Anbei der offene Brief der International Friedenskonferenz aus Washington D.C. an Barack Obama. Ein Bekannter, welcher an dieser Konferenz teilgenommen hat, liess mir das Schreiben zukommen. In Anbetracht der Tatsache, dass mit den jährlichen weltweiten Rüstungsausgaben sämtliche Menschheitsprobleme wie Klimawandel, Hunger, Wasserversorgung und Zugang zu Bildung gelöst werden könnten, macht die aktuelle Politik der USA und anderer Grossmächte stutzig. Viel Spass beim Lesen trotzdem.
Nov. 15, 2009, Washington DC
Dear Mr President :
We have two requests to make of you. In just a few weeks you will travel to Oslo to receive the world’s most distinguished award, the Nobel Peace Prize. In order to underline the solemn nature of this award and the responsibilities it implies, we call on you to declare the week devoted to the award ceremonies (Dec. 4 -11) a period of global cease-fire, initiated by the United States in Afghanistan and elsewhere. It would be an historic step, as was the ‘Christmas Truce’ in the First World War.
Your election as President of the USA and your many eloquent speeches, have given rise to extraordinary expectations. Among the most important is the commitment you have expressed to achieving a world without nuclear weapons. We therefore call on you to take bold steps now to open negotiations on their complete elimination. We already have the road maps, including the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention; it is a matter of political will, and leadership. We are looking to you, the Nobel peace laureate 2009, to take those steps. With the Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty coming up in May next year, this is the ideal moment at which to make such an announcement. We are sure that it would receive a positive response among other nuclear states. And it would generate tremendous support among the peoples of the world, who continue to live under the nuclear sword of Damocles, 20 years on from the end of the Cold War.
This letter is endorsed by the participants at the annual conference of the International Peace Bureau (Nobel Peace Prize 1910), under the title Rolling Back Militarism: a Task for the Global Movement. The event was held on Nov. 14-15, 2009 at Georgetown University, Washington DC, with participation from IPB member organizations and partners from the USA, Canada, Sweden, Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt, Finland, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Spain, Thailand, Japan, New Zealand, France, Argentina, Liberia, Syria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya.
Colin Archer, IPB Secretary-General
Tomas Magnusson, IPB President
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