ACDN - Action of Citizens for Nuclear Disarmament
logo ACDN banniere ACDNVisiter ACDN
Accueil-Home ACDN Contact ACDN Consulter le plan du site - SiteMap Other Version
vous etes ici Homepage > News > Communiqués > In Geneva, Mikhail Gorbachev has just launched a new appeal for nuclear disarmament.
ACDN, What is it ?

News
Communiqués
External sources
Letters from ACDN
News Articles

Actions
2nd RID-NBC
3rd RID-NBC
Campaign "The Very Last Atom!"
Gathering for a Livable World

Petitions

Correspondance
International

Medias

Background papers

EUROPE

French Elections
News of the Presidential Campaign

In Geneva, Mikhail Gorbachev has just launched a new appeal for nuclear disarmament.


Published 2 September 2013

- Geneva, 2 September 2013
- from our special correspondent

Green Cross International, The NGO founded by Mikhail Gorbachev in the wake of the Rio Summit, is today celebrating its 20th anniversary in Geneva, where it is based. At the same time as these festivities, the body founded by the former Soviet President is holding its annual meeting.

This morning, during a public session led by the current Green Cross chairman, Alexander Likhotal, some 15 eminent speakers, including Lech Walesa and other Nobel laureates, addressed the assembly. They all thanked Mr Gorbachev warmly for the work that he and Green Cross have been doing for peace, justice, the environment and the safeguarding of the planet.

Mr Gorbachev himself, now 82, spoke in Russian without notes for half an hour, touching on numerous topics related to the survival of humankind and exhorting everyone to mobilise in this cause. Towards the end of his speech he cried out:

"Getting rid of the nuclear threat is our priority. Therefore today for this 20th anniversary I am launching an appeal to everyone to join some movement that is opposed to war and nuclear weapons and the new arms race."

In addition, he denounced the new kind of distance war that is currently being developed, for example through the use of drones. And he called on all international actors to come together to resolve at last the problems that make the Middle East a veritable powder keg.

It was back in January 1986 that Mikhail Gorbachev, then head of the USSR, launched the appeal: "No nuclear weapons by the year 2000 !". Its first result was the signing by Ronald Reagan and himself, in December 1987, of the Washington Treaty which rid Europe of “Intermediate Nuclear Forces”, in particular the SS20s and the Pershings. That was the start of the end of the Cold War.

Green Cross International continues its work now and into the future. Its slogan is: “Give Humanity a Chance, Give the Earth a Future” In French: “Donnez une chance à l’Humanité, Donnez un avenir à la Terre”.


L'argent est le nerf de la paix ! ACDN vous remercie de lui faire un DON

Other versions
print Printable version
pdfPDF Version


Share through social networks

Also in this section

Nobel Prize for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Claude Piéplu, artist, big-hearted man, friend and activist for Nuclear Disarmament passed away
Take the High Road out of War
Nuclear democracy
France: We have to choose between the atom bomb and the fight against terrorism
Appeal for a Just and Livable World
Nuclear issues, 25th April 2009 : 3 items of good news and 3 bad.
France under Threat from NBCs
Nobel Peace Prize award to Mohammed El-Baradei and the IAEA
Outbreak of "American Fever" in Saintes

visites :  1328126

Home | Contact | Site Map | Admin |

Site powered by SPIP
design et fonction Easter-Eggs