NAGASAKI APPEAL 2010
The 4th Nagasaki Global Citizens' Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
February 8, 2010
We have gathered from around the world at the Nagasaki Global Citizens' Assembly for theElimination of Nuclear Weapons for the fourth time to demonstrate our determination that Nagasaki
be the last place ever to suffer a nuclear attack. At the first Assembly in 2000, we heard atomic bomb
survivors say, "We want to see nuclear weapons abolished in our lifetime." Since then, ten years havepassed without their wish being realized. Hearing again the voices of survivors, we renew our resolveto achieve a world without nuclear weapons. Their stories remind us of the suffering of victims createdat the every stage of the nuclear cycle from uranium mining to weapons production and testing.

With this in mind we must act on the opportunities provided by:•The five-point plan for nuclear disarmament proposed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
on United Nations Day, 24 October 2008;•The tidal-wave of hope inspired by US President Obama's April 2009 speech in Prague, andthe joint statement of US President Obama and Russian President Medvedev in April 2009
pledging to work for nuclear stockpile reductions and supporting the goal of anuclear-weapons-free world;•The change of government in Japan and the subsequent statements by Prime Minister
Hatoyama and Foreign Minister Okada calling for sole-purpose nuclear doctrines, negative
security assurances and advocating for a regional nuclear weapon free zone;•The announcement by German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle recommending theremoval of US nuclear weapons from the territories of NATO states as a step in reducing therole of nuclear weapons in NATO.

Nuclear weapons are the ultimate threat to life and the environment and the most extreme violation ofhuman rights. They are dangerous in anyone's hands and any use would be a crime against humanity.
We call upon governments, in cooperation with civil society, to launch the process of abolishing nuclear
weapons in a visible manner. To that end, the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT), to be held in May 2010, provides a critical opportunity to achieve this goal. Bearing thisin mind, we advocate the following actions:1.

Establishment of a process, involving like-minded countries and representatives of civilsociety, to undertake preparatory work on a treaty to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.
Such a process should be organized with reference to the five-point proposal for nuclear
disarmament advanced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, which includes a call onstates to commence negotiation on a nuclear weapons convention or package of agreements.
The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, launched by Mayors for Peace at the 2008 NPT
Preparatory Committee meeting in Geneva, also advocates such a process. We call on the2010 NPT Review Conference to agree to this.

2.

All states possessing nuclear arsenals should halt research, development, testing, andcomponent production while reductions of arsenals are in progress, not afterwards, withproduction and research facilities subject to an intrusive verification regime at the earliest
possible time. States should reduce nuclear weapons in a manner that supports general
disarmament, and the financial and human resources currently used to develop and maintain
nuclear weapons systems should be redirected towards meeting social and economic needs
consistent with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

3.

Increased citizen involvement in nuclear disarmament, including through campaigns andactivities of Mayors for Peace, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation andDisarmament (PNND), Abolition 2000 Global Network, the International Campaign toAbolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and others. We support nonviolent actions to oppose
nuclear weapons, including direct action at nuclear weapons facilities. We encourage greater
participation of youth in such campaigns and activities.

4.

Creation of more nuclear weapons free zones or zones free of weapons of mass destruction, or
single state nuclear weapons free zones, in regions of the world including the Middle East,Northeast Asia, Europe, South Asia and the Arctic. Nuclear weapon free zones provide apractical means for reducing the role of nuclear weapons in security doctrines and decreasing
the threat of nuclear weapons being used in the regions covered by the zones, and provide a
realistic alternative to reliance on extended nuclear deterrence. In particular, we call on thegovernments of Japan and South Korea to prepare and publicize plans for creating aNortheast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone. This would create a favorable environment for
promoting the six-party talks designed to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

5.

Bring world leaders, including U.S. President Obama, to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to meetsurvivors and see for themselves the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, which
continue through the lives of survivors and subsequent generations. It is essential to continue
to impart the experiences of A-bomb victims in all their aspects to people all over the world. Inthis matter, Japan as the only country to have suffered atomic bombing, has a uniquecontribution to make.
To the leaders of the nations that have nuclear weapons and those that wish to have them, we address
our final comments to you:

Surely you are aware through literature and films of the enormous destructive power of the atomic
bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While you may believe that nuclear weapons serve
your national security interests and elevate your prestige, you have not personally experienced theeffects of an atomic bomb explosion. The fact is that tens of thousands of innocent citizens wereobliterated instantly under those mushroom clouds, that people who did not die instantly died after
writhing in agony, covered in blood or burned in fire, and that people who narrowly escaped death had
to suffer from radiation-induced illnesses for the rest of their lives.

You cannot be proud of possessing nuclear weapons or seeking to have them in the future. It meansthat you are conspirators in a shameful offence against humanity. From Nagasaki, an atomic bombedcity, as global citizens, we demand that you take immediate steps towards the realization of a world
without nuclear weapons.

The Organ
Organizing
rganizing Committee
Committee of the Nagasaki Global Citizens’
Citizens’ Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear
Weapons