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''Challenges for Science and Engineering in the 21st Century''

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CONTENTS of WNII No. 41/1999

• Member Organisations' + Project Groups' News:

  • Japan Scientists' Association (JSA)

  • More on the CTBT defeat by the US Senate

  • Re: INESAP Information Bulletin No. 17

•  Nuclear Weapons:

  • Abolition 2000 Grassroots Newsletter October 1999

  • Draft Letter to Tony Blair

• Briefings:

  • New publications re WTO and MAI

  • Science and Technology Update list

• Conferences, Meetings, Seminars:

  • UPDATE: All Africa Peace Conference (AAPC)

MEMBER ORGANISATIONS' AND PROJECT GROUPS' NEWS

Japan Scientists' Association (JSA)

The JSA reports in the latest issue of "The Bulletin of JSA" (No. 72/September 25, 1999) about the last General Assembly held in May this year, on an international conference by Student Pugwash USA, and about nationwide gatherings as well as districts' and branches' activities (the JSA consists of 47 branches which are grouped into 9 districts).
Also, the article "The Obuchi Cabinet Jeopardizes Democracy" is being published.

JSA Fax: (81-3) 3813 2363 [no email indicated]

More on the CTBT defeat by the US Senate

• The International Peace Bureau (IPB), of which INES is a member, issued a statement "Peace Bureau warns of serious consequences of Senate rejection of Test Ban Treaty" which calls " on all governments - north and south, nuclear and non-nuclear - to redouble their commitments to disarmament and to take up the leadership role abandoned by the USA. The CTBT must be ratified - and soon - by all the powers concerned. We urge civil society organisations to protest loud and clear at this grave failure of responsibility."      For the Statement in full, contact IPB at:  
• INES member Alice Slater (USA) has written a yet to be published - Letter to the Editor of the "New York Times" which says, among other things:
  "The only way to guarantee US security from nuclear terror abroad is to move promptly to negotiations to make nuclear weapons taboo -- banning them in a verifiable, international treaty for their abolition, just as the world had done for chemical and biological weapons. That is the only thing that will protect us, and all of humanity as well, now that
  the flawed test ban, with its provocative promise of new weapons development funds for the labs, has been so ignominiously defeated."  Contact Alice Slater at:  < >
• Bahig Nassar (Egypt), member of INES and INESAP, has issued a statement in his capacity as coordinator of the Arab Coordination Centre of NGOs. Ask him for the English version of this document:

Re: INESAP Information Bulletin No. 17

Dr. Juergen Scheffran informs that the complete issue of the INESAP Information Bulletin No. 17 is donwloadable as a pdf-file from: http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ze/ianus/inesap/current.html  

[NOTE that for reading and printing of pdf-files you need an Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you need a URL from which you can download this software, please let me know; the ed.]

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Abolition 2000 homepage: http://www.abolition2000.org

Grassroots News: http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/news/  

Abolition 2000 Grassroots Newsletter October 1999

This is to inform you about the latest issue which carries, among other things, the following articles:

• Number of Arrests Rise in Protest Against British Trident System
• BMD ( Ballistic Missile Defense): The Phantom Menace
• New Democratic Party of Canada Adopts Resolution on Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
• Time to WASH (World Atomic Safety Holiday Campaign) Away the Y2K Nuclear Threat! (see also: http://www.enviroweb.org/nukenet/   ; http://www.nirs.org)
• Long-awaited US Campaign Launched in Ann Arbor, MI [report about the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Meeting]
• Indecent Explosives: Statistics on Nuclear Weapons States
• Commentary: US Senate Failure to Ratify CTBT

Also in this issue:

• Listing new Abolition 2000 organizations
• Actions You Can Take
• Calendar Events
• Tip of the Month

For a Newsletter copy, contact Carah Lynn Ong, Coordinator, Abolition 2000: 

Draft Letter to Tony Blair

Commander Robert D Green, Royal Navy (Retired) and Chair of the World Court Project UK, has recently drafted a Letter to Tony Blair which, by referring to the British Government announcement of July 1998 it would cut Britain's nuclear arsenal by a third to less than 200 Warheads, urges the British Prime Minister "to call on the other leaders of the nuclear states to join you in immediately opening negotiations on a treaty to eliminate" nuclear weapons.  You can get this Draft Letter from:
< >   (refer to the subject line "Going for Blair")

BRIEFINGS

New publications re WTO and MAI

STOP PRESS: With regard to the forthcoming WTO Ministerial Meeting at Seattle, USA, a new website has been set up:  http://www.seattle99.org  If you have suggestions and additions for the page, contact Bill Aal at:   

• Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza (Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch): "Whose Trade Organization? Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy" (Foreword by Ralph Nader)   Price: US$18.50 (includes shipping and handling).   Available through: Public Citizen, Publications Department, 1600 20th Street, NW, Washington DC, 20009, USA; Or order form at:  http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/publications/wtobook.htm  
• Mark Weisbrot (Research Director, The Preamble Center): "Globalization: A Primer"  Price: US$2.50; Available through      Will also be available shortly at:  http://www.preamble.org/globalprimer.htm  
• Friends of the Earth: "The World Trade Organization and the Environment: A Citizen Action Guide"  Available through        Also posted on the Friends of the Earth website at:  http://www.foe.org/international/wto  

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CONFERENCES - MEETINGS - SEMINARS

Events listed here are being published only once due to limited space. Changes, however, will be taken into account (marked with ''UPDATE'')

UPDATE: All Africa Peace Conference (AAPC)
Main theme: "Citizens' Agenda for Peace, Health and Justice in the 21st Century"

• Date: 4-7 November 1999
• Venue: Nairobi, Kenya

For programme details, contact Programme Co-ordinator Mr. Opiyo Makoude:

For details on registration and accommodation, contact: Paul Saoke
Or:  Sarah Njeri

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