WILPF uttalande om Nordkorea

1 Okt 2006:

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is
outraged by the claimed October 9, 2006 nuclear explosion conducted by
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). This action threatens
international peace and security, the environment, and the nuclear
disarmament and non proliferation regime. The test, supposedly conducted
near Mount Mantap, in the north east of the country, threatens
surrounding towns with radioactive contamination. WILPF recognizes that
long-lived radionuclides from nuclear weapons testing impact the water
systems beneath the site for thousands of years. There is no way to
clean up a nuclear test site.

WILPF calls on the DPRK to cease its nuclear weapons programme
immediately and return in good faith to the six-party talks.

WILPF calls on the UN Security Council to take immediate action on this
test and to work with all parties in the region to find a way to condemn
this test without creating a devastating humanitarian impact on the region.

WILPF calls on all UN Member States to immediately desist from trading
any arms, or arms related materials with the DPRK.

WILPF calls on all nuclear weapons states, to immediately begin
negotiations on a nuclear weapons convention, to cease and desist from
any nuclear weapons development and modernization, and to immediately
begin developing national level disarmament processes.

WILPF calls on the remaining 10 states whose signature is required for
the entry into force of the Comprehensive nuclear Test Ban Treaty, to
immediately ratify that treaty. Failing ratification by these, WILPF
calls on the states already party to the treaty to convene a conference
to allow the treaty to provisionally enter into force, in order that the
International Monitoring System established by the CTBTO can come into
full operation and provide international, independent verification of
any future tests. This is a depressing example of why an international
verifiable legally-binding ban on all nuclear tests is necessary, and a
pressing reason to institute international law as the only alternative
to the rule of force.

WILPF works on issues of peace, human rights and disarmament at the
local, national and international levels, participating in the ongoing
international debates on peace and security issues, conflict prevention
and resolution, on the elimination of all forms of discrimination, and
the promotion and protection of human rights. It contributes to analysis
of these issues, and through its many activities, educates, informs and
mobilizes women for action everywhere.

–
Ms. Susi Snyder
Secretary General
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
1, rue de Varembe
Case Postale 28
1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
Telephone : +41 22 919 7080
Fax : +41 22 919 7081
email : susi.snyder@wilpf.ch
websites:
http://www.wilpf.ch
http://www.peacewomen.org
http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org