[Disarmo] Fwd: [disarmisti esigenti] Fwd: Please send your message to our March 18th meeting

[Elio Pagani <eliopaxnowar at gmail.com>]

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From: Michele Di Paolantonio <mdipaolantonio55 at gmail.com>
Date: lun 4 mar 2019, 11:37
Subject: [disarmisti esigenti] Fwd: Please send your message to our March 18th meeting
To: Icanitalia <icanitalia at googlegroups.com>, disarmisti esigenti <disarmisti-esigenti at googlegroups.com>

Vi inoltro questa richiesta pervenutaci dal Giappone, che richiede l'invio di messaggi di solidarietà entro il prossimo 10 marzo alla città giapponese di Kobe, che cerca di difendere il suo diritto di continuare a negare l'accesso al proprio porto, definito come il più grande del Giappone, ad armi nucleari, come è riuscita a fare per 44 anni!

Buona giornata

Michele

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From: kbnobu <bqcmm541 at yahoo.co.jp>
Date: lun 4 mar 2019 alle ore 07:57
Subject: Please send your message to our March 18th meeting
To: Michele Di Paolantonio <mdipaolantonio55 at gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

 

This year, the city of Kobe will mark the 44th anniversary of “Hikaku Kobe Hoshiki” or Nuclear-Free Kobe Formula, which denies entry of nuclear-armed warships into our harbor. We will be celebrating this year’s anniversary by holding a meeting on March 18^th. Please send us messages of solidarity.  Any short comments will be welcome.  Please send them before 10th March so that we will be able to introduce them to the audience.  Please pass this request onto others as well.

 

The port of Kobe is one of the biggest ports in Japan.  It is under the management of the local government as are other civil ports in the country.  The Mayor of Kobe has authority over the port and has to ask all warships of any nationality to submit certification that they are not carrying nuclear weapons.  Without the submission, entry to the port is denied. This procedure, based on the resolution adopted unanimously by the Kobe City Assembly on March 18th 1975, is called Hikaku Kobe Hoshiki.

 

Japan has "three non-nuclear principles" as its national policy, which is "not to possess, not to manufacture and not to allow the entry" of nuclear weapons.  “Hikaku Kobe Hoshiki” is exactly what Japan should do to exercise this policy.  For the past 44 years, all foreign warships entering the port have submitted nuclear-free certification.  Interestingly the US, while repeatedly entering other ports of Japan to reinforce the Japan-US military alliance, has stopped port calls at Kobe because of its "neither confirm nor deny" policy on the status of nuclear weapons on its ships. 

 

For a long time, the US has been demanding that Kobe abandon its nuclear-free policy and allow US warships to enter the port.  The pressure is getting heavier.  Prime Minister Abe and Japan's ruling parties are desperately attempting to consolidate the Japan-US military alliance and to revise Japanese Constitution in order to support US wars.  However, the port of Kobe gets in the way.  Now “Hikaku Kobe Hoshiki” is nothing but a big obstacle to pursue their plans.

 

Friends, under the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, Japan hosts more than 130 US military bases all across the country and its civil ports are frequently used by the US in a self-serving manner.  In Okinawa, they are constructing a new U.S. military base in Henoko against indigenous Okinawans, who have overwhelmingly voted against it in a historic referendum. 

 

We do not need US military bases.  We defend our war-renouncing constitution. We will have our national government to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibitions of Nuclear Weapons.

Please give us your support and solidarity for our struggle for a world free from nuclear weapons.

 

For Peace,

Shushi KAJIMOTO

(General Secretary)

Hyogo Council Against A & H Bombs

e-mail; bqcmm541 at yahoo.co.jp

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