The first review meeting of the 60 countries who have so-far ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) agreed at the UN in 2017, is to take place from 21-23 June 2022 in Vienna.
Meanwhile Russia and NATO countries are making nuclear threats against each other over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
It’s reported that, after 14 years, US nuclear weapons are returning to this Lakenheath, Suffolk. In addition, French and US nuclear-missile armed submarines have joined UK Trident ones at their base at Faslane, Scotland. These actions seem clearly meant as nuclear warnings to Russia.
On Thursday 16 June European-wide actions will call on NATO countries & Russia to renounce such threats and to sign the TPNW.
In London on the 16th there will be half-hour vigils at the Russian, French and German Embassies and at 10 Downing Street calling on the four countries to renounce the threat of nuclear weapon use and to sign the TPNW. There will also be leafleting of the general public at each place and on the walk and statements handed in.
The timetable is:
10-10.30am: vigil near the Russian Embassy at the junction of Kensington Palace Gardens and Bayswater Road, W8
11-11.30am: vigil at the French Embassy at 58 Knightsbridge SW1
Noon-12.30pm: vigil at German Embassy, 23 Belgrave Square/Chesham Place SW1.
1.30-2pm: vigil outside gate to Downing Street.
They’ll be taking the tube between the Russian and French Embassies and walking from the French Embassy to Downing Street via the German Embassy. Join them wherever you like.
Trident Ploughshares, supported by CND