Antinuclear campaign

Press, 26 February 1983, Page 7

Antinuclear campaign

PA Wellington The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament will hold a "nuclear-free Pacific week" next week and says it is ironic that the first meeting of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Disarmament for the year is in the same week. The group will begin its week-long programme with a broadcast in Wellington and will end with a Greenpeace silent march to Parliament' on Friday evening, March 4. On Friday, March 11. the chairman of the Select Committee, Mr D. L. Kidd, will hold an open forum at the Victori’a University library with an international peace researcher, Mr Owen Wilkes. The campaign will protest against what it sees as the threat to the peoples, lands, and waters of the Pacific posed by nuclear bomb tests, delivery system testing, use of territories for siting weapons, systems or support facilities, use of Pacific waters as cruising grounds for nuclear submarines and warships, and the dumping of nuclear wastes. The campaign calls for Pacific nations to be independent and militarily nonaligned as necessary steps towards the achievement of a nuclear-free zone.