Global Civil Society Demands Bolder Action from NPT States Parties – ARABIC

 المجتمع المدني الدولي يُطالب بإجراءات أكثر جُرأة من الدول الأطراف في معاهدة عدم انتشار الأسلحة النووية

بقلم: جامشيد بروح

جنيف (IDN) أصدرت مجموعة من المنظمات غير الحكومية الراعية للسلام الدولي والمحلي ونزع السلاح النووي بيانًا مشتركًا تحثُّ فيه القادة الحكوميين -وخاصةً هؤلاء التابعين للدول التي تمتلك سلاحًا نوويًّا وحلفائهم- على سرعة التصرف والتعاون معًا من أجل الوفاء بالوعود التي لم يُوفَ بها حيال الحدِّ من المخاطر النووية وإحراز المزيد من التقدُّم في عملية نزع السلاح النووي إلى جانب تنفيذ التزامهم بشأن “القضــــاء التـــــام على الأسلحة النووية”. وقد تزامن إصدار البيان الصادر في 11 مايو مع الذكرى الخامسة والعشرين لتمديد معاهدة عدم الانتشار إلى أجل غير مُسمَّى.

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Postponement of NPT Review Conference Offers an Opportunity

Antagonisms, Conflicts and Nuclear Risks After the Pandemic

A Pugwash Document

Photo: Gustavo Zlauvinen of Argentina, president-designate of the 2020 NPT Review Conference (meanwhile postponed to 20201), addresses the UN Security Council in February. Credit: Evan Schneider/UN).

Signed on May 6 by Sergio Duarte (President of Pugwash), Paolo Cotta Ramusino (Secretary-General of Pugwash), Steven Miller (Chair of the Pugwash Executive Committee), and Saideh Lotfian (Chair of the Pugwash Council). Download a copy [PDF]. As of May 10, 135 eminent personalities including ministers had endorsed the document.

ROME | GENEVA | WASHINGTON | LONDON (IDN) – The new coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has already inflicted great damage on a number of nations and on the world at large, resulting not only in many tens of thousands of deaths but also in economic, financial and social crises. [2020–05-15]

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Global Civil Society Demands Bolder Action from NPT States Parties

By Jamshed Baruah

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GENEVA (IDN) – A diverse network of national and international peace and nuclear disarmament non-governmental organisations has in a joint statement urged government leaders, particularly from the nuclear-armed states and their allies, to act with greater urgency and cooperation to meet unfulfilled promises to reduce nuclear risks and advance progress on disarmament, and to realise their commitment to the “complete elimination of nuclear weapons”. The statement coincided with the 25th anniversary on May 11 of the indefinite extension of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). [2020–05-12 | 04] ARABIC | GERMAN | HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | THAI

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Global Civil Society Demands Bolder Action from NPT States Parties

By Jamshed Baruah

Image credit: Pixabay

GENEVA (IDN) – A diverse network of national and international peace and nuclear disarmament non-governmental organisations has in a joint statement urged government leaders, particularly from the nuclear-armed states and their allies, to act with greater urgency and cooperation to meet unfulfilled promises to reduce nuclear risks and advance progress on disarmament, and to realise their commitment to the “complete elimination of nuclear weapons”. The statement coincided with the 25th anniversary on May 11 of the indefinite extension of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). [2020–05-12 | 04] ARABIC | GERMAN | HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | THAI

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25 Years After the Indefinite Extension of The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: A Field of Broken Promises and Shattered Visions

By Tariq Rauf*

Photo: Opening of the Review and Extension Conference of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 17 April 1995. Seated on the podium from left to right: UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali; President of the Conference, Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala (Sri Lanka); Secretary-General of the Conference, Prvoslav Davinić. Credit: UN Photo by Evan Schneider.

VIENNA (IDN) – “I long ago took to heart the words of Omar Bradley, spoken virtually a half century ago, when he observed, having seen the aftermath of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thus: ‘We live in an age of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We live in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We’ve unlocked the mysteries of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living’.”[2020–05-11]

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Beware of Weaponizing COVID-19

Viewpoint by Jayasri Priyalal

Image: Collage of images of biomasks and COVID-19 with graphics from Internet.

 SINGAPORE (IDN) – Weapons of Mass Destructions (WMD) were something that USA and UK coalition forces were trying to find in the armouries of Saddam Hussain in Iraq in March 2003. Anglo-Saxon media was painting the fears of death, destruction and sufferings to humankind unless those weapons were destroyed – justifying the illegal invasion of the allied forces into a sovereign Iraq, violating all international laws and order. [2020–05-10]

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World Conference Calls for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and Reversing Climate Change

世界大会が核兵器廃絶と気候変動対策を呼びかけ

【ニューヨークIDN＝サントー・D・バネルジー】

１月２３日、『原子力科学者会報』誌は「世界終末時計」の針を「真夜中（＝地球と人類の滅亡）まで１００秒」にセットすると発表した。１３人のノーベル賞受賞者たちによる、核兵器と気候危機の実存的危険についての劇的な警告であった。

４月２５日、新型コロナ危機の中、１０００人以上の平和活動家、気候変動活動家、社会運動家が集まって、「世界大会：核兵器廃絶、気候危機の阻止と反転、社会的経済的正義のために」を初めてオンラインで開催した。

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World Conference Calls for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and Reversing Climate Change – Korean

세계 회의, 핵무기 폐지와 기후 변화 반전 요구

글: 산토 D. 배너지

뉴욕(IDN) – 미국핵과학자회(Bulletin of Atomic Scientists)는 1월 23일, 상징적인 ‘운명의 날 시계’의 시곗바늘을 자정 100초 전으로 맞추며 핵무기와 기후 위기의 실질적 위험에 대한 노벨상 수상자 13인의 경고를 극적으로 표현했습니다.

코로나19 사태가 진행 중인 4월 25일, 평화, 기후, 사회 운동 전반에 걸친 천여 명의 활동가들이 온라인에 모여 사상 최초의‘핵무기폐기와환경변화억제및반전을통한사회적및경제적정의구현을위한온라인세계회의’에참가했습니다.

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Russia’s Victory in WWII Changed the World but War Drums Continue

Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa*

Photo: Veterans in a letter called for Putin to “take a difficult but, as we see it, fair decision to hold the military parade on another date”. Putin has meanwhile agreed to defer the military parade. Credit: Sergei Kiselyov/Moskva News Agency

NEW YORK (IDN) – On May 9, 1945, after four years of violent battles inside Russia, recorded as the bloodiest and most destructive military conflict in the whole history of humanity, the Russians defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. It is the single most important day in Russian history that elicits a strong feeling of pride and patriotic fervour that binds the nation together. [2020–05-06]

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World Conference Calls for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and Reversing Climate Change – Chinese

世界大会呼吁废除核武器及扭转气候变化

作者：Santo D. Banerjee

纽约（IDN） — 1月23日，原子科学家公报将其标志性的‘世界末日时钟’拨到午夜前100秒，这是13位诺贝尔奖得主对核武器和气候危机存在的危险发出的引人注目的警告。

4月25日，在Covid-19危机期间，和平、气候及社会运动等各个方面的1,000多名积极分子在线相聚，参加有史以来的首次虚拟世界大会：废除核武器|抵御和逆转气候变化|争取社会和经济正义。

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