Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 5:40 PM
India should take initiative to convince nuclear weapons states
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Time has come now for all the nuclear weapons possessing countries
to join the TREATY PROHIBITING NUCLEAR WEAPONS (TPNW) and phase out these
weapons of mass destruction to save earth. This was said by Dr Arun Mitra – Co
President IPPNW while addressing a seminar on Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN
– Tasks Ahead at Circuit House, Ludhiana today. Large number of people
from different walks of life including doctors, teachers, lawyers, women,
students, youth and social activists participated in this seminar organized
jointly by Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) and Social Thinkers
Forum.
A seven member delegation from Indian Doctors for Peace and
Development (IDPD) from different parts of the country including Dr Arun
Mitra - Co President International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War (IPPNW), Dr S S Soodan-President, Dr Satyajit Kumar Singh-Senior
Vice President, Dr Shakeel Ur Rahman-General Secretary, Dr Jeetendra
Singh-Secretary of IDPD, Dr Bibha Singh and Dr Yahya Khan
participated in the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Oslo, Norway on 10th December
2017. Expressing joy at the award as a recognition to the anti nuclear
movement said Dr Arun Mitra that it is time to not just rejoice the award, but
for commitment to work hard to make all the nine nuclear weapons states join
the treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons (TPNW) passed by the UN General Assembly
by 122 vs one vote on 7th July 2017. The ICAN was launched as a group of various
peace movements around the world on 23rd April 2007 as an idea conceived by the
IPPNW to build a broad based movement for nuclear disarmament. It now has 468
partners with IDPD as one of them. Various researches have shown that even a
limited nuclear war using 100 Hiroshima sized bombs will put 2 billion people
at the risk of starvation and death. Total number of nuclear weapons on earth
at present is estimated to be about 17000 which can put all the flora and fauna
at the risk of extinction. Such catastrophic effects must not be allowed and
therefore the nuclear weapons must be abolished for good. For this the ICAN has
organised several civil society meets around the world on the humanitarian
impact of nuclear weapons. This ultimately convinced the UNO to discuss the
issue and succeeded in getting the TPNW through.
It is imperative that there should not be any escalation of
tension in Indian subcontinent and all efforts should be undertaken to maintain
the peace in the region. Any small arms low level conflict has in it implicit
danger of use of nuclear weapons because both India and Pakistan have over 120
nuclear weapons each. The IDPD has reiterated commitment for a nuclear weapon
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Dr N S Bawa said that India should take initiative and convince
all the nuclear weapon states to join TPNW. He further narrated the harrowing
images of mass destruction he had seen during his visit to Hiroshima peace
museum.
M S Bhatia–Co Convener Social Thinkers Forum called up all the
participants in the seminar to spread this message.
S.Ranjit Singh–President Bharat Jan Gyan Vigyan Jatha gave vote
of thanks.
Others who joined the seminar are Dr Shakti Kumar, Dr Jaswinder
Singh, Dr Tejinder Toor, Dr Gursharan Singh, Dr Gurcharan Kaur Kochar, Student
leader Deepak Kumar, Gurnam Gill, Gurnam Sidhu, Jagdish Rai Bobby, Swaroop
Singh, Vijay Kumar, B S Walia, Avtar Chibbar.
For more details please contact:M S Bhatia–Co Convener Social Thinkers Forum. His mobile number is: 9988491002