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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:56:00 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Sign Petition for CSD against nuke power

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Following is the completed text of the Petition to the CSD.

Apologies to those of you who did not receive the text in that mailing.

___________________________________________

>> 12 February 2000
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> We now have agreed on a common text for the Petition Against the
>> Support of Nuclear Technologies at the CSD.  Thanks very much for all
>> your suggestions and support and feedback.
>>
>> Please feel free to circulate it to your networks.  The current text
>> will be distribute to government representatives at the Energy Experts
>> meeting this month in New York [26 Feb. - 2 March].  It will remain open
>> for signatures and then be formally presented to the CSD Bureau and
>> governments at the CSD high-level session [16 - 27 April].
>>
>> The original Petition was presented to the CSD Bureau prior to its
>> October meeting in the Czech Republic.  It was an important component of
>> our successful effort to convince the U.N. to push the organizers of the
>> CSD Energy Exhibition to remove 'nuclear technologies' from the list of
>> potential exhibit categories.
>>
>> It was also presented to the Climate Secretariat, during COP 6, at the
>> Hague.
>>
>> The Petition version that now appears in the included Word file, and in
>> the identical text below, includes the final suggestions from
>> organization such as WISE, NIRS, and the Earth Day Network.  These have
>> been edited into the original document that had been drafted and
>> circulated by Helene Connor of Helio International with input from a
>> number NGOs, particularly Gunnar Olesen [INFORSE], Alice Slater [GRACE],
>> Pincas Jawetz [FFPAI], and Gail Karlsson [CitNet].
>>
>> The (only) substantive additions to the version sent out on 6 February,
>> is a line in paragraph seven, regarding the opposition to nuclear in the
>> CDM by twelve Latin American nations.  That is a matter of record.  In
>> addition, we have removed the reference to the Energy Exhibition that
>> was in the first paragraph, and left it instead in the closing para.
>> It's been replaced it with a warning on the dangers of actions by the
>> CSD.
>>
>> Networks should be informed that positive signers should be sent back to
>> Myrthe Verweij, at WISE-Amsterdam [[e-mail]].  She will
>> record this round of signatures and send the list to us for the final
>> formatting and then the presentations.  Networks should also be reminded
>> that signatures should be BY ORGANIZATIONS NOT BY INDIVIDUALS.
>>
>> Thanks again for everybody's work on this.  I think we have solid
>> document that could make an important contribution in the debate that
>> starts in a few weeks that starts at the CSD.  Best of luck with your
>> efforts.
>>
>> Michael Strauss
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>         Michael Strauss, Media Coordinator
>>             NGO CSD Steering Committee
>>
>> Two U.N. Plaza, room 1782     tel: [phone]
>> New York, N.Y. 10017          tel: [phone]
>> www.csdngo.org/csdngo          [e-mail]
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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        Michael Strauss, Media Coordinator
            NGO CSD Steering Committee

Two U.N. Plaza, room 1782     tel: [phone]
New York, N.Y. 10017          tel: [phone]
www.csdngo.org/csdngo          [e-mail]
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Petition Against the Support of Nuclear Technologies

TO THE CHAIR AND MEMBER STATES OF
THE U.N. COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT


Dear Sirs and Madams,

We, the undersigned non-governmental organizations, active in environment,
development, disarmament and human rights issues, express our deepest regret
and extreme concern that nuclear energy has been included in the draft agenda
of the ninth session of the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and
that this dangerous and unsustainable technology might, in effect, be given a
fresh start by the actions of the CSD.

We consider any focus which seems to validate nuclear energy to be against
both
the spirit of Agenda 21 and the mandate of the CSD.  Moreover, it is contrary
to the interests of developing countries which require sustainable, mostly
decentralized, low-cost energy systems, adapted both to their needs and the
availability of their capital, labor, and natural resources.  Nuclear power
will not fulfill those requirements.

Nuclear power is not a clean, safe or sustainable energy source.  Worldwide,
nuclear power has been plagued by high cost, erratic performance, endemic
technical problems, the risk of catastrophic accidents, and environmental
problems such as routine radiation releases, radioactive waste management and
the high cost of decommissioning.

However, financially-pressed nuclear vendors are eyeing the developing
world as
a ælast gaspÆ market for their products, and are stepping up their lobbying
efforts at U.N. conferences, including the Climate Change negotiations and the
CSD.

Over the past decade in most countries the overwhelming momentum of energy
policy has moved towards phasing out, or not developing nuclear energy in the
first place.  Virtually all countries agreed in November at The Hague, during
the discussions on the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change [FCCC], not
to include nuclear energy in projects of the Clean Development Mechanism [CDM]
that will be established under the Kyoto Protocol.

At their last meeting, the governments of the G8 stated their commitment to
ôencourage and facilitate investment in the development and use of sustainable
energy, underpinned by enabling domestic environments, (which) will assist in
mitigating the problems of climate change and air pollution.  To this end, the
increased use of renewable energy sources in particular will improve the
quality of life, especially in developing countries.ö

Non-G8 countries are taking similar positions.  Last year, Turkey cancelled
plans for a nuclear plant at Akkuyu, with its Prime Minister stating that,
ôthe
world is abandoning nuclear power.ö  The countries of AOSIS [the Alliance of
Small Island States] have ôreaffirmed (their) position that nuclear energy
should not be included in the CDMö. [Apia; Aug. 2000].  And, a group of twelve
Latin American nations made clear, in discussions on the Convention, that they
ôdo not accept the use of nuclear power as an energy source alternative in
project-based activities.ö [FCCC/SB/2000/4; 1 Aug. 2000].

Therefore, we urge you to preserve the integrity of the CSD process by
ensuring
that any indications of support for non-sustainable energy technologies,
particularly nuclear energy, are excluded from CSD 9 debates, exhibitions and
other activities.  The CSD should focus on promoting clean, secure and
sustainable forms of energy for the welfare of present and future generations,
as per the aim of     Agenda 21.

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:55:19 -0600
From: Karina Holyoak Wood <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Scientists' + Engineers' Pledge! Press release! Great News!

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Hi Marylia, this is excellent! Good luck tomorrow. I hope to read about
in in the newspaper...
best regards,
Karina.

marylia wrote:
>=20
> Los Alamos Study Group * Natural Resources Defense Council
> * Tri-Valley CAREs * Western States Legal Foundation
>=20
> for further information:
> Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, [phone]
> Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group, [phone]
> Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation, [phone]
>=20
> PLEDGE DRIVE ASKS SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS TO RENOUNCE WORK ON NUCLEAR,
> OTHER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION; INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO BE LAUNCHE=
D
> THIS WEEK AT THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
> MEETING IN SAN FRANCISCO
>=20
> ************
> Press Conference With Nuclear "Watchdog" Organizations and Scientists
> to be Held Saturday, February 17, 10 AM at the San Francisco Press Club=
,
> 312 Sutter Street, S.F., (note new location)
>=20
> ************
>=20
> SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Leaders of organizations that monitor the U.S. nuc=
lear
> weapons complex are asking academics, students and technical profession=
als
> attending this week's meeting of the American Association for the
> Advancement of Science (AAAS) to sign a Scientists' and Engineers' Pled=
ge
> vowing "never to participate in the design, development, testing,
> production targeting or use of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.=
.."
>=20
> "The time has come for scientists to pledge themselves to renounce work=
 on
> weapons of mass destruction," declared Dr. Joseph Rotblat, the Nobel
> Laureate and physicist who left the Manhattan Project for reasons of
> conscience. Rotblat is one of the initial signers of the Scientists' an=
d
> Engineers' Pledge.
>=20
> "I fully endorse your campaign... At a time when science plays such a
> powerful role in the life of society, when the whole destiny of mankind=
 may
> hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all
> scientists to be fully conscious of that role and conduct themselves
> accordingly. I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their
> responsibility to humanity," Rotblat wrote to the four organizations
> launching the pledge campaign, echoing his 1995 acceptance speech for t=
he
> Nobel Peace Prize.
>=20
> The Pledge sponsors will be staffing a booth at the AAAS meeting in San
> Francisco.
>=20
> The organizations originating the Pledge campaign are: Natural Resource=
s
> Defense Council (Washington, DC), Los Alamos Study Group (Santa Fe, NM)=
,
> Tri-Valley CAREs (Livermore, CA) and Western States Legal Foundation
> (Oakland, CA). "This is part of a multi-faceted, international campaign=
 to
> discourage people from working on nuclear weapons," explained Greg Mell=
o,
> director of the Los Alamos Study Group, which monitors the Department o=
f
> Energy (DOE) nuclear weapons design labs in New Mexico. "The so-called
> 'Stockpile Stewardship' program at the labs is nuclear weapons work, no
> matter how it's disguised," Mello added.
>=20
> "Scientist and engineers today need to know that the U.S. nuclear weapo=
ns
> laboratories are busy developing new, destabilizing nuclear weapons,
> including earth penetrating 'mini-nukes' and re-designed, more accurate
> long-range warheads," said Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Va=
lley
> CAREs, a Livermore, CA-based "watchdog" group that monitors activities =
at
> the DOE's nearby Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
>=20
> "The effort of these labs to recast their work on nuclear weapons as
> 'nuclear weapons science' does not change the essential fact that these
> institutions are continuing to develop nuclear weapons," declared
> Christopher Paine, senior researcher for NRDC's nuclear program.
>=20
> The groups originating this Pledge campaign will combine educational
> activities to raise awareness of the guises under which nuclear weapons
> work hides, including in the U.S. through its "Stockpile Stewardship"
> program, with a clarion call to spark the consciences of scientists and
> engineers. In addition to the Pledge, the campaign will utilize giant
> billboards and direct outreach to University and laboratory researchers.
>=20
> Dr. Julian Borrill, an astrophysicist at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley Nation=
al
> Lab and board member of the Western States Legal Foundation in Oakland,=
 CA,
> summed up the moral responsibility of today's technical professionals: =
"As
> scientists and engineers, we are in a unique position to bring about th=
e
> demise of weapons of mass destruction. These weapons cannot exist witho=
ut
> us -- we design them, we manufacture them, we test them, we maintain th=
em
> and we deploy them. We make them possible, and, if we choose to, we can
> make them impossible." Dr. Borrill will be speaking at the press confer=
ence
> Saturday.
>=20
> Other scientists joining the public interest groups in person at the pr=
ess
> conference Saturday morning include Dr. Charles Schwartz, Professor of
> Physics Emeritus at U.C. Berkeley and Dr. Andreas Toupadakis, a nuclear
> chemist who left the DOE labs last year upon the discovery that his
> research was being used for weapons. Dr. Zia Mian, a prominent research
> scientist at Princeton University, will join by phone.
>=20
> Initial signers of the Pledge include, Dr. Joseph Rotblat, Nobel Laurea=
te;
> Dr. Michio Kaku, Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics, City
> University of New York; Dr. Charles Schwartz, Professor of Physics
> Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley;  Dr. Andreas Toupadakis,
> former Staff Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory and
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Dr. Pervez Hodbhoy, Visiting
> Professor, Theory Group for Quarks, Hadrons and Nuclei, University of
> Maryland;  and, Dr. Zia Mian, Research Scientist, Princeton University.
>=20
>                                                                 -- 30 -=
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>=20
> A copy of the Scientist' and Engineers' Pledge to Renounce Weapons of M=
ass
> Destruction will be posted on the sponsoring groups' web sites. I belie=
ve
> it is already up on www.lasg.org and www.wslfweb.org. It will be on our=
 web
> site very soon! --Marylia
>=20
> Marylia Kelley
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
> 2582 Old First Street
> Livermore, CA USA 94550
>=20
> <http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!
>=20
> [phone] - is our phone
> [phone] - is our fax
>=20
> Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Va=
lley
> CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
> Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of t=
he
> Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, t=
he
> U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
> campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert.
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:03:58 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: ENDORSEMENTS NEEDED FOR OCT 13

>Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 08:21:32 -0500
>Subject: ENDORSEMENTS NEEDED FOR OCT 13
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>
>
>
>INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST TO STOP THE MILITARIZATION OF SPACE
>
>The Global Network is once again calling for an "International Day of
>Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space".
>
>We are calling for decentralized actions all over the world on October 13,
>2001.
>
>We believe that it is more important than ever to hold local protests at
>key
>Space Command bases, aerospace corporation facilities, DoE laboratories,
>NASA installations, U.S. military bases, and U.S. embassies around the
>world.  The Bush administration, and its corporate allies are pushing hard
>to deploy Star Wars (NMD, TMD, and the space-based laser.)   The October 13
>events will give the global peace movement a good opportunity to speak with
>one
>clear voice.
>
>Last year we had Keep Space for Peace events at 65 locations in 16
>countries
>and it is our hope to at least double that in 2001.
>
>We are now inviting organizations to sign on as co-sponsors and organizers
>of the October 13 day of protest.  Please let us know if you'd like your
>organization to be listed as a sponsor and the location of your planned
>event.
>
>October 13 is a good time for us to remember that the U.N.'s Outer Space
>Treaty (which bans weapons of mass destruction in the heavens) became
>operative on October 10, 1967.  The U.N. General Assembly has declared
>October 4-10 as "World Space Week" so our events should help focus
>international attention on the need to stop plans for Star Wars.
>
>We look forward to hearing from you soon.  Please help us by forwarding
>this
>message to your lists.  Thank you.
>
>
>Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
>PO Box 90083
>Gainesville, FL. 32607
>[phone]
>http://www.space4peace.org
>[e-mail]
>

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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:19:13 +1100
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) BLAIR POISED TO SAY YES TO MISSILE DEFENCE FEB 23? - WRITE NO TO HIM NOW

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE - Urgent action required.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair Poised to say 'YES'  to National Missile
defence: Only 4/5 days left to tell him 'NO'.


Dear All,
The article below speaks for itself.  Your urgent action would be helpful.

If you want to make a point to Blair concerning Missile Defence you have
4/5 days to do it in.

A sample letter is enclosed below, (after the short newsitem) with Blair's
fax number at the top. ([phone])

A letter prepared by yhe British-American Security Information Council
(BASIC) to all European MPs, MEP, and governments is also included. You may
want to use that too.

You may wish to copy your letter by email to the whole of the British
Parliament. If you want to do that the list of emails is below, right at
the end. (Some of them do bounce, so be prepared for that)

Do please take action on this it is urgent.


AMERICAN MISSILES HEADING BACK TO BRITAIN
Daily Mail Friday, February 16th
EXCLUSIVE
By David Hughes
Political Editor
Blair backs Son of Star Wars
IN a move bound to provoke massive controversy, Tony Blair is set to allow
American missiles back on to British soil.
The decision will ignite the most savage row within the Labour Party and
cause deep anger in Europe.
It is expected to be agreed in principle when the Prime Minister meets the
new President, George W Bush, in Washington next week.


Mr Blair is ready to defy critics and tell Mr Bush the U.S. can count on
British support for the controversial 'Son of Star Wars' anti-missile
strategy.



1) SUGGESTED LETTER TO TONY BLAIR
Send this if you are outside the US, especially if you are in the UK -
Please customise it creatively

To: Prime Minister Tony Blair, [phone]

Re: Please Convey Opposition to Missile Defence Scheme

Dear Tony Blair,

I am writing to you in view of your forthcoming visit to President Bush on
=46eb 23-24.

I am appalled to hear that you may actually be considering agreeing to the
use of UK facilities  for the NMD/'Star Wars' program.

Your government should not be considering any such thing.

I urge you to express as strongly as possible the opposition of the UK to
any NMD system, and to refuse use of the Menwith Hill and Fylingdales
facilities and any other UK facilities for this purpose.

The deployment of NMD and TMD (Theater Missile defence) will have serious
implications for the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Russia and China
have made it clear that they will increase their own nuclear offensive
capabilities in order to counter NMD. This will set back attempts to reduce
nuclear weapons severely and may lead to another nuclear arms race.
Serious developments in this direction are already taking place.  China has
additional concerns over the possible use of theatre missile defence  in
Taiwan.

In addition, the deployment of NMD will either completely destroy or
fundamentally weaken the Anti- Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, seen
internationally as the cornerstone of international arms control. This will
have serious consequences for maintaining and strengthening other
international agreements such as Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

NMD has been opposed by a wide range of organisations and groups, ranging
from 354 major NGOs representing millions of people worldwide, to 50 of the
US Nobel prize-winners in physics, to generals and church congregations. It
has also been opposed by every major international grouping represented in
the UN General Assembly.

=46or all of these reasons, I urge you to use all the diplomatic influence a=
t
your disposal, particularly in your forthcoming visit,  to impress upon the
incoming Bush administration the UK's opposition to the NMD system.

I also urge you to make clear to the Bush administration that your
government will refuse to
cooperate in any way with the NMD scheme, and that the use of The SBIRS
facility at Menwith Hill,Fylingdales, and other UK facilities will not be
permitted for it.

NMD is a scheme that is unlikely ever to work, against a threat that may
never materialize and that, in any case, is better dealt with in other
ways. It will cost billions better spent elsewhere, and will make
further progress toward the total and unequivocal elimination of nuclear
weapons - an objective to which the United States as well as all other
governments are committed - much more difficult, if not impossible.

I therefore urge you to impress on the US government the importance of not
proceeding with NMD, but rather of proceeding with the Bush administrations
other major committments in nuclear arms control , namely deep cuts in
warhead numbers,   and of reductions in alert status of strategic weapons
systems.

(Signed)

(Your name)


2)Letter Local MPs, Councillors and Representatives

(From Mark Bromley of BASIC)

This letter is designed to be sent to your local MP, Councillor or
Senator, asking them to demand that your national government expresses
its opposition to NMD to the Bush administration.  It is only designed
as a template so please alter it as much as you want (I apologize for
only providing an English version).

To: MP, Councillor, Senator,

Re: Pressure Government to Convey Opposition to Missile Defence Scheme

Dear MP, Councillor, Senator:

I am writing to express my dismay at US President George W. Bush=92s
desire to proceed with the development of an enlarged version of the
Pentagon=92s proposed National Missile Defence (NMD) network.  NMD is an
ill-conceived and highly destabilising response to the dangers posed by
nuclear weapons.  Its development will undermine not only the security
of the United States, but that of Europe and the world as a whole.

I therefore urge you to insist that the UK Government make clear to the
Bush administration that it is opposed to NMD, and will not participate
in the scheme.

Washington claims the proposed NMD system is designed to protect the
United States against a possible nuclear attack by a =91state of concern=92
or an accidental launch by either China or Russia.  The threat of
accidental missile launch, and the proliferation of nuclear technology,
are real dangers which the United States, along with the rest of the
world, is right to be concerned about.  However, the only way these
threats can be effectively countered is through the pursuit of
multilateral disarmament and internationally applied arms control
agreements.  The development of an NMD system will seriously destabilise

these efforts.

Russia and China have made it clear that they will increase their own
nuclear offensive capabilities, and maintain or raise their alert status

in order to counter NMD and ensure strategic parity with the United
States.  This will increase the risk of accidental launch, undermine
attempts to reduce nuclear weapons, and possibly lead to a new global
nuclear arms race.  As the United States has acknowledged, if China
increases its arsenal, it could well lead to nuclear build-ups in India
and then Pakistan.

The deployment of NMD will either completely destroy or fundamentally
weaken the Anti- Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, seen internationally as

the cornerstone of international arms control.  This would have serious
consequences for maintaining and strengthening other international
agreements such as Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).  Without these agreements in place, the number
of nuclear capable countries could increase dramatically.

Even the most ambitious NMD advocate acknowledges that there will be no
deployable system for at least six years, yet the detrimental effects of

the US desire to build a system are being felt already.  The Conference
on Disarmament is paralysed over the issue of NMD, while plans to export

missile technology, as part of the various Theatre Missile Defence (TMD)

programmes under proposal, could well signal the death knell of the
Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).

The United States is attempting to project an air of inevitability over
the question of NMD deployment, and to further coerce allied governments

with the promise of a European Missile Defence system.  But the
immaturity of the necessary technology means that deployment of any kind

of system is many years away.  In addition, the cost of European
participation in a missile defence system would be astronomical, a
burden which the United States is unlikely to want to share.

With deployment so far away, and active participation a politically
unlikely prospect, the truth is that European governments have an
excellent opportunity to sway the US decision-making process.

=46or the United Kingdom:
The United States has made it clear that participation by the United
Kingdom is crucial for plans for NMD system currently under
consideration.  Two sites on UK territory, the US bases at Fylingdales
and Menwith Hill, would be required for NMD to work.  If the United
Kingdom were to make clear that it would oppose the use of these sites
in an NMD system, it would have a sizeable diplomatic fallout.  However,

it might well lead the United States to seriously reconsider its plans.

=46or Denmark and Greenland:
The support Denmark and Greenland is essential the current US NMD
proposals.  The US Air Force Base in Thule, Greenland, is currently part

of the network of early warning radars the Pentagon wishes to upgrade
for use in the NMD system.  Thule is also named as a location for one of

the future NMD X-Band radars, designed to track incoming missiles and
guide interceptors to their targets.  Without the use of Thule, the
currently planned NMD architecture would not work, as the United States
would be unable to intercept missile attacks from Iraq and the Middle
East.

The support of the people and governments of Europe is vitally important

to US plans to develop a NMD system.  Aside from the diplomatic need to
maintain good relations with its European allies, the United States also

needs to maintain unity within NATO.  If sustained opposition to NMD is
voiced across Europe, the United States will be forced to listen.

NMD is a scheme that is unlikely ever to work against a threat which is
better dealt with in other ways.  It will cost billions better spent
elsewhere, and will make further progress toward the total and
unequivocal elimination of nuclear weapons =96 an objective to which the
United States as well as all other governments are committed =96 much more

difficult, if not impossible.

It is vital that the new administration in Washington is made to
understand that Europe is opposed to NMD and will not allow its
territory to be a part of the system.  I therefore urge you to demand
that the Government oppose NMD, and helps to persuade the Bush
administration to focus its efforts on the vital objectives of deep
reductions in warhead numbers, and reductions in the alert status of
weapons, to which it is committed.

            (Signed)

(Your name)

You may wish to send your letter by email to the entire British parliament.

If you do, here is the list of UK parliamentary emails.

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 Websites where you can get more information on letters to send to world
leaders:

The abolition 2000 website is:
http://www.abolition2000.org/action/saynotostarwars.html

The letter on the BASIC website is:
<http://www.basicint.org/NMDpage.htm#Debate in European Governments>

An online petition to stop star- wars is to be found at:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Jules/


John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
=46ax (61)(2)9517-3902  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd








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