Dalai Lama, Other Nobel Winners Demand Explicit Vow Not to Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine

“It is either the end of nuclear weapons, or the end of us,” the peace prize winners say in an open letter.

JON QUEALLY, March 26, 2022   The Dalai Lama is

 among 16 Nobel Peace Prize laureates who jointly issued an open letter Saturday calling for the immediate end of the attack on Ukraine and an explicit vow from both Russia and NATO forces that nuclear weapons of any kind will not be used as part of this conflict or any other.

“We reject war and nuclear weapons,” the letter declares. “We call on all our fellow citizens of the world to join us in protecting our planet, home for all of us, from those who threaten to destroy it.” 

Backed by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which won the Nobel in 1985, and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), awarded the prize for similar advocacy in 2017, the letter was also signed by ten other individual winners—including Jody Williams, Kailash Satyarthi, and Óscar Arias Sánchez—as well as the International Peace Bureau, which won the award in 1910, the American Friends Service Committee (1947), and the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs (1995)……………………………………   The full text of the letter and the list of lead signatories— can be endorsed by anyone on the Avaaz page – follows more https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/no_nuclear_war_2022_55/?wcpXZsb

March 28, 2022 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized