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ABOLITION 2000 is a network of over 2000 organizations in more than 90 countries world wide working for a global treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons
The Mission
In April 1995, the 25-year-old Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was reviewed at the United Nations to evaluate whether it should be extended. Activists from around the world were dismayed that, in renewing the treaty, nations had left the issue of nuclear abolition off the agenda. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from dozens of countries worldwide responded by writing the founding document of Abolition 2000, setting out an eleven-point program for nuclear disarmament and calling for negotiations to eliminate nuclear weapons. Over 2,000 organizations in more than 90 countries have now enrolled and are actively participating in various working groups to accomplish Abolition 2000's mission.
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“Sunflowers instead
of missiles in the soil would ensure
peace for future
generations”
U.S. Secretary of Defence William Perry, as he joined Russian and Ukrainian
defence ministers to
plant sunflowers
on a former missile base
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Abolition 2000 is an international global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons within a time-bound framework. It is open to all organizations endorsing the Abolition 2000 Statement. The Network aims at providing groups concerned with nuclear issues a forum for the exchange of information and the development of joint initiatives. The Abolition 2000 Network meets once a year and communicates on an ongoing basis via a number of list serves and through conferences, teleconferencing, and periodic mailings.
At the 2003 Annual Meeting during the NPT preparatory conference in Geneva, Abolition 2000 launched a new initiative to work with the Mayor of Hiroshima on the "Mayors for Peace" program. The program aims at bringing mayors from around the world together in support of completing negotiations for nuclear disarmament by 2005. Abolition 2000 is also working to register at least 2,000 NGOs at its April 2004 Annual Meeting in New York coinciding with the annual NPT preparatory conference in order to attain massive anti-nuclear participation and press the issue of disarmament with the public and with governments.
For more information, contact:
The Rideau Institute
Abolition 2000 Secretariat
63 Sparks St., Suite 608,
Ottawa ON K1P 5A6 Canada
tel:+1-613-565-9449
e:mail: asalloum@rideauinstitute.ca
www.rideauinstitute.ca
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