STATEMENT OF PURPOSE THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLITION DAYS 1997

All nuclear weapon states must comply with international law.

The Nuclear Weapon States should:

* Take nuclear weapons off alert

* Separate nuclear warheads from their delivery vehicles.
* Create new nuclear weapons free zones

* Start multilateral negotiations for further dramatic arms reductions now and a Nuclear Weapons Convention by the year 2000.

In addition NATO as a nuclear alliance should:

* Abandon its policy of first use of nuclear weapons.

* Relinquish its plans for expansion into Eastern Europe and act to create a nuclear weapon free zone in Central Europe.

* Comply with Articles I and II of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.

All states should :

* Close down military industry and use the resources and money to invest in human and ecological needs.
* Replace military doctrine with non-violent social defence

Failure to implement these aims swiftly would justify peaceful action by citizens to uphold international law.

The Statement of Purpose of the Nuclear Weapons Abolition Days 1997 (NWAD) was in his first version drafted and agreed on by George Farebrother (WCP UK), Felicity Hill (WILPF USA), Anne Marie L.Corominas (LCNP USA) and Hanna Jarvinen, Katri Silvonen and Pol D'Huyvetter (For Mother Earth International). Reviewed and edited by people present at the third successful international meeting in Gent. (This is the reviewed and edited text.)

Nuclear Weapons Abolition Days (NWAD) is an international campaign of civil (dis)obedience to uphold international law for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. International activists from different environmental/peace movements are organizing non-violent direct actions to publicise the Advisory Opinion of the UN International Court of Justice and to uphold international law on the following dates and places :

8 July - NATO Summit, Madrid, Spain
6 August - NATO HQ, Brussels, Belgium
9 August - at "Sites of Crime" (nuclear weapon laboratories, submarine bases and depots etc.)
1-11 August - Peace Camp, Brussels, Belgium

Endorsing organisations (5 May 1997):

International organisations :

For Mother Earth International (Belgium), International Peace Bureau (Switzerland), Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Switzerland)

National organisations :

Article Nine Hiroshima (Japan), Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition (Australia),
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK), Center of Research and Action on Peace (Greece),
Earth First! (Netherlands), EUCOMmunity (Germany), For Mother Earth France (France),
Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance (Netherlands), Los Alamos Action Network (USA),
IANUS (Germany), Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (USA), Healing Global Wounds (USA), Quakers of New Zealand (New Zealand), Tribunaal voor de Vrede (Netherlands),
Nederlandse Kernstop Coalitie (Netherlands), Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (USA),
Prague International Anti-Nuclear Office (Czech Republic), Project Ploughshares (Canada),
The Nuclear Resister (USA), NZ Foundation for Peace Studies (New Zealand),
Veterans Against Nuclear Arms (Canada), War Resisters League (USA) & World Court
Project (UK)

If you or your organisation endorse this Statement of Purpose please fill in the return form:

YES! I endorse the NWAD Statement of Purpose!

Name/Organisation:________________________________________________

Contact person : _________________________________________________

Address:__________________________________________________________

Code ___________ Town : _____________________ Country ____________

Phone:_____________________ Fax:______________________________

E-mail:______________________________

and send it back to:

For Mother Earth International,
Lange Steenstraat 16/D, 9000 Gent, Belgium;
Phone/fax +32.9.233.8439,
E-mail : pol@motherearth.org

Your organisation will then be added to endorsers list on flyer, news releases, etc. ...

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The International contact address for NWAD is:

For Mother Earth International,
Lange Steenstraat 16/D, 9000 Gent, Belgium;
Phone/fax +32.9.233.8439,
E-mail : pol@motherearth.org

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