Alliance launches popular initiative for nuclear weapons ban treaty
Published: Tuesday, Jul 2nd 2024, 12:00
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The Alliance for a Ban on Nuclear Weapons is launching its popular initiative on Tuesday for Switzerland to join the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The treaty aims to outlaw nuclear weapons worldwide and achieve their complete abolition.
The initiative will be presented this afternoon by the initiative committee. Its members include Carlo Sommaruga, member of the SP Council of States in Geneva, and Marionna Schlatter, member of the Green National Council in Zurich, as well as representatives of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the Group for a Switzerland without an Army (Gsoa).
The signatories include former Federal Councillor Micheline Calmy-Rey (SP), the President of the Swiss Green Party, Lisa Mazzone, and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Jacques Dubochet.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which supplements the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, came into force in 2021 and was ratified by 70 states, but not by the owners of nuclear weapons and their allies. The Federal Council had only spoken out against it in March.
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