Excerpt from... ----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia K White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 4:23 AM Subject: [STOPNATO] Great Info!!G-8 summit in Okinawa STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM Thanks to Felicity at WILPF for this info! Madame MacDeath and everyone elses # are attached as well as info about the G-8!!! Hopefully Okinawa protests will be as powerful as the WTO, and A-16...Wish I could go, love sushi, better than jail food! In Solidarity, Claudia --------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:03:12 From: "Main Line News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:05:43 From: Felicity Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HELP PREVENT A NEW ARMS RACE. (Please pass this message on to everyone you know who might be interested, and might act on it) Dear Friends and all concerned people, The G8 will be meeting in Okinawa from 21-23 July. This meeting is an opportunity to apply pressure to the US to stop its National Missile Defence Program. There are still more than 36,000 nuclear weapons in the world in spite of the fact that the cold war is supposed to be over. At the recent Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference, the nuclear weapons countries as well as every other country on the planet except India, Pakistan, and Israel agreed to the total and unequivocal elimination of nuclear weapons. In addition, country after country said that the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty was the cornerstone of strategic stability and should be strengthened not weakened or abrogated. They did not mean by that, amended to allow a ballistic missile defence system. However, the US is pursuing a ballistic missile defence system that threatenes to re-ignite the global nuclear arms race and put a stop to all efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons, in spite of the fact that nuclear weapon states have agreed to do that. Ballistic Missile Defence has been strongly criticised by all the US's allies as well as by Russia and China, and much of the United Nations. The coming G8 summit is a good place for US allies and others to express their concerns. Russia has offered the US in upcoming negotiations on START-III, warhead numbers as low as 1500 warheads. However, the US in response has actually tried to persuade Russia to go for higher numbers of nuclear warheads. This again violates the committment made so recently, to the total and unequivocal elimination of nuclear arsenals.
