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Call for immediate UK compliance with international law on nuclear weapons

Trident Ploughshares | 28.04.2009 12:19 | Anti-militarism

Trident Ploughshares Press Release - Monday 27 April, 2009

Trident Ploughshares has written an open letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown reminding him of Britain's legal obligations to disarm its nuclear weapons, ahead of next month's Preparatory Committee in New York for the 2010 Review Conference of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) [see notes 1, 2, 3]. The letter is additionally being sent to the Defence and Foreign Secretaries, and to the leaders of the major political parties in the UK.


Daniel Viesnik, a spokesperson for Trident Ploughshares and one of the signatories to the letter said:
"All around the world, people from the US President and former statesmen and military generals to rank-and-file campaigners are united in recognising the pressing need for global nuclear disarmament and ridding the world of the threat of nuclear war once and for all.

"It is time for the British Government to tally its words with its actions by no longer deploying its current Trident nuclear weapons, scrapping plans for their replacement and signing up to a Nuclear Weapons Convention - a global ban on nuclear weapons; only then will Britain have any genuine credibility on nuclear disarmament.

"The current economic crisis presents the ideal opportunity for the Government to review the advisability of wasting tens of billions of pounds on illegal, immoral and useless nuclear weapons, and instead focus limited resources on tackling climate change and meeting the genuine needs of society."

ENDS

Notes:

1. Trident Ploughshares is a campaign initiated in 1998 to disarm Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system in a nonviolent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner.

 http://www.tridentploughshares.org

2. The letter can be seen in full here:
 http://www.tridentploughshares.org/article1552

3. Details of 2009 NPT Preparatory Committee, 4–15 May, New York
 http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/legal/npt/2009index.html


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  1. some of us don't want to disarm — Lacy
  2. Lacy — Nicol