Ile Longue nuclear military base: France making a mockery of its NPT commitments
Ile Longue nuclear military base: France making a mockery of its NPT commitments: "France is violating its commitment to the NPT. Greenpeace calls on the French government to stop the development and production of new M-51 missiles and to wind down the 288 nuclear warheads at its military base at Ile Longue.
“At a time of growing global insecurity it is of deep concern that a nuclear base of this kind, with a total destructive power 2000 times more powerful than that used in Hiroshima is in fact increasing rather than decreasing its capability,” Peden said.
France currently assigns some three billion euros per annum to its military nuclear complex. Its moves to develop new atomic weapons, along with steps by other nuclear weapon states including the US, which is upgrading its Nevada nuclear test site in preparation for a resumption of nuclear testing, is driving a new global arms race that ultimately is placing great strains on the survival of the NPT.
“North Korea is on the way to becoming a nuclear power and more than forty other countries have the capacity to follow their example within a few months,” said Yannick Jadot, Greenpeace France Campaign Director, on board the Arctic Sunrise at Ile Longue.
“Greenpeace calls on France to publicly confirm its 35 year-old NPT obligation to achieve unambiguous and complete abolition of their nuclear arsenals and to immediately halt any further development of new nuclear weapons. France must also call for an immediate adoption of a moratorium on the production, transport and the use of nuclear materials if a world free of nuclear weapons is to be achieved,” Jadot concluded.
Notes
(1) Article VI of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty stipulates: ' Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective interna"
“At a time of growing global insecurity it is of deep concern that a nuclear base of this kind, with a total destructive power 2000 times more powerful than that used in Hiroshima is in fact increasing rather than decreasing its capability,” Peden said.
France currently assigns some three billion euros per annum to its military nuclear complex. Its moves to develop new atomic weapons, along with steps by other nuclear weapon states including the US, which is upgrading its Nevada nuclear test site in preparation for a resumption of nuclear testing, is driving a new global arms race that ultimately is placing great strains on the survival of the NPT.
“North Korea is on the way to becoming a nuclear power and more than forty other countries have the capacity to follow their example within a few months,” said Yannick Jadot, Greenpeace France Campaign Director, on board the Arctic Sunrise at Ile Longue.
“Greenpeace calls on France to publicly confirm its 35 year-old NPT obligation to achieve unambiguous and complete abolition of their nuclear arsenals and to immediately halt any further development of new nuclear weapons. France must also call for an immediate adoption of a moratorium on the production, transport and the use of nuclear materials if a world free of nuclear weapons is to be achieved,” Jadot concluded.
Notes
(1) Article VI of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty stipulates: ' Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective interna"
posted by Greta Jane at Sunday, May 15, 2005
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