- Target:
- ENVIRONMENTAL FORUMS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- Region:
- Australia
- Website:
- www.acfonline.org.au
In 2007 a nuclear treaty was en sent to a federal Parliamentary Inquiry by the new Labor federal government. This Inquiry may report back from mid-September 2008 and then Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith will decide Australia’s position.
Australia should not sell uranium to nuclear weapon states – like Russia – that fail to comply with their nuclear disarmament obligations under the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Russia maintains the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and is developing new weapons delivery systems.
This nuclear treaty would jeopardise the aims of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s new International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament to rid the world of nuclear weapons and would make the world less safe and more insecure.
We, the undersigned, call on the Rudd Government to stop the nuclear treaty that was proposed and signed by then prime minister John Howard and Russian President Vladimir Putin at APEC in Sydney in 2007 and for the new Rudd Government to stop selling uranium to nuclear weapon states – like Russia, indefinelely.
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The AUSTRALIA SAYS NO TO NUCS petition to ENVIRONMENTAL FORUMS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT was written by Penny Armstrong and is in the category Environment at GoPetition.