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CONTENTS of WNII No. 47/1999

• Member Organisations' + Project Groups' News:
  • Upcoming INES Meetings
  • USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), The Sunflower, No. 31, December 1999
  • USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), "Waging Peace Worldwide"
  • Two articles by Dr David Krieger
  • "The SEU TIMES" No 8 - October 1999
• Nuclear Weapons:
  • NATO defence-ministers get summons for illegal nuclear weapon policy - US nuclear weapons have to be withdrawn from Europe
• Sustainable Development:
  • Biosafety references
• INES Web- and Email Service

MEMBER ORGANISATIONS' AND PROJECT GROUPS' NEWS

Upcoming INES Meetings
For details contact < >

• Next INES Executive Committee Meeting: Dortmund, Germany, 21 January 2000
• Next INES 2000 Congress Preparatory Committee Meeting: Dortmund, Germany, 22-23 January 2000
• Next INES Council Meeting: Stockholm, Sweden, 10-12 June 2000 (to be confirmed)

USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), The Sunflower, No. 31, December 1999 http://www.wagingpeace.org/sf/index.html  

The latest edition of The Sunflower covers the following:

• Non-Proliferation: UN General Assembly Passes Nuclear Disarmament Resolutions
  • Yeltsin Signs Test Ban Treaty Bill
  • A Nuclear-Free Austria By Federal Act
  • Aotearoa/New Zealand Elects Strong Anti-Nuclear Prime Minister
  • Rocky Flats Plutonium Lab Demolished
• Y2K, Myth or Reality? Too Soon To Tell: Brownouts, 911 Breakdowns, Misguided Missiles
  • Nuclear Power Plants Lack Y2K Compliance
  • World Parliaments Urge Nuclear Powers to Take Weapons Off Alert For Y2K
  • Action Alert: Fax a Letter to Clinton to De-Alert Nuclear Weapons to Prevent a Catastrophic Launch Induced By Y2K
• US Anti-Ballistic Missile System: Another Expensive Rush to Failure Says Pentagon Study
• Protests at WTO Seattle Summit: Demonstrators Demand Fair Trade Not Free Trade
• Radiation Victims: Three Mile Island Lawsuits Can Proceed
• Nuclear Tests: US Performed Subcritical Nuclear Test in November

USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), "Waging Peace Worldwide"

The latest issue (Vol 9, No 3 Fall/Winter 1999) of this NAPF Journal has just been issued. The main part consists of 11 features contributed by prominent persons who present their ideas and visions about the "Hope for Humanity's Future." Also in this issue: articles on nuclear alert, and a lot of information regarding the Foundation itself.

Two articles by Dr David Krieger

Recently, INES Vice Chair David Krieger who is also the President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, has published the following two articles:

• A Twelve Step Program To End Nuclear Weapons Addiction
• The New Millennium: The Past as Prologue

To obtain the articles contact < >

"The SEU TIMES" No 8 - October 1999

"The SEU TIMES" is the electronic newsletter of the "Socio-Ecological Union", one of the Russian INES member organsiations. Its latest issue has the following contents:

• A City Sold to Lockheed-Martin
• Children celebrate victory over the dam
• The Volga Days 99
• The Save Pechora Committee has celebrated its 10th Anniversary
• Dnestr the transboundary value
• "Green Lungs" of Moscow saved
• The Earthworm is the most unusual animal

Editor: Sviatoslav Zabelin < > Previous issues of "The SEU Times" may be found at "The Online Gadfly": http://www.igc.org/gadfly 

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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

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

NATO defence-ministers get summons for illegal nuclear weapon policy US nuclear weapons have to be withdrawn from Europe

At the beginning of the NATO ministerial meeting at Brussels on 2 December, a delegation of the international peace movement handed summons to all defence-ministers condemning the illegal nuclear policy. The planned non-violent peace-vigil was immediately broken up by the Brussels police force who didn't tolerate any presence of the international peace movement near NATO headquarters. Following the first day meeting the twenty international peace campaigners reacted shocked and disappointed to this denial to freedom of speech, as well as to the announcement of Mr. Cohen, the US State Secretary of Defence which followed later on the day. Mr. Cohen denied officially the rumour spread last month by the French news agency AFP, announcing the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons out of Europe.

"This announcement by Mr. Cohen misses any military reality, and is outdated. It is time for NATO to wake up to the post-cold war reality. The statement by Mr. Cohen is confirming the arrogant position of US Defence policy, while at the same time exposing once again the weakness of the governments of other NATO member states" declared Pol D'Huyvetter, a spokesperson  For Mother Earth International. The peace campaigner stated that the withdrawal of the 150 tactical US nuclear weapons from Europe will remain one of their main goals in the near future. They immediately announced new parliamentary initiatives and non-violent direct actions at NATO nuclear weapon bases to enforce international law on the illegal nuclear policy of the alliance. They also oppose any plans for a European nuclear deterrent.

In the summons which were handed at NATO headquarters all NATO defence ministers are confronted with the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. As stated in the summons, NATO and its member states are acting illegally because it is:

• retaining the option to use nuclear weapons first in future conflicts; issuing orders to its military personnel to prepare for the illegal use of nuclear weapons;
• making conditional plans to use, through its member nuclear weapon states, a stockpile of nuclear weapons which, because of their yield, would necessarily violate international humanitarian law;
• compounding its violation of international law by admitting three new members into its nuclear alliance and therefore implicating them in its illegal nuclear planning process;
• condoning the consistent opposition by its member nuclear weapon states to moves towards the global elimination of nuclear weapons.

In addition, NATO States will continue to contravene Articles I and II of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as long as the US maintains nuclear weapons in European NATO countries and involves European nationals in training for their delivery.

[Source: For Mother Earth International Press Release, 2 December 1999]

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Biosafety references

The following are websites operated by the Italian-based "International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)":

• "Scientific News" page: http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/biosafety/bsfdata3.htm
  • It contains the references added with the last update of the "Biosafety" database, together with links to the corresponding full-record pages. "Biosafety" is a scientific bibliographic database on "Biosafety and Risk assessment in biotechnology". The database is updated monthly and contains, to date, more than 2000 scientific articles (full reference + abstract), published on international scientific journals since 1990, selected and classified by ICGEB scientists for the main topics of concern for the environmental release of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).
• "Biosafety Regulation in the European Union": http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/biosafety/bsfeurop.htm
  • Each directive / decision / regulation is linked to its full-text page on the European server
• Official Databases for environmental releases of GMOs: http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/biosafety/bsfrel.htm
  • So far, ICGEB provides links to OECD (BioTrack); Australia (GMAC); Argentina (CONABIA); Brazil (CTNBio); Canada (CFIA); EU (JRC); Germany (RKI) and USA (USDA/ISB). Please, help in linking new available databases: mailto:

INES WEB AND E-MAIL SERVICE

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