Earth, Tecopa, CA
Bob Kinsey, Colorado Coalition
for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Kevin Martin Executive Director
Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund, MD
Bob Alpern, Coordinator, Action
for Nuclear Disarmament, Sonoma County, CA
Preston J. Truman, Downwinders,
Malad, Idaho
Congressman Dennnis Kucinich,
Ohio
Canadian Organizations
Debbie Grisdale President/Steven
Starr, Physicians for Global Responsibility, (PGS)
Rosalie Bertell, President Emeritus,
International Institute for Concern for Public Health, Toronto,
Ont
Roy and Anne Morris, Salmon Arm
Kairos Group, BC, Canada
Gordon Edwards PhD, President,
Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR)
Desmond Berghofer, Co-Founder,
Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver Canada
Metta Spencer, Editor, Peace
Magazine, Toronto, Ont
Libby Davies MP, Vancouver East,
Canada
Bill Blaikie MP, Elmwood-Transcona
(NDP), Canada
Douglas Roche, Senator Emeritus,
Fmr Disarmament Ambassador, Canada
UK Organizations
George Farebrother, World Court
Project, London, UK
Vijay Mehta, CND London
Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK
Reuben Ralph Say, Woking Action
for Peace/CND, Woking, Surrey, UK
Caroline Gilbert, Patricia Pulham,
Michael Pulham, Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CCND)
Jill Stallard National Secy,
CND Cymru, Nantagredig, Cynghordy, Llanymddyfri, Wales, UK
Dr David Lowry, Fmr Director,
European Proliferation Information Centre (EPIC), Lond
Di Mc Donald, Nuclear Information
Service, (NIS) Southampton, UK
Ken Coates, Chair, Bertrand Russell
Peace Foundation
Angie Zelter, Trident Ploughshares
UK
Richard Bramhall, Low-Level Radiation
Campaign, Llandridod, Powys, UK
Lindis Percy/Anni Rainbow, CAAB,
Yorks, UK, David Bowe, MEP
Dr Caroline Lucas MEP, Green
Member of the European Parliament for S.E. England
Alan Simpson MP
David Chaytor MP, Member for
Bury North
Frank Cook MP, Westminster
Llew Smith MP, Blaenau, Gwent,
Wales
John Mc Donnel MP, Labour, Hayes
and Harlington, Middlesex
Harry Cohen MP, House of Commons,
UK
John Austin MP, Labour, Erith
and Thamesmead, UK
Baroness Susan Miller, House
of Lords, Lond
Russian Organizations
Vladimir Sliviak, Co-Chair, Ecodefense,
Moscow
Professor Alexey Yablokov, President,
Centre for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow
Andrei Laletin, Chairman, Friends
of the Siberian Forests, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Jennie Sutton, Baikal Environmental
Wave
Victor Khazan, Friends of the
Earth Ukraine, Dneipropetrovsk, Ukr
Sergei Kolesnikov, Duma Member,
Deputy Chair, Cttee on Education and Science, Moscow
Sergei Kolesnikov, IPPNW-Russia
Indian Organizations
Achin Vanaik, Admiral L. Ramdas,
Lalita Ramdas, Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP),
India New Delhi
Admiral L. Ramdas, India-Pakistan
Soldiers Initiative for Peace, Raigad Dist, Maharashtra
Hari Sharma, President, International
South Asia Forum
Sukla Sen, EKTA, Mumbai, India
Mahipal Singh, Peoples Union
for Civil Liberties, New Delhi
Imrana Quadeer, Centre for Community
Health and Social Medicine, JNU, New Delhi
Harsh Kapoor, (India/France)
South Asians Against Nukes
Jayanti Patel, Indian Radical
Humanist Association, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Kirity Roy, Secy, MASUM, Howrah,
W. Bengal
Swami Manavatavadi, International
School of Humanitarian Thoughts and Practice, Rajghat, Kurukshetra,
Haryana
Aruna Roy, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti
Sangathan (MKSS), Rajasthan, The National Campaign for the Peoples
Right to Information (NCPRI) Rajasthan, India
Mahi Pal Singh, Treasurer, People's
Union for Civil Liberties-Delhi
Ammu Abraham, Womens Centre,
Mumbai
Meenakshi Gopinath, Women in
Security, Conflict Management and Peace (An initiative of the
Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH The Dalai Lama),
New Delhi
Pakistani Organizations
Pirzada Imtiaz Syed, Secy, All-Pakistan
Federation of United Trade Unions (APFUTU), Gujrat, Pakistan
AH Nayyar, President, Pakistan
Peace Coalition
Dr. Mubashir Hasan, (Fmr. finance
minister) Campaigner for Human Rights and India-Pakistan Friendship,
Pakistan-India Forum for Peace and Democracy
Prof. M. Ismail, Director, RISE,
Peshawar, Pakistan
New Zealand Organizations
Commander Robert Green, Disarmament
and Security Centre, Christchurch, NZ
Alyn Ware, Peace Foundation,
Wellington, NZ
Marion Hancock, Wendy John, Aotearoa/NZ
Peace Foundation, Auckland NZ
Christine Lesley, Campaign for
Nuclear Disarmament, Wellington, NZ
R.E. White, Director, Centre
for Peace Studies, University of Auckland, NZ
Peter Low, Quaker Peace and Service,
NZ
Jonathan Hunt MP, Speaker, NZ
Parliament
Keith Locke MP, Greens, NZ
Rod Donald MP, Co-Leader, Greens,
NZ
Gordon Copeland MP, United Future
Party
Tim Barnett MP, Labor, Christchurch
Central Electorate, Christchurch NZ
Australian Organizations
Sue Wareham, President, Medical
Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW)
Margaret Reynolds, President,
United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA)
Jo Vallentine, People for Nuclear
Disarmament W.A.
David Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner,
Australian Conservation Foundation, Carlton, Vic
Peter Robertson Environment Centre
of the Northern Territory (ECNT) Darwin, NT
Gar Smith, Environmentalists
Against War
Dr Stella Cornelius, Director,
Conflict Resolution Network, Chatswood NSW
Ned Iceton, Co-Convenor, Social
Development Network, Armidale NSW
Peter Burton, Peace Partners,
Toowoomba, Qld
Dr Mark Zirnsak, Director, Justice
and International Mission, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, Uniting
Church in Australia
Rev Sue Gorman, Moderator, Synod
of Victoria and Tasmania, Uniting Church in Australia
Keith Russel, Religious Society
of Friends, ACT
Senator Kerry Nettle, Greens,
NSW
Senator Lyn Alison, Australian
Democrats Vic
Senator Andrew Bartlett, Australian
Democrats Qld
Senator Aden Ridgeway, Australian
Democrats NSW
Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja,
Australian Democrats SA
Senator Brian Grieg, Australian
Democrats WA
Terry Roberts MP, SA
Carmen Lawrence MHR, President,
Labor Party, Jill Hall MHR
Warren Snowden MHR, ALP Member
for Lingiari NT
Alan Griffin MHR, ALP Member
for Bruce, Melb
Jann Mc Farlane MHR, ALP Member
for Stirling, W.A.
Tanya Plibersek MHR, ALP Member
for Sydney, NSW
Dee Margetts MLC (Greens), W.A.
Giz Watson, Greens, W.A.
Ian Cohen MLC (Greens) NSW
Kerrie Tucker MLA, Greens ACT
Swedish Organizations
Agneta Norberg/Bo Wirmark, Chair,
Swedish Peace Council
Stefan Bjornsson, President,
Swedish Scientists and Engineers Against Nuclear Arms (SEANA),
Stockholm
Gunnar Westberg, President, SLMK
(IPPNW Sweden), Goteborg, Sweden
Anders Ygeman MP, Stockholm
Danish Organizations
Poul Eck Sorensen, Peace Movement
of Esbjerg
Poul Eck Sorensen, Peace Council
of Denmark
Holger Terp/John Avery, Danish
Peace Academy
John Avery, Pugwash Conference
Denmark
Finnish Organizations
Teemu Matinpuro, Director, Finnish
Peace Committee, Helsinki, Finland
Lea Launokari, Women for Peace
Finland
Ulla Kotzer, Women Against Nuclear
Power Finland
Heidi Hautala MP Greens
Kimmo Kiljunen MP, Social Democrats,
Finland
German Organizations
Eva Quistorp, Women for Peace,
Germany
Henning Droege, Arzt fur Allgemeinmedizin,
Homoopathie, Naturheilverfahren, Allgau, Germany
Wolfgang Schlupp-Hauck, Friedens-und
Begegnungsstaette Mutlangen eV, Germany
Bernd Frieboese, Barsebackoffensiv
(Pers capy)
Rienhard Voss, Pax Christi Germany,
Franfurt Am Main
Dr Anne Brie MEP PDS
Uta Zapf, MP, Chair, Bundestag
Committee on Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation
Belgian Organizations
Hans Lammerant, Forum Voor Vredesaktie,
Belgium
Zoe Genot MP, Greens, Belgium
Eloi Glorieux MP, Greens, Flemish
Regional Parliament, Belgium
Muriel Gerkens MP, Greens, Brussels
Senator Patrick Vankrunkelsven,
Brussels, Belgium
Marie Isler-Beguin, MEP
Edith Klein, European Commission,
Brussels, Belgium
Netherlands Organizations
Harry Van Bommel MP, Netherlands
Joost Lagendijk, Member of European
Parliament, GroenLinks, Netherlands
Fiona Dove, Director, Transnational
Institute, Netherlands
Carolien Van de Stadt, WILPF-Netherlands
French Organizations
Dominique Lalanne, Co-Chair,
Stop Essais, France
Bruno Barrilot, Director, Observatoire
des Armes Nucleaires Francaises, Lyons, France
Jean-Marie Matagne, Action des
Citoyens pour le Desarmement Nucleaire (ACDN) Saintes, France
Luisa Morgantini MEP, Italy/Brussells
Folena Pietro, MP Italy, Foreign
Affairs Commission, Democrats of the Left (DS) - Olive Tree Coalition
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Joint Project of Association of World Citizens and Friends of the Earth Anti-Nuclear Weapons Campaign THE EUROPARLIAMENT, AND NGOS AROUND THE WORLD 32 Nobel Laureates and 237 organizations and parliamentarians from around the world have signed a Statement of Endorsement that calls for removing all strategic nuclear weapons from "hair-trigger alert and "Launch on Warning" status. In addition the Statement has been endorsed by the European Parliament and by the Australian Senate. The Statement is being released in the warm-up to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Review Conference in New York May 2-29 and is aimed at raising the profile of the issue of nuclear weapons operating status at that review. Of the 32 Nobel Laureates signing the Statement, eight are Peace Laureates, including the Dalai Lama, Jose Ramos Horta, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Mairead Corrigan Maquire, Joseph Rotblat, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Oscar Arias Sanchez, and Betty Williams. In addition, the International Peace Bureau and IPPNW, that have received the Nobel Peace Prize, also endorsed the Statement. A total of 53 parliamentarians have signed the Statement from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Russia, Belgium, Germany, Brazil, U.S.A., and Italy. The appeal was endorsed in motions concerning the Nuclear Nonproliferation Review Conference on march 10th by both the European Parliament and the Australian Senate. This project was initiated and is coordinated by the Association of World Citizens in San Francisco and by Friends of the Earth Australia in Sydney, with assistance from many other groups worldwide including Abolition-2000, the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), Mayors for Peace, and the War & Peace Foundation. In spite of significant reductions in the number of nuclear warheads held by the U.S. and Russia from 1990 onwards, both countries maintain thousands of warheads on 'launch on warning' and 'hair-trigger" alert status to this day and will continue to do so, in spite of the Moscow Treaty, through 2012. A recent report by the RAND corporation reported that the 4,000 U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear warheads on hair-trigger alert could be launched in a few minutes notice destroying both countries in an hour. A number of terrifying 'near misses' to nuclear war have taken place, both during and after the end of the Cold War, in which the fate of civilization has depended on correct decision-making by highly stressed military personnel or on presidents whose sobriety has sometimes been questionable. Moreover, the nuclear danger has accelerated with the acquisition of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan, and the evolution of centralized command and control systems in those countries. The subcontinent is moving toward a highly dangerous 'hair trigger' status. Taking nuclear weapons systems off hair-trigger alert has been called for repeatedly by the European Parliament, the UN General Assembly, and was a key recommendation of the Canberra Commission in 1996, and of the Atlanta Consultation, chaired by President Carter in January of 2005. Removing strategic nuclear weapons from launch on warning status is seen by the Canberra Commission and the Atlanta Consultation as a first step toward the elimination of nuclear arsenals worldwide, as required by article VI of the NPT. The issue of removing nuclear weapons from "hair-trigger" alert underlines the necessity of ceasing to play Russian (or American, or Indian or Pakistani) roulette with the entire world. Our Statement calling for the elimination of hair-trigger policy will be released in Melbourne, Geneva, Hiroshima, San Francisco, New York (at the UN), and London on April 5th. This project was initiated from the World Citizen Award presented to Stanislav Petrov in Moscow on 21 May 2004 by the Association of World Citizens. Petrov is credited by many arms experts as probably saving the world from nuclear war though his singular decision when in charge of an early-warning bunker outside of Moscow on September 26, 1983, when the system indicated the Soviet Union was under a missile attack by the United States. Attached: STATEMENT OF ENDORSEMENT For the resolutions "Operational Status of Nuclear Weapons" The Distinguished individuals and organizations below make the following appeal concerning nuclear weapons, and the danger posed by the maintenance of thousands of nuclear warheads and delivery systems on launch-on-warning status. We call on the governments of the United States, Russia, China, France, and the UK, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea, to support and implement steps to lower the operational status of nuclear weapon systems in order to reduce the risk of nuclear catastrophe and as part of their obligations, affirmed by the International Court of Justice, to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons under strict and effective international control. We note that: 1) To this day, thousands of nuclear weapons in the US and Russia are on Launch-on-warning status, and that the megatonnage involved remains more than enough to destroy civilization and perhaps the human race. 2) That the Indian subcontinent is increasingly on a 'hair-trigger' status. 3) That there have been numerous incidents in which a nuclear exchange involving thousands of warheads could have taken place, and in which the fate of the earth has depended on the correct judgment of a single individual. 4) That the US, Russia, China, France, and the UK have failed so far to make further progress to achieve the total and unequivocal elimination of their nuclear arsenals, as called for under international law. 5) That, in addition to the failure of the 'official' nuclear weapons powers to fulfill their treaty obligations, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea also posses nuclear weapons, and that the risk of their use is very real. 6) That a number of calls have been made by the UN General Assembly and by the European Parliament to lower the operational status of nuclear weapons. Accordingly we call on the governments of the United States, Russia, China, France and the UK, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea, to: a) Take immediate steps to lower the operational status of nuclear weapons, and to revise nuclear doctrines, policies and postures to reflect such lowered operational status. b) To implement in good faith their obligations under international law, to accomplish the total and unequivocal elimination of their nuclear arsenals. c) To implement the steps toward nuclear disarmament outlined in the '13 steps' of the final declaration of the Year 2000 NPT Review Conference. d) We call on non- nuclear nations to press for nuclear disarmament in every available international forum especially including the United Nations General Assembly First Committee and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. e) We call on legislators worldwide to pass resolutions in national and other parliaments pressing for the lowering of the operational status of nuclear weapons and for nuclear disarmament as mandated by international law. We draw the attention of legislators and diplomats to the two texts below: i) A model for a resolution in the UN General Assembly calling for the lowering of the operational status of nuclear weapons (Note that in the process of getting it through the GA First Committee it may experience some alterations in text) ii) Motion passed by the Australian Senate congratulating Colonel Stanislav Petrov on preventing nuclear war during the Serpukhov 15 incident of Sept 26 1983, and calling for the lowering of the operational status of nuclear weapons. You are invited to endorse the statement above calling for the lowering of the operational status of nuclear weapons systems, and to give your support to measures such as the texts below. *********************************************************************** Operational Status of Nuclear Weapons Addressed to the United Nations General Assembly, the Non Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, and to all nuclear weapons states Convinced that the possible use of nuclear weapons poses the most serious threat to humanity and to the survival of civilization, Convinced also that the maintenance of nuclear weapons systems at a high level of readiness-to-use increases the risks of unintentional or accidental use of such weapons which would have catastrophic consequences, Noting that a high level of nuclear weapons readiness-to-use has contributed to a number of circumstances when nuclear weapons have become very close to being used, Welcoming steps taken by States possessing nuclear weapons to reduce nuclear risks and prevent nuclear war, Welcoming particularly the agreement by Russia and the United States of America on the Establishment of the Joint Centre for the Exchange of Data from Early Warning Systems and Notification of Missile Launches, but noting that the agreement has not yet been implemented, Considering that, until nuclear
weapons are eliminated, it is imperative that further steps be
taken to prevent the accidental, unauthorized or unintentional
use of nuclear weapons, Expressing its concern also about emerging approaches to the broader role of nuclear weapons as part of security strategies, including rationalizations for the use, and the possible development, of new types of nuclear weapons, Recalling the program of action agreed at the 2000 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, which called for concrete agreed measures to further reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons systems Recalling resolutions [specify resolution numbers] on the floor of this assembly have called for reductions in the operational status of nuclear weapons, Mindful that concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons systems will help reduce tensions, build confidence and support negotiations leading to the elimination of nuclear weapons, 1. Calls for a review of nuclear doctrines emphasizing concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons, 2. Encourages States to immediately implement unilateral steps including, inter alia, the rescinding of launch-on-warning policies, and to urgently conclude negotiated steps, pending agreements for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, 3. Calls on all States possessing nuclear weapons to undertake not to increase the number or types of weapons deployed and not to develop new types of weapons or rationalizations for their use, 4. Calls for further confidence building and transparency measures to reduce the threats posed by nuclear weapons, 5. Requests States possessing nuclear weapons to report to the 60th session on steps they have taken to implement this resolution 6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its 60th session the item entitled "Operational status of nuclear weapons." ***************************************************************** FOREIGN AFFAIRS-NUCLEAR WEAPON SYSTEMS-COLONEL STANISLAV PETROV Senator Allison amended general business notice of motion no. 895 by leave and, pursuant to notice of motion not objected to as a formal motion, moved-That the Senate- (a) recalls the incident that took place in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) at Serpukhov-15 on 26 September 1983 at 12.30 pm Moscow time, and the role of Colonel Stanislav Petrov in this incident; (b) notes: (i) That the Serpukhov-15 incident, in which a newly installed Soviet surveillance system reported that the United States of America (US) had launched nuclear missiles at the USSR, is considered by many analysts to have been the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war, (ii) that the megatonnage that was likely to have been used at that time was between 30 and 60 times the amount required to produce a nuclear winter, and that the number of nuclear weapons that would have been launched would have been enough to end civilization and kill most living things, (iii) the role played by Colonel Petrov in refraining from launching a number of thousands of warheads at the US in retaliation and in pressing his superiors to consider the report a false alarm, (iv) That the Canberra Commission of 1996 recommended that strategic nuclear weapons be taken off `Launch on Warning' status, and (v) the resolution of the European Parliament of 18 November 1999, and the Senate's own resolutions as well as repeated calls to lower the alert status of strategic nuclear weapons made by the Non-Aligned Movement and the New Agenda Coalition that have been passed year after year by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly; (b) offers its congratulations to Colonel Petrov for being presented with the World Citizen Award on Friday, 21 May 2004, in recognition of his actions; and (c) urges the Government to give support to measures aimed at lowering the readiness to launch nuclear weapon systems and to support such measures on the floor of the UN General Assembly. Question put and passed. For information on this project contact: Doug Mattern Or John Hallam The following is a list of the individuals and organizations that signed the Statement of Endorsement (32 Nobel Laureates, 237 organizations from 40 countries, and 53 members of parliament) Nobel Laureates Dr. Alexei Abrikosov - Physics
2003 Other distinguished Persons: Maestro Mstislav Rostropovich Dr. Robert Muller (Former UN Assistant Secretary General) Edgar Mitchell (Astronaut) Benjamin Ferencz, (Prosecutor at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials) Prof Saul Mendlovitz, Dag Hammarskjold Professor, Rutgers Law School Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author International Organizations: Tadatoshi Akiba, mayor of Hiroshima, president of Mayors for Peace, 750 mayors in 110 countries Ronald Mc Coy President, John Loretz, Program Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) (Nobel Prize) Emma Mc Gregor-Mento, Abolition-2000 Cora Weiss, Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP) Colin Archer, Secy - General,
International Peace Bureau, Geneva (Nobel Selma Brackman, President, War and Peace Foundation, NY, Alyn Ware, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, Nicky Davies, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam, Susi Snyder, Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom Bruce Gagnon, Global Network
Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Vijay Mehta, Chair, World Disarmament Campaign, London, Charles Mercieca, International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) Huntsville Ala, USA Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium James K. Galbraith, Kate Cell, Director, Lucy Webster, UN Observer, Economists for Peace and Security (formerly Economists Allied for Arms Reduction/ (ECAAR)) Lucy Law Webster, Institute for Global Policy Rev. Vernon C. Nickols, UN Observer/NGO
Rep, Nuclear Age Peace Douglas Mattern, President, Association of World Citizens Yumi Kikuchi, founder, Global Peace Campaign Peer de Rijk, World Information Service on Energy (WISE) Amsterdam David Mumford, International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), Alkmaar, Neth. Penny McManigal, The Millionth Circle, USA Mary T. Legge SSJ, DPI/NGO at UN for Congregations of St Joseph Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Brunswick, ME David Schweitzer, Schweitzer Institute U.S. Organizations: Helen Caldicott, (founder PSR, WAND) President, Nuclear Policy Research Institute, Wash DC Alice Slater, Global Resource and Action Centre for the Environment, NY Martin Butcher, PSR, Washington DC Bruce Blair, President, Centre for Defense Information, Washington, (identification only) Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute, (pers capy) David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, California Rev. Vernon C. Nichols, UN-NGO Rep, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Pamela S. Meidell, Atomic Mirror, Port Hueneme, California, USA David Robinson, Pax Christi USA, Erie, PA Peggy L. Shriver, Fmr Asst. General Secy, National Council of Churches, NY Donald W. Shriver, Union Theological Seminary, NY Rev. William J. Morton, SSC, Columbian Mission Office, US/Mexico Border, El Paso, Texas, USA Bernice Fisher, Peninsula WILPF, Palo Alto California Bill Smirnow, Nuclear- Free New York Donald Keesing, Voices Opposed to Environmental Racism, Wash DC Lorraine Krofchok, Grandmothers for Peace International, Elk Grove, Calif. Vina Colley, PRESS, Ohio Bruce A. Drew, Prairie Island Coalition, Mn, USA George Crocker, N. American Water office, Lake Elmo, Mn, USA Daniel Ellsberg, Truth-Telling Project, (Fmr. RAND consultant to White House on Nuclear C3I) Kathy Kelly, Coordinator, Voices in the Wilderness, Chicago Ill Patricia J. Ameno, Chair, Citizens Action for a Safe Environment, Penn Francis Chiappa, President, Cleveland Peace Action John Laforge, Nukewatch, WI, USA Andrew Hund, Alaska/Arctic Environmental Defense Fund Coleen Marshall Secy, Sheldon Nidle, Founder, Planetary Activation Organization, Hawaii Marsha Joyner, President, Hawaiian National Communications Corporation, Honolulu, Hawaii Paul Ehrlich, President, Centre of Conservation Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, Caliph Irving Solberg, President, Caucus of Connecticut Democrats Irving Solberg, President, Connecticut Division, United Nations Association Barbara Murphy-Warrington, CARE-USA, Atlanta, Georgia Alanna Hartzog, Co-Director, Earth Rights Institute, PA Beth A. Pirolli, Director, Families United for a Safe Environment (FUSE) Carolyn Vigneri, Nebraskans for Peace, Omaha, Nebraska, USA Glen Carroll, Georgians Against Nuclear Energy, Atlanta, GA, USA Robert Gould MD, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) San Francisco Bay Area, Berkley, Calif Samuel S. Epstien MD, Chair, Cancer Prevention Coalition, Chicago, Ill Dr Kathleen Sullivan, Nuclear Weapons Education and Action Project, NY Terri Swearingen (1997 Goldman Prize) Tri-State Environmental Council, WV Bill Towe, North Carolina Peace Action, NC, USA Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, Global Exchange Jennifer O. Viereck, Director HOME: Healing Ourselves & Mother Earth, Tecopa, CA Bob Kinsey, Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of Nuclear War Kevin Martin Executive Director Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund, MD Bob Alpern, Coordinator, Action for Nuclear Disarmament, Sonoma County, CA Preston J. Truman, Downwinders, Malad, Idaho Congressman Dennnis Kucinich, Ohio Canadian Organizations Debbie Grisdale President/Steven Starr, Physicians for Global Responsibility, (PGS) Rosalie Bertell, President Emeritus, International Institute for Concern for Public Health, Toronto, Ont Roy and Anne Morris, Salmon Arm Kairos Group, BC, Canada Gordon Edwards PhD, President, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR) Desmond Berghofer, Co-Founder, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver Canada Metta Spencer, Editor, Peace Magazine, Toronto, Ont Libby Davies MP, Vancouver East, Canada Bill Blaikie MP, Elmwood-Transcona (NDP), Canada Douglas Roche, Senator Emeritus, Fmr Disarmament Ambassador, Canada UK Organizations George Farebrother, World Court Project, London, UK Vijay Mehta, CND London Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK Reuben Ralph Say, Woking Action for Peace/CND, Woking, Surrey, UK Caroline Gilbert, Patricia Pulham, Michael Pulham, Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CCND) Jill Stallard National Secy, CND Cymru, Nantagredig, Cynghordy, Llanymddyfri, Wales, UK Dr David Lowry, Fmr Director, European Proliferation Information Centre (EPIC), Lond Di Mc Donald, Nuclear Information Service, (NIS) Southampton, UK Ken Coates, Chair, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Angie Zelter, Trident Ploughshares UK Richard Bramhall, Low-Level Radiation Campaign, Llandridod, Powys, UK Lindis Percy/Anni Rainbow, CAAB, Yorks, UK, David Bowe, MEP Dr Caroline Lucas MEP, Green Member of the European Parliament for S.E. England Alan Simpson MP David Chaytor MP, Member for Bury North Frank Cook MP, Westminster Llew Smith MP, Blaenau, Gwent, Wales John Mc Donnel MP, Labour, Hayes and Harlington, Middlesex Harry Cohen MP, House of Commons, UK John Austin MP, Labour, Erith and Thamesmead, UK Baroness Susan Miller, House of Lords, Lond Russian Organizations Vladimir Sliviak, Co-Chair, Ecodefense, Moscow Professor Alexey Yablokov, President, Centre for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow Andrei Laletin, Chairman, Friends of the Siberian Forests, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Jennie Sutton, Baikal Environmental Wave Victor Khazan, Friends of the Earth Ukraine, Dneipropetrovsk, Ukr Sergei Kolesnikov, Duma Member, Deputy Chair, Cttee on Education and Science, Moscow Sergei Kolesnikov, IPPNW-Russia Indian Organizations Achin Vanaik, Admiral L. Ramdas, Lalita Ramdas, Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP), India New Delhi Admiral L. Ramdas, India-Pakistan Soldiers Initiative for Peace, Raigad Dist, Maharashtra Hari Sharma, President, International South Asia Forum Sukla Sen, EKTA, Mumbai, India Mahipal Singh, Peoples Union for Civil Liberties, New Delhi Imrana Quadeer, Centre for Community Health and Social Medicine, JNU, New Delhi Harsh Kapoor, (India/France) South Asians Against Nukes Jayanti Patel, Indian Radical Humanist Association, Ahmedabad, Gujarat Kirity Roy, Secy, MASUM, Howrah, W. Bengal Swami Manavatavadi, International School of Humanitarian Thoughts and Practice, Rajghat, Kurukshetra, Haryana Aruna Roy, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), Rajasthan, The National Campaign for the Peoples Right to Information (NCPRI) Rajasthan, India Mahi Pal Singh, Treasurer, People's Union for Civil Liberties-Delhi Ammu Abraham, Womens Centre, Mumbai Meenakshi Gopinath, Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (An initiative of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH The Dalai Lama), New Delhi Pakistani Organizations Pirzada Imtiaz Syed, Secy, All-Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions (APFUTU), Gujrat, Pakistan AH Nayyar, President, Pakistan Peace Coalition Dr. Mubashir Hasan, (Fmr. finance minister) Campaigner for Human Rights and India-Pakistan Friendship, Pakistan-India Forum for Peace and Democracy Prof. M. Ismail, Director, RISE, Peshawar, Pakistan New Zealand Organizations Commander Robert Green, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, NZ Alyn Ware, Peace Foundation, Wellington, NZ Marion Hancock, Wendy John, Aotearoa/NZ Peace Foundation, Auckland NZ Christine Lesley, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Wellington, NZ R.E. White, Director, Centre for Peace Studies, University of Auckland, NZ Peter Low, Quaker Peace and Service, NZ Jonathan Hunt MP, Speaker, NZ Parliament Keith Locke MP, Greens, NZ Rod Donald MP, Co-Leader, Greens, NZ Gordon Copeland MP, United Future Party Tim Barnett MP, Labor, Christchurch Central Electorate, Christchurch NZ Australian Organizations Sue Wareham, President, Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) Margaret Reynolds, President, United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) Jo Vallentine, People for Nuclear Disarmament W.A. David Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation, Carlton, Vic Peter Robertson Environment Centre of the Northern Territory (ECNT) Darwin, NT Gar Smith, Environmentalists Against War Dr Stella Cornelius, Director, Conflict Resolution Network, Chatswood NSW Ned Iceton, Co-Convenor, Social Development Network, Armidale NSW Peter Burton, Peace Partners, Toowoomba, Qld Dr Mark Zirnsak, Director, Justice and International Mission, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, Uniting Church in Australia Rev Sue Gorman, Moderator, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, Uniting Church in Australia Keith Russel, Religious Society of Friends, ACT Senator Kerry Nettle, Greens, NSW Senator Lyn Alison, Australian Democrats Vic Senator Andrew Bartlett, Australian Democrats Qld Senator Aden Ridgeway, Australian Democrats NSW Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja, Australian Democrats SA Senator Brian Grieg, Australian Democrats WA Terry Roberts MP, SA Carmen Lawrence MHR, President, Labor Party, Jill Hall MHR Warren Snowden MHR, ALP Member for Lingiari NT Alan Griffin MHR, ALP Member for Bruce, Melb Jann Mc Farlane MHR, ALP Member for Stirling, W.A. Tanya Plibersek MHR, ALP Member for Sydney, NSW Dee Margetts MLC (Greens), W.A. Giz Watson, Greens, W.A. Ian Cohen MLC (Greens) NSW Kerrie Tucker MLA, Greens ACT Swedish Organizations Agneta Norberg/Bo Wirmark, Chair, Swedish Peace Council Stefan Bjornsson, President, Swedish Scientists and Engineers Against Nuclear Arms (SEANA), Stockholm Gunnar Westberg, President, SLMK (IPPNW Sweden), Goteborg, Sweden Anders Ygeman MP, Stockholm Danish Organizations Poul Eck Sorensen, Peace Movement of Esbjerg Poul Eck Sorensen, Peace Council of Denmark Holger Terp/John Avery, Danish Peace Academy John Avery, Pugwash Conference Denmark Finnish Organizations Teemu Matinpuro, Director, Finnish Peace Committee, Helsinki, Finland Lea Launokari, Women for Peace Finland Ulla Kotzer, Women Against Nuclear Power Finland Heidi Hautala MP Greens Kimmo Kiljunen MP, Social Democrats, Finland German Organizations Eva Quistorp, Women for Peace, Germany Henning Droege, Arzt fur Allgemeinmedizin, Homoopathie, Naturheilverfahren, Allgau, Germany Wolfgang Schlupp-Hauck, Friedens-und Begegnungsstaette Mutlangen eV, Germany Bernd Frieboese, Barsebackoffensiv (Pers capy) Rienhard Voss, Pax Christi Germany, Franfurt Am Main Dr Anne Brie MEP PDS Uta Zapf, MP, Chair, Bundestag Committee on Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation Belgian Organizations Hans Lammerant, Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Belgium Zoe Genot MP, Greens, Belgium Eloi Glorieux MP, Greens, Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium Muriel Gerkens MP, Greens, Brussels Senator Patrick Vankrunkelsven, Brussels, Belgium Marie Isler-Beguin, MEP Edith Klein, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Netherlands Organizations Harry Van Bommel MP, Netherlands Joost Lagendijk, Member of European Parliament, GroenLinks, Netherlands Fiona Dove, Director, Transnational Institute, Netherlands Carolien Van de Stadt, WILPF-Netherlands French Organizations Dominique Lalanne, Co-Chair, Stop Essais, France Bruno Barrilot, Director, Observatoire des Armes Nucleaires Francaises, Lyons, France Jean-Marie Matagne, Action des Citoyens pour le Desarmement Nucleaire (ACDN) Saintes, France Luisa Morgantini MEP, Italy/Brussells Folena Pietro, MP Italy, Foreign Affairs Commission, Democrats of the Left (DS) - Olive Tree Coalition Hallgeir H. Langeland MP, Norway Bent Natvig, Chair, Norwegian Pugwash Committee, Oslo, Norway Czech Peace Society, Prague, Czech Rep, Romanian Organizations Constantin Cretu, Romanian Social Forum, Bucharest, Romania Constantin Cretu, 'Carpathians Genius' Bucharest, Romania Aurel Duta, For Mother Earth, Bucharest, Romania Manana Kochladze, 'Green Alternative', Tblisi, Georgia Japanese Organizations Atsushi Fujioka, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Kyoto, Japan Hideyuki-Ban, Secy-General, Citizens Nuclear Information Centre (CNIC) Tokyo, Japan Yayoi Tsuchida, International Secretary, Gensuikyo, (Japan Council Against A and H Bombs) Shigetoshi Iwamatsu, Chair, Gensuikin, (Japan Congress Against A and H Bombs) Wen Bo, Pacific Environment, Beijing, China Kim Choony, Korean Federation for Environmental Movement, (KFEM) Prof Samsung Lee, Political Science, Hallym University Mexican Organizations Efraim Cruz Marin, President, Academicos de Ciencias y Humanidades, Mexico Noni Fernandez, Mexican Initiative Against War, Chiapas, Colonia Roma Luis Guttierez Esparza, President, Latin-American Circle for International Studies (LACIS), Mexico City Grace de Haro, APDH, Rio Negro, Argentina Brazilian Organizations Dina Lida Kinoshita, Unesca Catedra for Education for Peace, Human Rights, Democracy and Tolerance, Sao Paulo, Brazil Senator Roberto Saturnino, Brazilian Federal Senate, (for Rio de Janeiro) Philippine Organizations Roy Cabonegro, YSDA-Pilipinas, Quezon City, Philippines Clemente G. 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