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CND welcomes Security Council unanimity for action |
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 |
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
today welcomed the UN Security Council resolution passed unanimously after the
special session on disarmament chaired by President Barack Obama.
Kate Hudson, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said
"Today's UN Security Council meeting
indicates another step on the path towards nuclear disarmament.
The unanimous support for dealing with disarmament and
non-proliferation - as
an overriding priority -
is most welcome. There has been much pious rhetoric from world leaders in the
past, but this time there are the beginnings of real-world action to back up the
fine words.
"The unanimous support for creating
the 'conditions for a world without nuclear weapons' must be followed through.
The US-Russian disarmament talks, President Obama's push for the US Congress to
ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and Gordon Brown's Trident
cutback are all steps that move us in the right direction. The support given to
the development of nuclear weapon-free zones is excellent. These zones now cover
the entire southern hemisphere and international support for their expansion
into the Middle East and South Asia would be one potential route to bringing
Israel, India and Pakistan into
compliance with the norms of international law."
"But more can and must
be done to ensure that reductions transform into a global abolition process.
And this can start at home. Britain can provide a much bigger
boost to all these efforts by cancelling the replacement of Trident
outright."
Also this afternoon, Eric
Joyce MP, the former Parliamentary
aide to the Defence Secretary has called for Trident to be included in the
upcoming Strategic Defence Review which will take place after the general
election. Writing for the website of the pressure-group Compass, Joyce calls for
Labour to 'take the bull by the horns' and engage in open public debate on the
rationale for replacing the system. See http://www.compassonline.org.uk/news/item.asp?n=5600 for the article.
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For further information and interviews please contact Ben Soffa, CND's Press Officer, on 0207 7002350 or 07968 420859
- The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is one of Europe's
biggest single-issue peace campaigns, with over 35,000 members in the
UK. CND campaigns for the abolition of all nuclear weapons everywhere. www.cnduk.org
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