N-bomb crusade starts

Press, 3 August 1981, Page 9

N-bomb crusade starts

NZPA-Reuter Tokyo An international ban-the-bomb meeting sponsored' by the Japan Congress Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs agreed yesterday to launch a world wide campaign and designated October as world anti-nuclear month. This was agreed at an international “solidarity” congress, which ended a twoday meeting in Tokyo yesterday. Forty-five foreign representatives attended the meeting, held before antinuclear rallies begin in Tokyo and Nagasaki today. The solidarity meeting, backed by the Japan Social-

ist Party, adopted a resolution declaring that nuclear energy, whether for military or peaceful purposes, produces human victims in all phases from uranium ore exploration to nuclear waste disposals in the oceans. The resolution also said the nuclear fuel cycle leads to human death. In a separate meeting, the National Council for Peace, and Council Against Nuclear Weapons, backed by the Japan Social Democrats, decided to establish an international centre to defend Japan's three non-nuclear principles — not to possess, not to manufacture, and not

to bring in nuclear weapons. An international rally, the fifth in a series, will open in Tokyo today. It will call for a total ban on nuclear weapons and for world peace through disarmament. The annual gathering is expected to attract some 110 delegates from 10 international pacifist organisations in 30 countries as well as thousands of Japanese. Rallies will be held in Tokyo tomorrow, followed by rallies in Hiroshima, the world’s first atom-bombed city, on August 6 and in Nagasaki, the world’s second atom bombed city, on August 9.