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Soka Gakki International calls for real action on nuclear weapons abolition

SGI President Calls for Accelerated Action Toward Nuclear Abolition PR Hub January 26th, 2010 January 26 – In a proposal released on Jan. 26, “Toward a New Era of Value Creation,”
Soka Gakkai International (SGI) President Daisaku Ikeda calls for accelerated
moves toward the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.Noting that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference
to be held in May provides a vital opportunity for progress, Ikeda outlines
three imperatives:

1) To establish nuclear weapon non-use zones, particularly in Northeast
Asia, South Asia and the Middle East, as a step toward complete
denuclearization.

2) To revise the statutes of the International Criminal Court to classify
the use of nuclear weapons as a war crime.

3) To create a multilateral system by which the United Nations General
Assembly and the Security Council work together toward the complete
elimination of nuclear weapons, as provided for by Article 26 of the UN
Charter which gives the Security Council responsibility to formulate plans
for the regulation of armaments.

Ikeda urges intensive efforts over the next five years to achieve these
goals, culminating in a nuclear abolition summit to be held in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in 2015, which would symbolically mark the end of the era of nuclear
weapons within the lifetimes of survivors of the nuclear bombings of those
cities.

SGI President Calls for Accelerated Action Toward Nuclear Abolition

January 27, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons