Citizens of the World Call Upon Shanghai Cooperation Organization To Help Secure Pakistan Nuclear Arsenal The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, of which Pakistan is a permanent observer State, has a prime duty to help secure the nuclear arsenal of Pakistan after the state of emergency set in motion on 3 November 2007 by President General Pervez Musharraf. In a message to Mr. Bolat K. Nurgaliev, Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Office to the United Nations, Geneva, of the Association of World Citizens stressed that "the possession of nuclear weapons and long-range delivery systems transforms the situation in Pakistan from a national matter to one of world importance. General Musharraf's misguided actions have led to massive arrests and rumours of a possible counter military coup and unpredictable actions by military factions. As Citizens of the World, we have long been concerned with the control, reduction, and finally, total abolition of nuclear weapons. Rene Wadlow, chief representative to the UN, Geneva, of the Association of World Citizens, underlined the dangers to the member States of the SCO as well as to the other permanent observer States - India and Iran - of an unsecured nuclear arsenal in the current unrest in Pakistan. Wadlow quoted 11 November 2007 report in the Washington Post that "The United States has developed contingency plans to safeguard Pakistani nuclear weapons if they risk falling into the wrong hands. The newspaper quotes an unnamed former US official as saying: If an attempt were made by the US to seize the weapons to prevent their loss, it could be very messy." Therefore, world citizens call upon the SCO for a speedy regional approach to assure the security of the nuclear arsenal as well as an immediate return to a constitutional rule of law in Pakistan. Home Page | AWC Goals | AWC Branches | Archives Resolution 2010 | Human Manifesto | AWC History United Nations | AWC Staff | Join Online Today | Worldometers Contact Us