Trident Ploughshares sends open letter to the Prime Minister
Posted By admin on April 27, 2009
Trident Ploughshares is a campaign to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a non-violent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner.
Today it announced that it had written an open letter to the Prime Minister calling for immediate UK compliance with international law on nuclear weapons.
Trident Ploughshares Press Release – Monday 27 April, 2009Trident Ploughshares has written an open letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown reminding him of Britain’s legal obligations to disarm its nuclear weapons, ahead of next month’s Preparatory Committee in New York for the 2010 Review Conference of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) [see notes 1, 2, 3]. The letter is additionally being sent to the Defence and Foreign Secretaries, and to the leaders of the major political parties in the UK.
Daniel Viesnik, a spokesperson for Trident Ploughshares and one of the signatories to the letter said:
“All around the world, people from the US President and former statesmen and military generals to rank-and-file campaigners are united in recognising the pressing need for global nuclear disarmament and ridding the world of the threat of nuclear war once and for all.
“It is time for the British Government to tally its words with its actions by no longer deploying its current Trident nuclear weapons, scrapping plans for their replacement and signing up to a Nuclear Weapons Convention – a global ban on nuclear weapons; only then will Britain have any genuine credibility on nuclear disarmament.
“The current economic crisis presents the ideal opportunity for the Government to review the advisability of wasting tens of billions of pounds on illegal, immoral and useless nuclear weapons, and instead focus limited resources on tackling climate change and meeting the genuine needs of society.”
The letter can be seen in full at www.tridentploughshares.org
Contact: tridentp.media(at)yahoo.co.uk
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