9th NPT Review Conference No Reply to the Letter we sent to Laurent Fabius on the Position of France
The 9th Review Conference for the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ended on 22 May 2015 without any agreement on a common declaration.
The chief obstacle encountered by the official delegations to this quinquennial conference was the huge gap between the wishes – or rather the ill-will – of the Nuclear Weapons States (NWS), supported by their close allies, and the expectations of most of the Non-Nuclear Weapons States (NNWS) for tangible nuclear disarmament measures. Added to that was the (...)
International Appeal OPEN LETTER to the President of the French Republic For a referendum on France’s participation in the abolition of nuclear weapons
One may find below:
THE TEXT OF THE LETTER TO BE SIGNED
AN INTERNATIONAL APPEAL by
Colin ARCHER, General Secretary of the International Peace Bureau (Nobel Peace Prize)
Jean-Marie MATAGNE, Ph.D, President of ACDN (Action des Citoyens pour le Dsarmement Nuclaire), Member of the Abolition 2000 Global Council
Philippe MEIRIEU, Professor at the Universit de Lyon II, Vice-president of the Rgion Rhne-Alpes, President of the Federal Council of the EELV party (Europe Ecologie-Les Verts)
Patrick MO
Letter to President Hollande, the Prime Minister and the ministers of the new government
18 May 2012
Monsieur le Président,
Monsieur le Premier ministre,
Mesdames, Messieurs les ministres,
You govern France. You have been elected, or appointed and mandated to be leaders of change in the direction of liberty, equality and fraternity. Permit me therefore to draw your attention to a change that is sorely needed but which, nevertheless, was not at all debated during the presidential election campaign.
For over fifty years France has possessed nuclear weapons. Today there (...)