IV) An Ad-hoc Clearinghouse Committee to ensure the
effective
functioning of the Clearinghouse, and in particular the
fundraising for it. Members of the Ad-hoc Committee are:
Jane
Bloomfield c/o CND Britain
162 Holloway Road
London N7 8DQ,
UK
Tel.(44-171) 700 2349
Fax: (44-171) 700 2357
e-mail:
jbloomfield@gn.apc.org or cnd@gn.apc.org
Michael Christ, c/o
IPPNW Central Office
126 Rogers Street
Cambridge MA 02142-1096,
USA
Tel.(1-617)868 5050
Fax: (1-617) 868 2560, e-mail:
ippnw@oln.comlink.apc.org
Colin Archer, c/o IPB, Rue de Zurich
41
CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel. (41-22) 731 6429
Fax:
(41-22)738 9419
e-mail:ipb@gn.apc.org
Xanthe Hall, c/o IPPNW Germany
Kortestr. 10, D-10967
Berlin,
Germany
Tel.: (49-30) 693 0244
Fax: (49-30) 693 8166
e-mail:
ippnwW@oln.comlink.de
Reiner Braun, c/o INES (see BAN! letter-head)
Jackie Cabasso
c/o Western States Legal Foundation (WSFL)
1440
Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland CA 94612, USA
Tel.(1-510) 839 5877,
Fax:(1-510) 839 5397
e-mail:wsfl@igc.apc.org
[co-opted:Pamela Meidell
World Campaign to Abolish Nuclear
Weapons
P.A. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF)
1187 Coast
Village Rd., #123
Santa Barbara CA 93108-2737,USA
Tel.(1-805)
965 3443
Fax: (1-805) 568 0466
e-mail: napf@igc.apc.org or 3050napf@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu]
V) An e-mail listserver, through which endorsing organisations
may obtain and distribute documentation electronically:abolition-caucus@igc.apc.org
Working Groups already established:
Euro-bomb
aims: to work for a nuclear weapon free zone in
Europe; take the ICJ ruling to a conference for MEPs in Brussels;
work with the OSCE on rejecting a nuclearized Common Foreign and
Security Policy(CFSP)
convener:
Solanqe Fernex
MEP and Women for
Peace France
F-68480 Biederthal, France
Tel.(33)8940 7183
Fax:(33)
8940 7804 or(32-2)284 9143
(note that S.Fernex is also the contact
for IPB's Joint NGO Campaign on European Security)
Newsletter
The outcome so far is this Bulletin!
convener:
Pamela Meidell
p.a.Nuclear Age Peace Foundation(NAPF)
(address see
above)
Use and Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons
aims: to organised
events on "Judgement Day"(when the ICJ delivers its opinion);
revise the Declarations of Public Conscience and collect for
submission to governments and local courts; work on the end of
the Decade of International Law
convener:
Robert Green
c/o World
Court Project UK
2 Chiswick House High Street
Twyford, Berks
RGlO 9AG,UK
Tel./Fax:(44-1734)340 258
e-mail: robwcpuk@gn.apc.org
Chernobyl
aims: to coordinate efforts around the 10th anniversary in April this year
convenors:
Krista van Velzen and Pal d'
Huyvetter
c/o For Mother Earth Belgium
Lange Steenstraat 16/D
B-
9000 Gent,Belgium
Tel.(32-9)233 3268
Fax:132-9)233 4924
e-mail:
pal@motherearth.knccpp.cnt.be
Nuclear Weapons Convention(NWC)
aims: to work for a resolution
in the UN General Assembly requesting the UN Conference on Disar-
mament to commence neqotiations on a NWC; plan for an
international NWC conference for 1997; support the Canberra
Commission (see separate article in this BAN! issue); recommend
IALANA, INESAP, Pugwash drafts; promote nuclear weapon-free zones
convener:
Dr Juergen Scheffran
c/o INESAP
Institut fur Kernphysik
der Technischen Hochschule Darmstadt
SchloBgartenstr. 9
D-64289
Darmstadt,Germany
Tel.(49-6151)16-3016 or
16-4368
Tel./Fax:(06151)16-6039
e-mail:
scheffran@hrzpub.th.-darmstadt.de
Internet WWW page: http:/www.th-darmstadt.de/ze/ianus/inesap.html
Media
convener:
Janet Bloomfield,c/o CND Britain
(see under Ad-
hoc Clearinghouse Cttee.)
Working Groups suggested (but no convener
appointed yet):
Nuclear Testing
aims: work for preambular
language on no new development of nuclear weapons; public
education work on lab testing as vertical proliferation; encourage statements like that of Australia, saying that testing is illegal
Fissile Materials
Regional Nuclear Issues
Next Network Meeting, Edinburgh, 1-4 March 1996
Mainly, the
next Network meeting is to discuss proposals by the Ad-hoc
Clearinghouse Committee. All organisations who have signed the
NGO Abolition Statement are invited to send representatives to
this next meeting which will take place within the Edinburgh
Peace Festival (an annual political and cultural programme spread
over two weeks in March).
Here are the details:
Friday, March 1:
Press conference at 11am;
Civic Reception in the evening
Saturday March 2:
Conference"Managing Nuclear Disarmament
from 11.30 am.to
5pm.
Organizers: World Court Project UK and Scottish CND.
Speakers
include: Prof Joseph Rotblat, Admiral Eugene Carroll, Robert Green, Prof Donald Mackenzie, Patricia
Lewis, Maj-Britt Theorin MEP, Alyn Ware, Scilla Elworthy, Janet
Bloomfield, Bruce Kent.
Sunday, March 3:
Meeting of the Abolition
2000 Network,
Queen's Hall, South Clerk St. from 10am. to 4pm. (the
last two hours will be an open session for general
public)
Classical musical concert at 7.30pm.
Monday, March 4:
Network
Meeting Continued (from 10am. to 5pm.)
Further details:
Abolition
2000 proqramme:
Janet Bloomfield, c/o CND Britain
162 Holloway Road
London N7 8DQ
Tel.(44-171) 700 2393
Fax: (44-171)700 2357
e-mail: jbloomfield@gn.apc.org
Managing Nuclear Disarmament:
George
Farebrother
67 Summerheath Road
Hailsham, Sussex BN27
3DR
Tel./Fax: (44-1323) 844 269
e-mail:geowcp-uk@gn.apc.org
Overall
Edinburgh Peace festival programme:
Alan Wilkie
10 Thomson
Rd.
Currie, Midlothian EH14 5HP
Scotland, UK
Tel. Fax [44-131]449 3695
National news USA:
The address of the newly established
national "Abolition 2000 Network"is:
c/o Economists Allied for
Arms Reduction(ECAAR)
att:Alice Slater
25 West 45th St., #1402
New York NY 10036-4902
Tel.(1-212)768 2080
Fax:(1-212)768
2167
e-mail alice.slater@environet.org
Germany:
The former national NPT Coalition has changed its name
into "Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons". Also, it
decided to join the"Abolition 2000 Network" as a German network
partner
Addresses: IPPNW German section
att: Xanthe
Hall
Kartestr.10
D-10967 Berlin,Germany
Tel.:(49-30)693 0244, Fax:
(49-30)693 8166
e-mail:ippnwW@oln.comlink.de
Peace Cooperative
Network
(an umbrella for local and regional peace groups and other
organizations)
Romerstr. 88
D-53111 Bonn, Germany
Tel.(49-228) 692
904/5
Fax:(49-228)692 906
e-mail: friekoop@link-k.cl.sub.de
Canberra
Commission
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