Pugwash Movement to meet in N.Z.

Press, 28 August 1979, Page 22

Pugwash Movement to meet in N.Z.

PA Wellington One of the most important international groups opposed to nuclear armaments, the Pugwash Movement, will hold its next meeting in Auckland next January. The symposium will bring together leading scientists from many countries, says the New Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies. Local arrangements are being made by a committee representing the founda'lon and the University of Auckland. The Pugwash Movement gets its name from the venue of the first meeting, the town of Pugw'ash in Nova Scotia, in 1957.

It resulted from an appeal signed by Albert Einstein and ” Bertrand Russell, among others, calling on men and women to pay attention to the threat of thermo-nuclear war. Scientists from communist countries are among those who attend the movement’s annual meetings. The symposium in Auckland will be the first Pugwash meeting in Australasia. The foundation says that a number of topics will be discussed under the general heading of “Nuclear futures in the Pacific.”