[Disarmo] Fwd: [disarmisti esigenti] Fwd: [ICAN] European Parliament again calls on all EU states to sign TPNW

[Elio Pagani <eliopaxnowar at gmail.com>]

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Subject: [disarmisti esigenti] Fwd: [ICAN] European Parliament again calls on all EU states to sign TPNW
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Buona giornata

Michele

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From: Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm, ICAN <leo at icanw.org>
Date: 2018-07-06 

Dear all,

Good news from Brussels / Strasbourg. Two days before the TPNW-anniversary, and one week before the NATO-Summit in Brussels on 11-12 July, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, in which it reiterates its call on all 28 EU Member States to sign and ratify the ban treaty. 

Lucero has provided a nice infographic that you can find and share on facebook here and on twitter here! 

The resolution text is here, and the relevant paragraph below: 

... to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons backed in 2017 by 122 UN Member States and to work for the signing and ratification of this Treaty by all UN Member States; to urgently advance nuclear disarmament both regionally and globally in line with Parliament’s resolution of 27 October 2016 which calls on all EU Member States to support the United Nations Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons; 

Finally, we also set up an event in Brussels on the eve of the NATO Summit, with Beatrice, Alexander Kmentt, and others. Find the invite below, and feel free to circulate it to your Brussels-based contacts. 

On the margins of the NATO Summit, we will also be at the "NATO engages" conference, where Bea will speak, and meet with the Belgian foreign minister, and the Prime Minister of Iceland, if the agenda allows. 

All the best,

Leo

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— Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm

EU Liaison | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

+32 (470) 101-229 | twitter: @leo_axt

​​www.icanw.org​​ 

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The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) together with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2017, are delighted to invite you to the following event on the eve of the NATO Summit:

NATO and Nuclear Weapons: Yes We Ban?
Implications of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons for extended deterrence

Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 18h00 – 19h30
Registration starts 17h30
(Light refreshments will be served after the event.)

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Rue du Taciturne 38
1000 Brussels

Speakers:

Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director, ICAN (2017 Nobel Peace Prize)

Ana Gomes MEP, S&D-PT, European Parliament

Amb. Alexander Kmentt, Austrian Ambassador to the EU Political and Security Committee, 2014 Arms Control Person of the Year

chaired by Samuel Doveri Vesterbye, Director, European Neighbourhood Council
 

The long awaited conclusion of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and its adoption by 122 countries in 2017 was an important milestone for nuclear disarmament.

All NATO member states with the exception of the Netherlands stayed away from the negotiations stating that banning nuclear weapons was incompatible with their NATO obligations. Nuclear-armed members of the alliance even claimed it would undermine the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The 2010 NATO Strategic Concept commits the alliance to “create the conditions for a world free of nuclear weapons”. However, the document declares NATO as a nuclear alliance “for as long as nuclear weapons exist”.

To sign and ratify the TPNW, NATO members may need to negotiate an opt-out from the practice of extended nuclear deterrence. Impossible? By banning the transit of nuclear weapons in peacetime, Spain, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Lithuania proved that NATO membership and incremental denuclearization are not necessarily in contradiction.

Please register online: FES Registration

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

Kind regards,
EU Office

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
38, rue du Taciturne
B -1000 Bruxelles

Tel: +32 2 234 62 90
fes at fes-europe.eu
www.fes-europe.eu