Press Releases & Updates 1998

While talks between the UN and Baghdad on the dismantling of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction reach an impasse, growing world-wide attention is also being given to Britain’s own nightmare weapons, as people from as far afield as Japan and Sweden raise their concern at the UK’s continued contribution to nuclear escalation through the Trident system, and voice their support for the citizens’ disarmament action of Trident Ploughshares 2000 (TP2000) which will begin on the 11th August at the Clyde bases, following an opening ceremony at the North Gate, Faslane, at 4 p.m.

>From Sweden Igge Olson, himself a Ploughshares activist, in a letter to the British Embassy in Stockholm says:" We are still convinced that the British Trident program is contributing to the nuclear arms race and is contradictory to International Law and International agreements. This means we are still prepared to go on and take non-violent action to start the dismantling of Trident submarines." In spite of the failure so far of the British government to talk to TP2000, Igge goes on to say: " We are at the same time happy to continue the dialogue."

In Hiroshima Anya Light of TP2000 will join local people in the annual commemoration of the dropping of the bomb on 6th August 1945, in acknowledgement of Britain’s shameful and continued readiness to inflict on civilian populations the same horrors as the Japanese city suffered 53 years ago.

Meanwhile the For Mother Earth Group, an international peace group who have nearly completed their 1000km walk from Brussels to the Clyde, will commemorate Hiroshima Day on Thursday at Strathclyde Country Park, before joining the 15 day disarmament action at Coulport.

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