Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:42 PM
Dear Friends,
I am sending you the “Bazel Declaration on human rights and
trans-generational crimes resulting from nuclear weapons and nuclear
energy.
It is a historic first step toward true denuclearization”.
Suffice it to cite its two proposals to grasp the historic significance of the Declaration.
“The employment of nuclear weapons, as well as indiscriminate damage to
health and to the environment resulting from other nuclear activities,
should be included as a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute
of the International Criminal Court. We also call for amendment of the
Rome Statute to include the crime of ecocide.”
“The 28 May 1959 agreement between the World Health organization and
the IAEA, which leads to conflict of interest and limits the free
information on health consequences of nuclear civil use, must be
abolished.”
This declaration will help to revive the legitimate efforts explained
in the attached Joint Statement, calling for the reform of the IAEA. It
has been supported by Former President of the Swiss Confederation
Moritz Leuenberger and Former Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa.
It will be a decisive response to the warning that “ the fate of the world will be decided by electric companies”.
The destructive power of nuclear energy in all directions— global environment, states, organizations, individuals—
Is being increasingly recognized and witnessed.
Civil society is consoled and encouraged by the law of history(the will of heavens and the earth) that ends all dictatorships.
With warmest and highest regards,
Mitsuhei Murata
Former Ambassador to Switzerland
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