Mvh.
Kai Braathen
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>From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <nonukes@foesyd.org.au>
>To: y2k-nuclear@egroups.com, y2k-nukes@envirolink.org,
Abolition-caucus@igc.org, abolition-europe@vlberlin.comlink.de
>Subject: RESOLUTION IN EUROPEAN PARLT RE Y2K NUKES FAX OR EMAIL BY MON.27th IF POSS
>Date: søn 26. sep 1999 06:46
>
>UPCOMING RESOLUTION IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ON Y2K/DE-ALERTING NUKES
>
>CAN YOU FAX AND EMAIL THESE LETTERS TO THESE PEOPLE BY 27/30 SEPT? IT WILL
>MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE!
>
>Dear People,
>
>The deadline for lobbying on the resolution in the European parliament on
>de-alerting nuclear weapons and shutting down nuclear plants for the Y2K
>rollover is again approaching.
>
>The new timetable for lobbying for a resolution in the European Parliament
>on Y2K and the de-alerting of nuclear weapons is as follows.
>- further resolution preps in week of 27 Sept in Brux;
>- meeting of urgency coordinators in Brux. to set agenda (usually 5 items)
>on Thursday morning, Sept 30th;
>- deadline for tabling, Mon Oct 4th in Strasbourg.
>- debate and vote Thursday, Oct 7th in Strasbourg.
>
>This means that the deadline for lobbying is really 27 September, and
>absolutely by 30September.
>
>Ideally, you should fax and email people by Monday.
>
>If you want this resolution to get on to the agenda and to pass, you will
>need to write letters by 27th and fax them and email them to the adresses
>below. Your faxing and emailing really really makes a difference, so please
>try to do it by the 27th!
>
>Below is who to fax and their fax numbers, a big list of people to email,
>and sample letters.
>
>1) PEOPLE TO FAX
>2) ADRESSES TO EMAIL
>3) SAMPLE LETTERS
>
>1) PEOPLE TO FAX
>(Note that you will have to insert your own national ISD access codes where
>the + is. In Australia thats 0015 or 0011)
>1) HANS- GERT POETTERING MEP, Chairperson of the EPP (Christian democrat)
>faction of the EP
>FAX NUMBERS:+ 33-3-8817-9311, +32-2-284-9311
>
>2)BROK M. ELMAR, MEP, CHAIR, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE OF THE EPP
>+33-3-8817-9323, +32-2-284-9323
>
>3)PAT COX, MEP, CHAIR OF THE LIBERAL/DEMOCRAT/REFORM GROUP OF THE EP
>+33-3-8817-9363, +32-2-284-9363
>(Note that Pat Cox may be sympathetic to the idea of a resolution on Y2K
>and De-Alerting)
>
>2) EMAIL ADRESSES TO SEND TO:
>The following email adresses cover most of the European Parliament - the
>Socialist, Green, Green-Left and EPP factions.
>
>wrothley@europarl.eu.int, drothbehren@europarl.eu.int,
>cradzio@europarl.eu.int, wpiecyk@europarl.eu.int,
>fperezroyo@europarl.eu.int, propoletano@europarl.eu.int,
>rmyller@europarl.eu.int, smurphy@europarl.eu.int, emorgan@europarl.eu.int,
>e.morgan.mep@geo2.poptel.org.uk, bmiller@europarl.eu.int,
>mmedina@europarl.eu.int, emcnally@europarl.eu.int, lmcoron@europarl.eu.int,
>dmartin@europarl.eu.int, gluttge@europarl.eu.int, rlinkohr@europarl.eu.int,
>B.Lange@link-h.comlink.apc.org, clage@eurparl.eu.int, Krehl@epri.org,
>hkuhne@europarl.eu.int, glenys.kinnock@geo2.poptel.org.uk,
>nkindermann@europarl.eu.int, kjunker@europarl.eu.int,
>kjans@europarl.eu.int, jizquierdo@europarl.eu.int, jhume@europarl.eu.int,
>jhome@europarl.eu.int, ahulten@europarl.eu.int, shughes@europarl.eu.int,
>106403.352@compuserve.com, rhowitt@europarl.eu.int, mhoff@europarl.eu.int,
>lgroener@eurpoarl.eu.int, L.Groener.mep@t-online.de,
>nglante@europarl.eu.int, norbert.glante@emails.de,
>fghillardotti@europarl.eu.int, egebhardt@europarl.eu.int,
>ggarot@europarl.eu.int, hettl@spoe.or.at, nettl@spoe.or.at,
>hettl@europarl.eu.int, nettl@europarl.eu.int, pberes@europarl.eu.int,
>ebaroncrespo@europarl.eu.int, fblak@europarl.eu.int, fblok@europarl.eu.int,
>dbowe@europarl.eu.int, mail@davidbowe.demon.co.uk, acompos@europarl.eu.int,
>fbertinotti@europarl.eu.int, aalavonos@europarl.eu.int,
>kcoates@europarl.eu.int, sainardi@europarl.eu.int,
>ccarnero@europarl.eu.int, lcastellina@europarl.eu.int,
>vephrimidis@europarl.eu.int, meriksson@europarl.eu.int,
>fwurtz@europarl.eu.int, lvinci@europarl.eu.int,
>amohamedali@europarl.eu.int, fbertinotti@europarl.eu.int,
>melmalan@europarl.eu.int, apuerta@europarl.eu.int,
>lgonzalezalvarez@europarl.eu.int, cripameana@europarl.eu.int,
>gmoreau@europarl.eu.int, apailler@europarl.eu.int, lwynn@europarl.eu.int,
>pwhithead@europarl.eu.int, mwatts@europarl.eu.int,
>ralf.walter.mdep@t-online.de, dtsatsos@europarl.eu.int,
>gtitley@europarl.eu.int, avalenti@psc.es, stockmann@epri.org,
>pskinner@europarl.int, G.SCHMID@LINK-R.DE, gruffolo@europarl.eu.int,
>dcohnbendit@europarl.eu.int, maglietta@europarl.eu.int,
>nahern@europarl.eu.int, 106114.173@compuserve.com,
>ubloch@europarl.eu.int, undine.vonblottnitz@t-online.de,
>vonblottnitz@epri.org, maelvoet@europarl.int, magda.aelvoet@agalev.be,
>hbreyer@europarl.eu.int, hiltrud.breyer @gruene.de,
>fgraefe@europarl.eu.int, uholm@europarl.eu.int, ulf.holm@mp.se,
>hkerr@europarl.eu.int, wkriessl@europarl.eu.int,
>jlagendijk@europarl.eu.int, europa@groenlinks.nl,
>plannoye@europarl.eu.int, fdupont@compuserve.com,
>mlindholm@europarl.eu.int, malou.lindholm@mp.se, pmckenna@europarl.eu.int,
>106375.3114@compuserve.com, emueller@europarl.eu.int, pcoxmep@tinet.ie,
>hpoettering@europarl.eu.int, edith.mueller-mdep@t-online.de,
>lorlando@europarl.eu.int, orla003@pn.itnet.it,
>eschroedter@europarl.eu.int, eschroedt@aol.com,
>ischorling@europarl.eu.int, inger.schorling@mp.se,
>isoltwedel@europarl.eu.int, 106204.167@compuserve.com,
>gtamino@europarl.eu.int, wtelkaemper@europarl.eu.int,
>clucas@europarl.eu.int, w.telkaemper@3landbox.comlink.apc.org,
>wulmann@europarl.eu.int, jvoggenhuber@europarl.eu.int,
>imitmasser@gruene.at, ebrok@t-online.de, ebrok@europarl.eu.int,
>per-arne.arvidsson@moderat.se, parvidsson@europarl.eu.int,
>mbanotti@europarl.eu.int, johnbowis@aol.com, jbowis@europarl.eu.int,
>sbl@moderat.se, lburentsam@europarl.eu.int, bushillm@aol.com,
>buttiglione-r@camera.it, rboege@europarl.eu.int,
>martin@mcallanan.freeserve.co.uk, mcallanan@europarl.eu.int,
>gcarlsson@europarl.eu.int, gunilla.carlsson@moderat.se,
>charlotte.cederschiold@moderat.se, gchichester@europarl.eu.int,
>GilesChichester MEP@eclipse.co.uk, jcorrie@europarl.eu.int,
>ccostaneves@europarl.eu.int, acunha@europarl.eu.int,
>gdeprez@europarl.eu.int, nirjdevamep@hotmail.com, ddover@demon.co.uk,
>ddover@europarl.eu.int, adoyle@europarl.eu.int, mebner@europarl.eu.int,
>direktion@athesia.it, jelles@europarl.eu.int, jevans@europarl.eu.int,
>mferber@europarl.eu.int, ffiori@europarl.eu.int,
>ifriedrich@europarl.eu.int, awijkman@europarl.eu.int,
>anders.wijkman@kristdemokrat.se, wgvelzen@europarl.eu.int,
>wgvelzen@worldonline.nl, dvarela@europarl.eu.int,
>stillich@europarl.eu.int, sttpaku@t-online.de, mthyssen@europarl.eu.int,
>dtheato@europarl.eu.int, mgahler@europarl.eu.int,
>michael.gahler@t-online.de, cgo@fundacion-entoano.org,
>jgilrobles@europarl.eu.int, aglase@europarl.eu.int,
>agomolka@europarl.eu.int, rgoodwill@europarl.eu.int, vgm@mail.telepac.pt,
>eu.info@skynet.be, dan@hannan.co.uk, hansenne@skynet.be, ,
>malcolm_harbour@compuserve.com, manor_cottage@compuserve.com,
>chris@hhhome.tory.org.uk, wfoster@clara.net, rhieronymi@europarl.eu.int,
>hieronymi@t-online.de, cjackson@europarl.eu.int, gjackson@europarl.eu.int,
>gjarzembowski@europarl.eu.int, gjarzembowski@compuserve.com,
>ejeggle@europarl.eu.int, kontakt@eurojeggle.de, piia-noora.kauppi@ouka.fi,
>piia-noora.kauppi@aristos.fi, cklass@europarl.eu.int,
>
>3) HERE IS THE LETTER TO SEND (PLEASE CUSTOMISE)
>
>
>TO:
>HANS-GERT POETTERING MEP, 33-3-8817-9311, 32-2-284-9311
>BROK M.ELMAR MEP, 33-3-8817-9323, 32-2-284-9323,
>PAT COX MEP, 33-3-8817-9363, 32-2-284-9363,
>
>Dear Hans-Gert Poettering, Pat Cox, and Brok M. Elmar,
>
>I am writing in support of an urgency motion on Y2K, Nuclear weapons,
>nuclear reactors, and other risks which was to have been placed on the
>agenda of the EP on Monday 13 September. I understand that it is now
>possibly to be placed on the agenda in October, and that a meeting of
>urgency coordinators will consider it on September 30th.
>
>A resolution on Y2K and nuclear weapons was passed unanimously in the
>Australian Senate on Aug 12 and another on September 20th. A resolution has
>also been presented to the Canadian senate.
>
>It is a pity that it was not possible for this motion, urgent and timebound
>as it is, to have been placed on the agenda at the earliest possible
>moment. The issues it addresses are both of the utmost gravity, and require
>action at the earliest possible stage. There are now only just over 100
>days to the Y2K rollover.
>
>The motion sought to address the risks of nuclear reactor accidents, and
>possible accidental nuclear war as a result of Y2K- related computer errors.
>
>Specifically, it was to have addressed the problem of Y2K computer-error
>induced accidental nuclear launches by the simple, cost-free, and risk-free
>measure of standing down nuclear forces or De-Alerting.
>
>It is disturbing that a clear commitment to De-Alerting was in fact excised
>from the motion, presumably because it was felt that the PPE would not
>accept de-alerting.
>
>If that is indeed your position it is a gravely and dangerously mistaken
>one. We urge you to reverse it. De-Alerting has in fact, neither costs nor
>risks. Failure to de-alert or stand down nuclear forces on the other hand,
>risks potentially, the ultimate catastrophe. It is literally to play
>Russian roulette with the entire planet.
>
>De-Alerting, or standing down nuclear forces, was of course recommended by
>the Canberra Commission in 1996, and was called for by subsequent
>resolutions of the UN general Assembly.
>
>It has been said that without verification, De-Alerting would cause more
>rather than less uncertainty over the Y2K rollover period.
>
>There are two responses to this. The first is that it is not in fact too
>difficult to ensure that De-Alerting is verifiable by mutual inspection.
>
>The second response is that this is in any case simply not the case.
>Verification is certainly highly desirable, but ANY move to a lower alert
>status by either or both sides of a nuclear 'pair' such as the US and
>Russia makes the likelihood of an accidental nuclear exchange much lower.
>
>In this context it is worth noting that the UK has already moved its
>'notice to fire' for its submarine force from seconds to days. This measure
>is not easily verifiable but it is nonetheless of immense benefit in
>assuring strategic stability.
>
>De-Alerting, verifiable or not, creates a 'firebreak' that ensures that,
>faced with Y2K induced uncertainty, there is the opportunity to verify
>possibly or probably false warning data, and to take rational decisions.
>
>Under normal circumstances, without De-Alerting, and under the prevailing
>doctrine of ' launch on warning', the existence of roughly 5,500 US and
>Russian land-based ICBMs capable of being fired within 20 minutes, and with
>flight times of 20-40 minutes (and much shorter for submarine- launched
>missiles), gives decision-makers extremely short times in which to
>retaliate against an attack which may not be taking place at all.
>
>Finally, De-Alerting has been recommended as a measure that is desirable in
>and of itself quite apart from any Y2K - related considerations. It is as
>if, in driving an LPG tanker around a particularly sharp bend, we are
>reminded that we should obey the speed limit and ensure that our brakes and
>steering work. Obviously it is best to keep to the speed limit and have
>working brakes and steering at all times.
>
>That the risk of Y2K - related computer glitches in the systems that
>control and monitor nuclear weapons is taken very seriously indeed by the
>US and Russia is shown in their current negotiations aimed at exchanging
>personnel between command centres and setting up a joint 'strategic
>stability centre' in Colorado.
>
>We applaud the efforts to do this, but it is worrying that the Colorado
>centre is scheduled to become operational only on December27. A four - day
>delay will render it useless.
>
>The Y2K resolution also contains a variety of other measures, intended to
>minimise the probability of Y2K- induced reactor accidents and other major
>safety problems. These measures are especially relevant to eastern European
>and CIS reactors, but it should not be assumed that western European plants
>will be immune to Y2K induced problems, especially if electricity grids are
>affected as seems entirely possible. I strongly commend all of these
>reactor safety measures to the PPE and the Liberal Democrat/Reform groups.
>
>I urge both PPE/CD groups and Liberal Democrat groups to support this
>resolution as a very high and extremely urgent priority, and specifically
>to support De-Alerting or standing down nuclear forces in the light of Y2K.
>
>I trust that this responsible, risk- free, and cost -free measure will gain
>your partys support at the very earliest opportunity.
>
>John Hallam,
>Nuclear Campaigner,
>Friends of the Earth.
>
>John Hallam
>Friends of the Earth Sydney,
>17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
>Fax(61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903
>nonukes@foesyd.org.au http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
>http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html
>
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