Letter to President Macron: The Paris Peace Forum and the Question of Disarmament
Saintes, 31 October 2018
Monsieur le Président,
For the centenary of the Armistice of 1918 you will soon inaugurate the Paris Peace Forum, which you set up for 11-13 November. ACDN would have liked to have a stand at it, so as to publicise the project we have pursued since 1996: a referendum on France’s participation in the abolition of nuclear weapons. But the fee of 2000 euros required of all exhibitors deterred us. AXA or BNP-Paribas (the bank that invests 7 billion dollars into (...)
France, her Bomb, the World and Us Open Letter to Madame de Sarnez, President of the National Assembly’s Commission for Foreign Affairs
Published in French on 12 October 2018
Saintes, 12 October 2018
Madame la Présidente,
On 8 October 2018, you were a guest on the Chaîne Parlementaire, for the programme « Follow-up» entitled : « France : a powerful voice? ».
During that broadcast you mentioned the perception that, in your view, foreigners perceive France as the bearer of the values of "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity". Shortly after that, you added that France was also seen as a "nuclear power" - which you seemed to (...)
Letter to the President of the French Republic 6-9 August: No Flame for Nuclear Disarmament
To President Emmanuel Macron
copies to the PM, and to the Ministers of the Interior, of Ecological and Solidary Transition, of Justice, of Europe and Foreign Affairs, of the Armed Forces
Subject: Nuclear Disarmament
Attachments: list of 126 parliamentarians who signed a draft bill to organize a referendum on France’s participation in the abolition of nuclear weapons (April 2017)
Monsieur le Président,
On the initiative of our association, the city of Saintes made a commitment nearly (...)
