[sacw] South Asians Against Nukes Post | 19 Oct. 00

[Harsh Kapoor]

South Asians Against Nukes Post
19 October 2000

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#1. Upcoming Anti-Nuclear Conference in Delhi (11-13 Nov 00)
#2. Estimates of India - Pakistan's fissile material stocks & nuke capabilities
#3. Unions call for India Pakistan Disarmament
#4. World Forum of Fisher Peoples Resolution on Uranium mining & shipping
of waste
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#1.

NATIONAL CONVENTION for NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT and PEACE
11-13 November 2000
Delhi, India

Contact:
N.D.Jayaprakash
On behalf of the Organising Committee,
National Convention for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace,
C/o Delhi Science Forum,
B -1, Second Floor, L.S.C.,
J - Block, Saket,
New Delhi 110017
INDIA

Tel. nos.+91-11-652-4324; +91-11-652-2053;
Telefax: +91-11-686-2716
E-mail: natcon2000@f...

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#2.

ISIS is pleased to announce that estimates of India and Pakistan's fissile
material stocks and associated nuclear weapons capabilities through the end
of 1999 have been posted on the ISIS website. These estimates may be
accessed at:
http://www.isis-online.org/publications/southasia/stocks1000.html

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#3.

No. 78/2000

6 October 2000

The following is from the International Federation of Chemical, Energy,
Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM):

UNIONS CALL FOR INDIA-PAKISTAN DISARMAMENT, URGE ASEAN TO GET TOUGH ON
BURMA

The working people of Pakistan and India are not at war with each other.
The two countries must resolve their differences peacefully, renounce
nuclear weapons and divert spending from defence to the alleviation of
poverty.

That was the call yesterday from Asia-Pacific trade union leaders meeting
in Singapore. They were taking part in the Regional Conference of the
20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and
General Workers' Unions (ICEM).

The union leaders also urged the Asean economic bloc to exert more
pressure on Burma to comply with "basic civilised standard". The Burmese
regime systemically violates labour rights. The use of forced labour and
child labour is widespread and genuine trade unions are banned. Burma is
an Asean member state, and the call came as Asean's economics ministers
were meeting in Thailand.

Multinationals, especially those in the oil and chemical sectors, should
also step up the pressure on the Burmese regime, the unions leaders said.

The Singapore meeting evaluated the record of the ICEM Asia-Pacific
Regional Organisation. Substantial progress had been made on the
organisation's four main objectives, Regional President Daisaku Kochiyama
said. These are the construction of union networks both within individual
multinationals and across whole sectors; the strengthening of respect for
trade union rights and other human rights across the region; trade union
education; and friendship and solidarity among the region's trade
unionists.

ICEM General Secretary Fred Higgs reported progress in the ICEM's
campaign to sign global agreements both with individual multinationals
and with whole sectors.

Other guest speakers were Noriyuki Suzuki, General Secretary of the
Asia-Pacific Regional Organisation of the International Confederation of
Free Trade Unions, and John de Payva, President of Singapore's National
Trades Union Congress.

Individual ICEM UPDATE items can be supplied in other languages on
request.

Our print magazines ICEM INFO and ICEM GLOBAL are available in English,
French, German, Russian, Scandinavian and Spanish.

Visit us on the Net at www.icem.org

ICEM
avenue Emile de Beco 109, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
tel.+32.2.6262020 fax +32.2.6484316
Internet: icem@g...

Editor: Ian Graham, Information Officer

Publisher: Fred Higgs, General Secretary.

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#4.

World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP)
Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:44 AM

Subject: Resolution of WFFP on Uranium mining

Dear Friends, Greetings! 
This is to communicate about the WFFP resoultion on cession of mining of
Uranium on the lands of the indegenious and tribal peoples. The full text
of the resolution is appended below. 

In Solidarity
Harekrishna Debnath
General secretary
World Forum of Fisher Peoples 

Resolution on shipment of Radioactive waste

That this Forum (WFFP) demand a cessation of mining of uranium on the
lands of the indigenous and tribal peoples and that all further transfer
of spent uranium and other radioactive wastes across oceans, for example
between Japan and France.