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Including the release of an international statement and reports on actions by mayors and parliamentarians calling on the States Parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty to commence
negotiations for nuclear disarmament and international control of all fissile materials
U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich (D, Ohio),
Member and former Co-Chair of the US House of Representatives Progressive Caucus,
Lead sponsor of US House resolutions on nuclear disarmament and peaceful uses of outer space;
Taib Ali Taib Bajaber;
Senator Douglas Roche;
Mayor of Mombasa, Kenya,
Chair of the Middle Powers Initiative
Aaron Tovish,
Alyn Ware,
Mayors for Peace,
Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament International,
Campaign Manager, Global Coordinator
Sponsored by:
Cosponsored by the Mission of New Zealand to the United Nations
Mayors and parliamentarians cooperate for a nuclear weapons free world:
The following statement was released by mayors and members of parliaments and congresses, meeting in conjunction with the 7th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, and has been endorsed by the mayors and national legislators listed below:
As mayors and legislators we have a role to protect the security of citizens living within our jurisdictions and to protect our localities for future generations.
Such security is not advanced when there remain 30,000 nuclear weapons, many of which are deployed and ready for use at short notice. The risk of nuclear weapons use - by accident,
design or miscalculation - is increasing due to the proliferation of nuclear weapons to new States, the possibility of non-State access to nuclear weapons and bomb-building materials, and
the expanded nuclear weapons use doctrines of the nuclear weapon States.
Regardless of where nuclear weapons are targeted or detonated, or whether they are used by terrorist organisations or State militaries, no-one would escape the calamitous consequences of
a nuclear attack. Even cities that are not the direct brunt of an attack would feel the global economic, social and medical repercussions, which would dwarf those of 9/11. Any nuclear
weapons use would cause unimaginable devastation requiring massive aid, global effects from nuclear fall-out and a rise in refugees seeking to escape the most contaminated regions.
The only way to prevent nuclear weapons use is to eliminate all nuclear weapons as mandated by Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the 1996 International Court of Justice
Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons. Mayors for Peace have provided a vision for the achievement of a nuclear weapons free world by 2020.
Therefore, we the undersigned mayors and parliamentarians, call for the commencement of negotiations which would culminate in the comprehensive abolition and elimination of nuclear
weapons and the international control of nuclear materials to prevent clandestine bomb-making.
If a small number of States continue to prevent such negotiations being initiated at the Conference on Disarmament and also at the NPT Review Conferences, then governments should be
encouraged to find an alternative track to nuclear disarmament as was done with the Landmines Convention.
The overwhelming majority of citizens in our cities, countries and around the world support the abolition of these ultimate weapons of mass destruction, and we mayors and legislators have
a responsibility to use our authority to ensure the implementation of this imperative.
Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan
Senator Lyn Allison, Australia
Senator Abacca Anjain-Maddison, Marshall Islands
Chris Balance MSP, Scotland
im Barnett MP, New Zealand
Senator Andrew Bartlett, Australia
Angelika Beer, Member of the European Parliament (MEP)
Senator Stefano Boco, Italy
Hartmut Bopp, Mayor of Aarbergen, Germany
Rosa Maria Bonŕs i Pahisa MP, Spain
Senator Massimo Bonavita, Italy
Senator Bob Brown, Australia
Dr. Charles Yaw Brempong-Yeboah MP, Ghana
Senator Giovanni Brunale, Italy
Senator Paolo Brutti, Italy
Jim Burch, Mayor of Palo Alto, California, USA
Raphael Chegeni MP, Tanzania
Arthur Chesterfield Evans MP, Australia
Senator Nando Dalla Chiesa, Italy
Ian Cohen MP, Australia
Frank Cook MP, United Kingdom
Raffaele Cortesi, Mayor of Lugo (Ra) Italy
Senator Fiorello Cortiana, Italy
Libby Davies MP, Canada
Bruno de Lille, Deputy Mayor, Belgium
Elettra Deiana MP, Italy
Roel Deseyn, MP, Belgium
Senator Anna Donati, Italy
Jill Evans MEP
Senator Antonello Falomi, Italy
Senator Angelo Flammia, Italy
Pietro Folena MP, Italy
Daniel Fontaine, Mayor of Aubagne, France
Deb Foskey MP, Australia
Monica Frassoni, Member of the European Parliament
Antonelle Friestein, Representing the Mayor of Viorglio, Italy
Senator Pierre Galand, Belgium
Eloi Glorieux MP, Belgium
Senator Leopoldo Di Girolamo, Italy
Councillor Brian Gregson, for the Convener, Shetland Islands Council
Senator Brian Greig, Australia
Edith Cuttat Gyger, Municipalité de Delémont
Sylvia Hale MP, Australia
David Hammerstein MEP
Rebecca Harms MEP
Satu Hassi, MEP
Lotta Hedström MP, Sweden
Satoshi Inoue MP, Japan
Tadashi Inuzuka MP, Japan
Senator Nuccio Iovene, Italy
Marie Anne Isler Béguin, MEP
Jenny Jones, Representing the Mayor of London
Sandra Kanck, Australia
Seiichi Kaneta, MP, Japan
Sergey Kolesnikov MP, Russia
Rep Dennis Kucinich, USA
Jean Lambert, MEP
Hallgeir Langeland MP, Norway
Carmen Lawrence MP, Australia
Hon. Jack Layton MP, Canada
Keith Locke MP, Aotearoa-New Zealand
Senator Aleandro Longhi, Italy
Caroline Lucas, Member of the European Parliament
Lynn MacLaren MP, Australia
Magnar Bergo, MP Norway
Senator Luigi Malabarba, Italy
Dr Wayne Mapp MP, New Zealand
Catherine Margate, Mayor of Malakoff, France
Dee Margetts MP, Australia
Senator Luigi Marino, Italy
Tony Martin MP, Canada
Senator Francesco Martone, Italy
Brian Masse MP, Canada
Alexa McDonough MP, Canada
Luisa Morgantini, Member of European Parliament
Senator Andrew Murray, Australia
Masaharu Nakagawa MP, Japan
Senator Kerry Nettle, Australia
Gérard Onesta, Vice-President European Parliament
President Filippo Penati, Province of Milan
Senator Oskar Peterlini, Italy
Ingrid Pira, Mayor, Belgium
Senator Leo Platvoet, Netherlands
Bob Price, Lord Mayor of Oxford, United Kingdom
Darren Ray, Mayor Port Phillip, Australia
Lee Rhiannon MP, Australia
Senator Aden Ridgeway, Australia
Senator Natale Ripamonti, Italy
Cllr Bill Risby, former Lord Mayor, Manchester City Council, England
Ross Robertson MP, New Zealand
Matt Robson MP, New Zealand
Senator Emeritus Douglas Roche, Canada
Raúl Romera MEP
Claes Roxbergh MP, Sweden
Senator Piero di Siena, Italy
Bill Siksay MP, Canada
Hon Nick Smith MP, New Zealand
Warren Snowdon MP, Australia
Senator Tommaso Sodano, Italy
Bart Staes, MEP
Senator Natasha Stott Despoja, Australia
Tsuneo Suzuki MP, Japan
Adolfo R. Taylhardat, Member of the Parliament of Latin America
Koen T'Sijen, MP, Belgium Senator Patrick Vankrunkelsven, Belgium
Senator Luigi Viviani, Italy
Senator Tana de Zulueta, Italy
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