Toward A Nuclear Free World Newsletter - July 2023 in Retrospect

Toward A Nuclear Free World Newsletter - July 2023 in Retrospect

 

 

TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD

A Joint Media Project of
the Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group with IDN as the Flagship Agency
and Soka Gakkai International in Consultative Status with ECOSOC

A combined issue for June-July-August-September 2023

Following are selected articles dealing with nuclear disarmament and arms control in June-July-August-September 2023. Some technical hitches constrained us to skip three monthly newsletters. We wish you a good reading.

 

 

Image source: UNFOLD ZERO - Photo: 2023Nuclear Annihilation: A Haunting Reality of the Future

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS. 26 September 2023 (IDN) — When the United Nations commemorated the 10th anniversary of International Day for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, the President of the General Assembly, Dennis Francis, was dead on target when he warned that the risk of nuclear annihilation “is not a chapter from our past; it is a haunting reality of our present”. (P18) CHINESE | JAPANESE | NORWEGIAN  

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Chair (on podium), four panelists and a section of the audience of the Forum on "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons is Possible" on 11 September 2023 in Berlin held as part of the International Meeting "The Audacity of Peace" hosted by the lay Catholic Association Community of Sant’Egidio. The Forum was co-organized by Soka Gakkai and others. Credit: Sant'Egidio. - Photo: 2023Clarion Call for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons

By Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN. 19 September 2023 (IDN) — Mark* is 28 years. Like him, those in their twenties believed that atomic bombs, which the United States dropped over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, belonged to a remote past. However, since Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to deploy nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war, they ponder why Germany—united since the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989—”should not make nuclear weapons.” (P 17) FRENCH | GERMAN | JAPANESE

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 The first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which met from 31 July–11 August 2023 at the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria. Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA - Photo: 2023Contentious Preparations for the 2026 NPT Review Conference

Analysis by Sergio Duarte

The writer is an Ambassador, a former High Representative of the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs., and President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

NEW YORK. 7 September 2023 (IDN) — The preparatory cycle for each Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was established at the Review and Extension Conference as one of the elements that made possible agreement on the indefinite extension of the Treaty. (P16)  KOREAN | JAPANESE

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Photo from L to R: Ivana Nikolic Hughes (NAPF), Nikolai Sokov (VCDNP) , Christine Muttonen (PNND), Chie Sunada (SGI). Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri, Multimedia Director of IDN-INPS.

By Aurora Weiss

VIENNA. 11 August 2023 (IDN) — At the two-week-long Preparatory Committee meeting here for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai International (SGI)—in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)—and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation organized a side event. (P 15) ITALIAN | JAPANESE 

Read more...Photo: Arms Control and Nonproliferation. Credit: United States Department of State.

By Sergio Duarte

The writer is an Ambassador, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, and President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

NEW YORK. 9 August 2023 (IDN) — Nuclear weapons burst into the international scenario 21 days after the signature of the Charter of the United Nations. For that chronological reason, the Charter does not mention nuclear weapons. (P 14) INDONESIAN |  JAPANESE | KOREAN
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Vanessa Lanteigne, Program Officer at Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), presenting proposals on Gender Inclusivity at the NPT Working Group at the UN on 23 July.

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Bypasses Gender Parity

Photo Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri, Multimedia Director of IDN-INPS. (From L to R): Alicia Sanders-Zakre, Policy and Research Coordinator at International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Alimzhan Akhmetov, the Founder-Director of the Center for International Security and Policy, Kazakhstan, Dmitriy Vesselov a third generation Semipalatinsk nuclear-testing survivor, Arman Baissuanov, Director of International Security at the Kazakh Foreign Ministry, Hirotsugu Terasaki, Director General of Peace and Global Issues, Soka Gakkai International (SGI), Sanya Rajpal (SGI-UK)

Collage with images from Internet by IDN-INPS.

AI ChatBot Warns of Nuclear Risks in a Militant Political Climate

Nuclear weapons sent by Russia to Belarus will target Europe. Source: YouTube Kanal 13 Global

Tactical Nuclear Arms in Belarus "a Disturbing Development"

Hirotsugu Terasaki, Director General of Peace and Global Issues, Soka Gakkai International (Right) at a one-day international conference titled ‘Advancing Security and Sustainability at the G7 Hiroshima Summit’ held at the University on March 29, 2023.　Credit: SGI

Universalization of Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty Is Essential

By Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN | TOKYO, 11 June 2023 (IDN) — Peacebuilder and Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda, who is president of the Tokyo-based Soka Gakkai International (SGI), issued a statement ahead of the meeting of the Group of 7 (G7) countries in Hiroshima May 19-21, calling on the G7 leaders to take bold steps toward resolving the conflict in Ukraine and guarantee the security of all humanity by taking the lead in discussions on pledges of No First Use of nuclear weapons. (P09) ARABIC | GERMAN | ITALIAN  | JAPANESE | NORWEGIAN | SPANISH | SWEDISH 

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Growing importance of NWFZs

Viewpoint by Dr. J. Enkhsaikhan

The writer is Chairman of Blue Banner NGO and Former Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations

ULAANBAATAR, 5 June 2023 (IDN) — Nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs) are important and practical regional measures of non-nuclear-weapon states (NNWSs) in promoting the goals of nuclear non-proliferation and strengthening confidence among states. (P08) CHINESE | JAPANESE | RUSSIAN
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