Date sent:      	Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:45:31 +1000
From:           	FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign 

Subject:        	NMD LETTER NOW HAS 200 SIGNATURES

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON,
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PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN,
+7-095-205-4330, +7-095-206-5173, +7-095-205-4219,

PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, 44-171-925-0918,

PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC, +33-147-42-2465,

PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN +33-142-34-2677

GERMAN PRESIDENT, JOHANNES RAU,
+49-030-20-00-19-99,

CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER,
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PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN, YOSHIRO MORI,
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JEAN CHRETIEN, PRIME MINISTER, CANADA,
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KOSTAS SIMITIS, PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE, +301-671-6183

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PRIME MINISTER WILLHEM KOK, PRIME MINISTER OF THE NETHERLANDS,
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US SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT  +1-202-647-6047,

US SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE, WILLIAM S. COHEN +1-703-695-1149,

FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV,
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ROBIN COOK, UK  MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, +44-171-829-2417,
+44-171-270-2833,

HUBERT VEDRINE, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF FRANCE, 
+33-1-4317-5203,

JOSCHKA FISCHER, FOREIGN MINISTER OF GERMANY +49-228-168-6662,
+49-1888-171-928,
+49-228-173-402, +49-30-201-861-924,

YOHEI KONO, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JAPAN, +81-3-3581-9675

LLOYD AXWORTHY, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, CANADA, 
+1-613-952-3904, +1-613-996-3546

LOUIS MICHEL, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF BELGIUM, 
+32-2-511-6385,

THEODOROS PANGALOS, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF GREECE,
+30-1-362-4195

George Bush Presidential Candidate, +1-512-637-8800.
Al Gore, Presidential Candidate, +1-202-456-2461

Dear Presidents and Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and Defence
Ministers,

The undersigned NGO groups and Parliamentarians, representing 
millions of people,  are writing:

1) To urge the US not to proceed with proposals for a National Missile
Defence System (NMD),

2) To urge  US allies to make the strongest representations in
appropriate forums or bilaterally, to press the US government not to
proceed with the deployment of NMD, and to maintain the integrity of
the ABM Treaty.

Proceeding with National Missile Defence threatens to undermine the
basis of existing and future offensive nuclear arms reduction
measures.

We note the strong statements made on NMD by the Governments of
France, Germany and Sweden, and the expressions of concern by other US
allies including the UK, Canada, and the European Union.

At the recent NPT Review Conference, the US together with 187 other
countries, signed a final declaration that commits it to an
unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of its
nuclear arsenal. Plans to deploy a missile defence system threaten
that vital goal, to which the US is legally committed, together with
all other NPT signatories. The final declaration of the NPT Review
Conference expressly calls for: "the early implementation and entry
into force of START-II and conclusion of START-III as soon as possible
while preserving and strengthening the Antiballistic Missile (ABM)
Treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stability and as a basis for
further reductions of strategic offensive weapons in accordance with
its provisions."

We do not believe it is possible for this to be interpreted in a way
that will allow the deployment of an NMD system, nor should it be so
interpreted. We therefore  urge the US and Russia instead to proceed
to the negotiation of START-III at the lowest possible force levels
and to the immediate implementation of START-II.

We note that the UN Secretary-General, and representatives of Russia,
China, the UK, France, Sweden, the European Community, the New Agenda
Coalition and the Non-Aligned movement have expressed the view that
the ABM treaty is the cornerstone of global strategic stability.

The recent meeting of G8 foreign ministers has also expressed strong
concern over the possibility that the ABM treaty may be abrogated to
allow NMD to proceed, and has stated that they are 'deeply concerned'
over missile proliferation as a result of NMD.

The Australian Senate on June 29th, passed a motion in which it called
on the US not to proceed with the deployment of an NMD system and in
which it called for the implementation of START-II as soon as
possible, and the negotiation of START-III at the lowest possible
force levels.

We note also recent expressions of concern within the US, by
Congresspeople, Nobel laureates, and other distinguished and
influential people and organizations.


America should not simply ignore the strongly repeated opinion of
governments and NGOs of the whole world, that NMD should not proceed, 
and that the integrity of  the ABM treaty should be maintained.

Missile defence schemes respond to an exaggerated perception of the
missile threat from so-called 'Rogue States', (now termed 'States of
Concern')  are not the solution to missile proliferation,  sabotage
nuclear disarmament efforts to which the US is legally committed along
with the rest of the world, and decrease overall US and international
security.

There are serious doubts  whether this system, or  whether any missile
defence system,  can ever work.  The problems posed even by relatively
simple decoys are probably technically insoluble. The Welch Panel, an
independent team of scientists,  released a report outlining the
probability of NMD systems failure due to time and schedule
constraints.

Instead of pursuing missile defence, it is vital that the US  focus on
practical solutions to global  strategic security.  We therefore urge
the US and Russia,  as the highest priority, to proceed to the
elimination of as many warheads as possible under any START-III
agreement, the removal of obstacles to the implementation of START-II,
 and  the removal of strategic missile forces from high alert status
as advocated by the Canberra Commission, subsequent UN resolutions and
the final NPT declaration.

Yours Sincerely,
(Signed)

Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition 2000, Santa Barbara, Calif., USA.,
Ian Maddocks, Chair, Dr. Mary Wynne-Asford, Co-President, Dr. John
Loretz, Program Director, International Physicians for the Prevention
of Nuclear War (IPPNW), BC Canada/Cambridge, USA., Kate Dewes,
Vice-President, International Peace Bureau (IPB), Geneva/NZ Bernice
Boermans, Executive Director, International Association of Lawyers
Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), Neth., Dan Plesch, Director,
British-American Security Information Council (BASIC),
Washington/London, Bruna Nota, International President, Womens
International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Geneva/NY., Dr.
John Burroughs,Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
(LCNP), NY/NZ., Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International,
Ghent, Belgium,

Ricardo Navarro, Chair, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI), El
Salvador/Amsterdam, Ricardo Navarro, Friends of the Earth El
Salvador,(CESTA) El Salvador, Jarna Pasaren, Friends of the Earth
Finland, Turku, Finland, Peep Mardiste, Friends of the Earth Estonia,
Tartu, Estonia, Victor Khazan, MP, Friends of the Earth Ukraine,
Member, Ukrainian Parliament. Kika Kapela, Friends of the Earth
Cyprus, Lonnenga Ginting, Campaign Director, Friends of the Earth
Indonesia (WALHI), Jakarta, Indonesia, Fahmi Rizal, WALHI-Acheh,
Daniel Sanchez, Amigos de la Tierra Espana, Madrid, Spain,

Commander Robert D. Green, RN (Retd.) Chair, World Court Project UK.,
NZ/UK., Dave Knight, Chair, Rae Street, Vice-Chair, CND UK., Dave
Webb, Yorkshire CND, Yorks, UK., Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands CND,
Birmingham, UK., R. Ralph Say, Woking Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND), UK., Jill Stallard, CND-Cymru, Wales, Anni Rainbow and Lindis
Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of US Bases, (CAAB), Yorkshire,
UK., Dr. Chris Busby, Low-Level Radiation Campaign, UK., Gillian
Reeve, Executive Director, MEDACT, UK., Jane Tallents,
Trident-Ploughshares, UK. Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO
Parliamentary Assembly, Vice-Chair, Defence and Security Committee,
David Drew MP, Westminster.,

Stephen Mc Closkey,  One World Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland,

Xanthe Hall, IPPNW-Germany, Berlin,
Regina Hagen, Darmstadter Friedensforum, Darmstadt, Germany,
Claus Biegert, Nuclear Free Future Award, Munich, Germany,
Eva Quistorp, Women for Peace, Berlin, Germany,
Manfred Stenner, Director, Network of the German Peace Movement, Bonn,
Germany, Wolfgang Schupp-Hauck, Friedens und Begegungsstaette
Mutlangen, Mutlangen, Germany,

Helene Connor, Director, HELIO International, Paris, France.,
Dr Josep Puig, Chair, Dr Joaquim Corominas, Vice-Chair, Scientists and
Technologists Group for a Non-Nuclear Future, Barcelona, Spain,

Martin Schwander, Swiss Peace Movement, Basel, Switz.,
David Schmitter, Global Initiative for Immediate Disarmament, Switz,

Malla Kantola, Secretary-General, Committee of 100 in Finland,
Helsinki, Finland, Ulla Lehtinen, President,  First Peoples, Turku,
Finland., Kirsten Osen, Vice-Chair, Anne Grieg MD, IPPNW Norway,
Horten, Norway.,

Jorma Kahanpaa, Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement,
Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden,
Agneta Norberg, 'Living Future', Sweden,
Agneta Norberg, Swedish Peace Committee,Sweden,
Agneta Norberg, Swedish Womens Left Association,Sweden,
Agneta Norberg, Peace in Kurdistan,Sweden,
Agneta Norberg, Peace in Iraq,Sweden,
Poul-Eck Sorensen, Peace Movement of Esbjerg, Denmark.,

Karel Koster, Project on European Nuclear Nonproliferation (PENN
-Netherlands), Neth.,
Hans Lammerant, Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Antwerp, Belgium,
Eloi Glorieux, MP, Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium,

Biljana Stevanovska, Association for Sustainable Development, Skopje,
Macedonia,

Vladimir Sliviak, 'ECODEFENSE', Russia,
Alisa Nikoulina, Social-Ecological Union Antinuclear Campaign, Moscow,
Galina Ragouzhina, World Information Service on Energy(WISE) Russia,
Alexandra Koroleva, Baltic Research and Action Centre, Kaliningrad,
Professor A.V. Yablokov, President, Centre for Russian Environmental
Policy, Moscow, Russia, Andrei Laletin, Chair, Friends of the Siberian
Forests, Russia, Nikolai Zubov, CEO, Krasnoyarsk Social-Ecological
Union, Russia,

Alla Shevchuck, Chairwoman, Odessa Branch Social-Ecological Union,
Odessa, Ukraine,

Paul Saoke, IPPNW, Kenya,
Boaz Fyler, Campaign Director, Green Action, Tel Aviv, Israel,
Roy Cabonegro, Secy-General, YSDA Phillipines,
Jean P. Patterson, Heredia Disarmament Committee, San Jose,
Costa-Rica., Luis Guttierez Esparza, President, Latin American Circle
for International Studies, Mexico City, Mexico, Grace De Haro, Suzanne
Schultz, Lihue Association, Patagonia, Argentina,

Alfred Felix Perez Aruaza, Environmental Strategic Research Council,
Uruguay, Alfredo Felix Perez Aruaza, Instituto de Estudios
Estrategicos No Alineado para la Paz Mundial, Uruguay, Eusebio Garcia
Varela, Mesa Ambientista de San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay, Blanca Nivia
Peirano, Corporacion Nacional de Ecologia y Turismo del Uruguay,
Gonzalo Ciganda, Instituto Naval de Arqueologica Subaciutica e
Investigaciones Marinas del Uruguay, Psilink Uruguay, Mesa Social
Coordinadora de NGO Independientes del Uruguay, Geovision Tercer
Milenio, Grupo de Derechos Civiles del Uruguay, Comision Nacional de
Solidaridad Uruguayo-Argentino, Felix Perez  Aruaza, South American
Peace Committee, Uruguay,

S. P. Udayakumar, South Asian Community Centre for Education and
Research, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India, Dr. Ronald Mc Coy, Chair,
Malaysian Physicians Against Nuclear War (IPPNW), Petaling Jaya,
Malaysia,

Siti Maimunah, Kappala Indonesia, East Java, Indonesia.,
Syafryzaldi, Walhi Sumbar, Padang, Indonesia.,
Rally Syumanda, deputy Director, ULAYAT, Bengkulu, Indonesia.,
Tanty Thamrin, Yayasan Pendidikan Rakyat Bulukumbu, Sulawesi,
Indonesia, Berry Nahdian Forquian, Executive Director, Yayasan
Cakrawala Hijau Indonesia, Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Youk Kyung Sook, Coordinator, Green Korea United, Seoul, S. Korea,
Chauyen Lai Shrestha, President, Youth Alliance for Development,
Kathmandhu, Nepal,

Niel Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival,(PGS) Canada.,
Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada., Dr. Rosalie Bertell,
International Institute of Concern for Public Health,(IICPH) Toronto,
Canada., David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms,
Canada., Dr. Joan Russow, National Leader,  Green Party of Canada,
Victoria, BC., Dave Greenfield, Green Party of Canada, Saskatoon
Chapter, Dr. Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership,
Vancouver, Linda Murphy, Inter-Church Uranium Committee, Sask, Canada,
Niel Sinclair, New Green Alliance, Sask, Canada, Tryna Booth, Canadian
Peace Alliance, Toronto, Canada, Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons, President,
Dr. Penelope Simons, Vice-President, The Simons Foundation, Vancouver,
BC, Canada,

Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll Jr, US Navy (Retd), Vice-President,
Centre for Defence Information,(CDI) Washington, USA., Barbara Hatch
Rosenberg, Program Director, Federation of American Scientists, (FAS),
NY, Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program Analyst, Tri-Valley CARES,
Livermore, Calif., USA., Alice Slater, President, Global Resource
Action Centre for the Environment (GRACE) NY, USA, Michael Marriott,
Director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), Washington,
USA., Bill Smirnow, Nuclear-Free New York, NY, USA., Ellen Thomas,
Executive Director, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC., USA.,
Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social
Responsibility (PSR), Washington DC, USA., Bruce Gagnon, Global
Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Gainesville,
Florida., Randall Forsberg, Director, Institute for Defence and
Disarmament Studies, Cambridge, Mass, Michael D. Intriligator,
Vice-Chair, Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR), UCLA, USA.,
Jennifer Olaranna Viereck, Director, HOME, Tecopa, Calif.., Bob
Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountains Conference,
United Church of Christ, Colorado, USA., Rev H.J. Grapes, Sanctuary of
Light Healing and Spiritual Centre, NY., USA., Don Reeves, General
Secretary, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA., Ruah Swennenfeldt/Stan Becker Clerk, Friends
Committee on Unity with Nature, Burlington Vermont USA., Rev. William
J. Morton SSC, Coordinator, Columban Mission Office, El Paso, Texas,
USA., Lori Redhair-Martin, Planetary Transformations, Grover Beach,
CA, USA., Ross Mc Cluney PhD, Principal Research Scientist, Florida
Solar Energy Centre, Florida,(pers. capy) Mark Colby, Office Manager,
Solar Energy International, Colo, USA., John Reese, Community Action
Network, Seattle, Wash, USA., Terry Gips, President, Alliance for
Sustainability, Minneapolis, Mn,USA., John M. Laforge, 'Nukewatch',
Wisconsin, USA., Paige Knight, Hanford Watch, Portland, Ore, USA.,
Barbara Weidener, Grandmothers for Peace International, Calif.., Alan
Moore, Peace and Justice Commission, City of Berkley, Alan Moore,
Patch Adams Peace and Justice Centre, Alan Moore, Butterfly Gardeners
Association, Anthony Guarisco, Alliance of Atomic Veterans, USA.,
Phyllis S. Yingling, Chair, Kay Camp, Former Chair, Womens
International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) USA., Yoshiko Ikuta
President, Women Speak out for Peace and Justice,(WILPF-Cleveland),
Cleveland Ohio, Margo Schepart, Coordinator, NO ESCAPE, NY, USA., Lynn
Sims, Don't Waste Oregon, Portland, Ore, USA., Deb Katz, Citizens
Awareness Network, Shelburne, Mass, USA., Sherry Larsen-Beville,
Livermore Conversion Project, Livermore, USA., Mary Byrd-Davis,
Yggdrassil Institute, Georgetown, KY, USA., Paul Williams, Green Party
of New Jersey, Atlantic City, NJ., Samara Dun, Just Act: Youth Action
for Global Justice, San Francisco, Calif., USA., Corrinne Carey, Don't
Waste Michigan, Grand Rapids, Mich, USA., Michael J. Keegan, Coalition
for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, Monroe, Mich., Keith Gunter, Citizens
Resistance at Fermi-Two, Monroe, Michigan, John M. Laforge, Nukewatch,
Wisconsin, USA., Mary-Anne Zepettello, Peace Action Central New York.,
Susan Shaer, Womens Action for New Directions, (WAND), Arlington, MA,
USA., Lt-Col WC Holmberg (Retd), President, Global Biorefineries,
Wash, DC., Tracy Moavero, Peace Action Education Fund, USA., Dr.
Kathleen Sullivan, Project EDNA, Brooklyn, NY., USA., Corbin Harney,
Shundahai Network, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA., Richard L. Salvador,
Pacific Island Association of NGOs, Honululu, Hawaii, USA.,

Marion Hancock, Coordinator, Peace Foundation, Aotearoa/NZ., Auckland,
NZ, Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, (DSC), Christchurch,
NZ., Dr. R. E. White, Deputy Director, Centre for Peace Studies,
University of Auckland, NZ., Jim Holdom, CORSO, Hamilton, NZ., Leona
Fay, Womens International League for Peace (WILPF), Christchurch, NZ,
Carol-Anne Bradford, Coalition for Gun Control, Auckland, NZ., Richard
Frizzell, Nelson Peace Group, Nelson, Aotearoa/NZ., Gerry Coates,
Founder, Engineers for Social Responsibility, Wellington, NZ., Larry
Ross, New Zealand Nuclear-Free Peacemaking Association, Christchurch,
NZ., Ian Shearer, Sustainable Energy Forum, Wellington, New Zealand,
Stewart Sontier, FAIR-NZ, Auckland, NZ., Kieth Locke, MP, Greens,
Aotearoa/NZ

Anthony Albanese MP, (ALP) Federal Member for Grayndler, NSW.,
Dr. Carmen Lawrence MP, (ALP) Federal Member for Fremantle, W.A.,
Kelly Hoare MP, (ALP) Federal Member for Charlton, NSW, Jan Mc
Farlane, (ALP) Federal Member for Stirling, W.A., Colin Hollis, (ALP)
Federal Member for Throsby, NSW., Senator Vicky Bourne, Foreign
Affairs Spokesperson for the Democrats, Democrat Senator for NSW.,
Senator George Campbell, ALP Senator for NSW, Senator Chris Schacht,
ALP Senator for SA., Senator Brian Grieg, Democrat Senator for W.A.,
Cheryl Davenport, MLC, Member for South Metropolitan, W.A., Norm Kelly
MLC, Member for North Metropolitan, W.A., Lee Rhiannon MLC (Greens)
NSW., Richard Jones MLC, (Ind) NSW., Kerrie Tucker MLA, Greens Member
for Molonglo ACT, Don Nardella MLA, ALP Member for Melton, Vic., Gis
Watson MLC, Member for North Metropolitan, W.A., Gareth Smith, Nuclear
Disarmament Party, Vic., Dr. Susan Wareham, Medical Association for
the Prevention of War (MAPW) Canberra, Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace
Committee, Adelaide, SA, Babs Fuller-Quinn, Australian Peace Committee
Sydney, Jack Forward, Central Coast Peace Forum, Doreen Burrows, South
Coast Peace Committee, George Gotsis, Greek Peace Committee, (Sydney)
Brian Miller, Hiroshima Day Committee Sydney Jo Vallentine, People For
Nuclear Disarmament (PND) W.A., Scientists and Technologists Against
Nuclear Dumping (STAND) W.A., Robin Chapple, Anti-Nuclear Alliance of
W.A., Hannah Middleton, Anti-Bases Campaign, Denis Doherty, Pax
Christi NSW Reverend Professor James Haire, President, Uniting Church
in Australia, Rev. Greg Thompson, St Johns Anglican Church
Darlinghurst, NSW., Pauline Mitchell, Campaign for International
Cooperation and Disarmament, (CICD) Melb, Vic., Jacob Grech,
Earthworker, Trades Hall, Melb., Cherie Hoyle, Urban Ecology
Australia, Kirsten Blair, Coordinator, Environment Centre of the
Northern Territory (ECNT), Darwin, NT, Rowena Skinner, Environment
Centre of W.A.(ECWA), Perth, W.A., Glenn Marshall, Arid Lands
Environment Centre (ALEC), Alice Springs, NT., Dave Sweeney, Nuclear
Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Melb., Alec
Marr, Campaign Director, The Wilderness Society,(TWS), Canberra,
Margaret Reynolds, United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA),
John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia
Sydney, Australia,