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January 11, 2011
Council Meeting: January 11, 2011 Santa Monica, California
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE -MEMORANDUM
To: City Council
From: Mayor Bloom and Mayor Pro Tem Davis
Date: January 11, 2011
13-D: Request of Mayor Bloom and Mayor pro Tem Gleam Davis that the City of
Santa Monica join '°Mayors for Peace" a conference of cities led by
Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a goal of changing policies of governments
that target cities with nuclear weapons and ultimately, eliminating nuclear
weapons.
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i4 December 2010
Mayor Richard Bloom
Santa Monica City Hall
1685 Main Street, Room 209
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Dear Mayor Bloom:
2046 Fourteenth Street, # 11
Santa Monica, CA 90405
With your commencement of a new teen as our mayor, we write to set up a meeting with
you to discuss Santa Monica becoming a part of Mayors for Peace, the international
movement to abolish nuclear weapons. As Santa Monica peacemakers, who have lived and
worked here for decades, we find it odd and, frankly, dangerous that the city has failed to
take a clear stance against the continued threat the existence of nuclear arsenals poses to each
of its residents and visitors, who are now tazgeted.
Driven by cities across the planet, the Mayors for Peace initiative seeks to abolish nuclear
weapons by 2020. At this point, more than 4,000 cities worldwide, half of the capitals, half
of the largest urban centers and more than 160 United States cities have joined Mayors for
Peace. Last year, Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, who leads the effort as its president,
addressed a plenary session of the United States Conference of Mayors to share the 2020
Vision Campaign (http://www.2020visioncam~aign.org), and this year the conference passed
a resolution supporting the commitment.
Some of us, last summer, tried to begin a conversation with the late Mayor Genser about Santa
Monica participating in the effort, but, unfortunately, his illness and death prevented much
progress. Certainly, now is the time for Santa Monica to act and add to the groundswell,
especially as the United States Senate considers ratifying the New START Treaty.
Nothing could more of a local concern than making sure that our self-government, on every
level, safeguards its people against what President Kennedy chillingly declared in 1961
before the United Nations to be "a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of
threads."
Please make contact with Mr. Randy Ziglar or Ms. Cris Gutierrez at (310) 452-0362 or by
e-mail at rand~g ar(cr~,hotmail.com or cristeachnn,earthlink.net respectively, to arrange a
meeting with you as soon as possible so that we can begimtogether to express Santa
Monica's voice on the matter.
With steadfast sp~i~r/it's,
Blase $onpane, ffi e of the Americas
Th sa onnane, Of ce of the
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Reverend RebegCa Benefiel Bijur, Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica
stCris Gutierrez, Los ~r g'eles Area for Nuclear Disarmament Coalition
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ofessor Christine Holmgr Santa Monica College
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Father Tim Klosterman, St. Monica's Catholic Church
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Ms. S an McCorry, Santa Monica Master Gardener
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everend Janet McKeithen, Church at Ocean Pazk
-~M~s. Linda Piera-Avila, Santa Monica Urban Forest Task Force Member
Mr. Randglaz, Los Angeles Area for Nuclear Disarmament Coalition
cc: Council Member Gleam Davis, Mayor Pro Tempore
Council Member Robert Holbrook
Council Member Kevin McKeown
Council Member Pam O'Connor
Council Member Terry O'Day
Council Member Bobby Shriver
iWlayors for i'eace
/ J~ /: Secretariat
C/O Hiroshima Peace Culture Pounda[ion. I-5 Nakajima-cho Naka-ku hiroshima 730-0811 .lapan
Phone:81-82-242-7821 Fax:81-82-242-7452 E-mail..-mayorcont~pcECify.hiroshima.jp
Dear yellow Mayor,
November 2010
I trust this letter finds you well
1 am writing today to invite you to join Mayors for Peace, a conference of cities led by
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
As you know, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were instantly obliterated by atomic bombings in August
1945. Hundreds of thousands of precious lives were lost. To avoid any repetition of this
horrifying tragedy, the A-bombed cities have worked continuously to communicate to the world
the inhumanity of the atomic bombings and the need to abolish nuclear weapons.
Mayors for Peace was founded in 1982 by the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to promote the
total elimination of nuclear weapons as a vital step toward genuine and lasting world peace. In
2003 with 500 member cities, we launched a 2020 Vision Campaign aiming at the total abolition
of nuclear weapons by 2020. Today, our 4,301 members in 149 countries and regions are
engaged in a wide variety of peace activities across the globe.
U.S. President Obama's call fora "world without nuclear weapons" in Prague in April 2009
raised expectations throughout the international community. Later in 2009, with President
Obama presiding, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution for the abolition of
nuclear weapons. In 2010, the United States and Russia committed themselves to a new
START. Mayors for Peace has been an integral part of this movement, demonstrating
conclusively that cities around the world are united in demanding that the nucleaz-weapon states
change their nuclear policies and lead us to the nuclear-weapon-free world they have promised
for so long.
Mayors for Peace has been raising international public awareness through a broad spectrum of
activities of the 2020 Vision. We proposed the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, a roadmap
governments should follow to achieve anuclear-weapon-free world. We have also been
gathering signatures on a grassroots petition asserting that Cities Are Not Targets. Through this
project, we are demanding assurances that no populated azeas are targeted for annihilation by
nuclear weapons. This past May, we formed a mayoral delegation that attended the NPT
(Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) Review Conference to directly urge national representatives
to abolish nuclear weapons at the earliest possible date.
Because we are so determined to eliminate nuclear weapons by 2020, we are now studying the
feasibility of hosting the 2020 Olympic Games in Hiroshima. We would do so as a "festival of
peace" celebrating our planet's liberation from nuclear weapons. We have been amazed by the
vocal public support this idea has received from cities azound Japan, and endorsements continue
to flow in as the idea spreads around the world. By joining Mayors for Peace, you can greatly
strengthen our bid for the Olympics and, most importantly, our bid to eliminate nuclear weapons
before they eliminate us.
To help abolish nuclear weapons and bequeath to our children a cleaner, safer, more peaceful and
sustainable world, please jom Mayors for Peace and take an active role in our campaign.
I close with my best wishes for your continued good health and sound growth for your city.
Sincerely yours,
Ja.P~d
Tadatoshi Akiba
Mayor of Hiroshima
President
Mayors for Peace
To Dc Tadatoshi Akiba
Mayor of Hiroshima
President of Mayors for Peace
! hereby express my city/municipality's support for the abolition of nuclear weapons and desire to join
Mayors for Peace.*
Name of your country;
Name of your city/municipality:,
Mayor's
Gender:^Male ^Female
Contact person
Name: Gender:OMale ^Female
E-mail
Mayor's
*This registration form implies your city/municipality's decision to join Mayors for Peace. If your
city/municipality requires specific procedures, including approval from your city/municipal council, please
submit this form after such procedures are completed. _
Please send this form to:
Mayors for Feace Secretariat
FAX : +g1-82-242-7452
E-mail : mayorcon@pcfcity.hiroshimajp
Three Minute Talking Points
Hiroshima Protocol
1. Nuclear weapons not only destroy military targets, but they kill
vast numbers of civilians and we civilians in the LA basin are
prime targets. Cities are concerned for their citizens and that is
why nearly 4301 cities worldwide have joined Mayors for Peace
and are now calling for completing disarmament by 2020 with
this resolution.
2. It is unconscionable, as a civilized people, to use these weapons
against other civilian populations. How many children dying is
acceptable collateral damage?
In an international poll late last year, 77% of Americans strongly
or somewhat favored elimination of nuclear weapons.
4. The cost to maintain our nuclear arsenal is $50 billion dollars a
year or more than $160 dollars for every person in the US -and
we can't even use them.
S. If we want other nations such as Pakistan, India, North Korea or
Iran to eliminate or not produce their own nuclear weapons, we,
Russia, France, Brittan and China need to lead by example.
6. Eliminating thousand of warheads and reducing the number of
third world countries that have them is the best defense against
terrorist use of nuclear weapons.
This is not a unilateral disarmament, but a staged and coordinated
effort with the other nations who have these weapons and
implementing protocols to verify reduction and elimination.
Making citizens safer, saving money, leading the world away from
the brink of disaster, reducing terrorist threats -how can we not
support this effort at eliminating nuclear weapons?
(Letterhead)
Dear Mr./Ms. (councilperson/mayor):
The Mayors for Peace program is an opportunity for our city to stand in
solidarity with more than 4301 (up from 28001ast year) cities
worldwide and 163 (up from 1341ast year) cities in the United States
against the use and maintenance of nuclear weapons. Mayors for Peace
is an NGO of the United Nations and was founded in 1982. Their
mission statement is:
The Mayors for Peace, through close cooperation among the cities,
strives to raise international public awareness regarding the need to
abolish nuclear weapons and contributes to the realization of
genuine and lasting world peace by working to eliminate starvation
and poverty, assist refugees fleeing local conflict, support human
rights, protect the environment, and solve the other problems that
threaten peaceful coexistence within the human family.
We are a member organization of the Los Angeles Area Nuclear
Disarmament Coalition (LAANDC). This coalition is promoting August 6-
9, 2011 as a period to remember the dropping of the atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki to help us focus on the need to eliminate our
nuclear arsenal. There is presidential and congressional commitment to
ratify the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), but we need Senate
ratification. There are also efforts to strengthen and expand the Non-
proliferation Treaty. We all need to support these efforts.
We ask you to consider (city) joining the Mayors for Peace and standing
with a growing number of cities in California that believe in peace and a
world without nuclear weapons.
Sincerely,
California Member Cities
Berkeley(CA)('88.2)
Carmel-by-the-Sea(CA)('85.6)
Compton(CA)('93.7)
Dublin(CA)('05.2)
Fairfax(CA)('07.10)
Fresno(CA)('85.5)
Irvine(CA)('85.4)
La Mesa(CA)('09.7)
Long Beach(CA)('05.5)
Los Angeles(CA)('88.7)
Lynwood(CA)('93.8)
Marina(CA)('85.6)
Oakland(CA)('07.8)
Palo Alto(CA)('85.5)
Petaluma(CA)('09.12)
Richmond(CA)('07.10)
San Francisco(CA)('83.8)
San Leandro(CA)('09.2)
San Pablo (CA)('10.5)
Santa Barbara(CA)('02.9)
Santa Cruz(CA)('88.2)
Saratoga(CA)('85.4)
Sebastopol(CA)('98.2)
Signal Hill(CA)('09.10)
Wasco(CA)('05.9)
Sacramento(CA)('85.4)
South Pasadena(CA)('93.7)
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November 2010
The City of Hiroshima
Mayors for Peace
1 Outline
In August 1945, single atomic bombs dropped an the
cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki instantaneously
reduced them to rubble, taking vast numbers of
precious lives. To ensure that the atomic tragedy is
never repeated anywhere on earth, Hiroshima and
Nagasaki have consistently sought to persuade the
world that nuclear weapons aze inhumane and have
continually called for their total abolition.
On June 24 1982, at the 2nd Special Session on
.Disarmament held at United Nations Headquarters in
New York, [he mayor of Hiroshima announced the
Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, a
plan to build transnational solidarity among cities to facilitate collective efforts toward the
elimination of nuclear weapons. The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki issued a joint call to
cities everywhere to support this program.
Mayors for Peace is a conference of cities that have expressed their support for the program
described above. In March 1990, we were registered as an NGO with the United Nations
Department of Public Information; Category II status (now called "NGO in Special Consultative
Status") with the United Nations Economic and Social Council was granted in May 1991.
2 HistoryofActivities
Date Activities
June 1982 Called for "Inter-ci Solidarit " ro am at the 2"d [JN S ecial Session on Disarmament
Au ust 1985 Held lu World Conference of Ma ors for Peace throw h Inter-ci Solidari
June 1988 Attended 3rd S ecial Session on Disarmament at tJN Head ostlers
Au usi 1989 Held 2"d World Conference of Ma ors for Peace throw h Inter-cit Solidari
Au ust 1993 Held 3`d World Conference of Ma ors for Peace throw h Interci Solidari
A ril 1995 Attended NPT Review and Extension Conference
Au st 1997 Held 4d' World Conferenceof Ma ors for Peace throw hinter-ci Solidari
Ma 2000 Attended NPT Review Conference at UN Head uarters in New York
August 2001 Held 5`" World Conference of Mayors for Peace through Inter-city Solidarity; renamed
"Ma ors for Peace"
A ri12003 Attended 2"d NPT Pre arato Committee meetin
November 2003 Ollrcially launched "2020 Vsion Campaign (Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear
Wea ons "
A ril 2004 Led Ma oral Dele ation to 3rd NPT Pre arato Committee meetin
Ma 2005 Led Ma oral Dele a[ion to NPT Review Conference
Au ust 2005 Held 6` Genernl Conference of Ma ors for Peace
Iu(y 2006 Launched Good Faith Challenge and Cities Are Not Targets (CANT) project at events in
The Ha ue Netherlands commemorntin lOd' anniversa of ICI adviso o inion
A ril 2007 Led Ma oral Dele ation to I"NPT Pre arnto Committee Meetin
A tit 2008 Launched Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol at 2" NPT Prepazatory Committee Meeting
June 2008 Sent letter to all member cities requesting support for Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol
Ma 2009 Led Mayornl Delegation to 3` NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting
Au ust 2009 Held 7d' General Conference of Ma ors for Peace
May 2010 Led Mayoral Delegation (89 people from 30 cities in (0 countries) to NPT Review
Conference in New York
Submitted 1,577 mayoral petitions for Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol; 1,024,820 CANT
civil etitions to President Cabactulan, NPT Review Conference
Mayors for Peace Secretariat
c/o :Peace and [ntema[ional Solidarity Promotion Division,
Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation
TEL : +SI-82-242-7821 FAX : +8]-82-242-7452
E-mail : mayorcon@pcfcityhitoshimajp
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,ilayors for Peace
The 2020 Vision
(An Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons)
1 Outline
U.S. President Obama called fora "world without
nuclear weapons" in Prague in April 2009. A
unanimous UN Security Council resolution calls for the
abolition of nuclear weapons. The United States and
Russia have committed themselves to a new START.
Momentum is building, and much of it can be attributed
to Mayors for Peace. In 2003, we launched an
">;mergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons" that
quickly became our "2020 Vision," a program to eliminate all nuclear weapons by the year
2020, the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Mayors
for Peace, other associations of local authorities, Parliamentarians, NGOs, Tike-minded
national governments, and concerned citizens around the world have been working together
to promote this campaign.
The 2020 Vision Campaign has received support from numerous prestigious organizations,
including the EU Parliament, U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM), International Physicians
for the Prevention of Nucleaz War (IPPNW), National Conference of Black Mayors, Japan
Association of City Mayors, Japah Council of Nuclear-Free Local Authorities, and United
Cities and Local Governments (UCLG).
2 Major Activities
(1) "The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol"
Mayors for Peace announced the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, a roadmap to a
nuclear-weapon-free world by 2020, at the NPT PrepCom in Geneva in April 2008.
For two years we asked governments to support the Protocol, with over 1,600 mayors'
petitions to this effect. Although the Protocol was not adopted at the NPT Review
Conference last May as originally intended, the final documents adopted at the Review
mention the necessity of the legal framework and a clear timeframe towards the total
abolition of nuclear weapons.
to reach these outcomes. We believe that the steps stipulated in the Protocol are the
best way to achieve a nucleaz-weapon-free world by 2020.
(2) Cities Are Not Targets (CANT)
Cities have sent a powerful message to nuclear-weapon states. We are no longer
willing to be held hostage to international political machinations. Nuclear weapons are
inhumane, illegal weapons, and cities around the world need assurances from
nuclear-weapon states that they are not and will not be targeted for annihilation. Based
on these ideas, we collected over one million signatures to that end. Working closely
with other NGOs, we will develop new campaign tactics.
We believe international momentum worked effectively
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Outline of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol
1 Purpose
The 2020 Vision Campaign (Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons) seeks the abolition
of nuclear weapons by 2020. The "Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol" proposed in April 2008
presents an outline of actions leading to that goal.
The Mayors for Peace campaign sought adoption ofthis protocol at the NPT Review Conference
in 2010. Unfortunately, our goal was not achieved.
Nevertheless, at the Review Conference, the representative of Japanese delegation mentioned
some ingredients of the Protocol in his speech, and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also gave his
assessment. We recognize the huge influence of international public opinion generated by NGOs,
such as Mayors for Peace, in including legal and time frameworks to abolish nuclear weapons in
the final documents adopted at the Review Conference. We continue to work to establish
effective measures to use extracts from this Protocol, to realize a world without nuclear weapons
at the earliest possible date.
2 Framework
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol
- a roadmap to anuclear-weapon free world by 2020 -
All states shall cease all activities related to the acquisition and deployment of nuclear
weapons.
i Ali states shall commence ~mmedrately and bring to conclusion good-faith negotiations
leading to an international framework agreement on nucleaz weapons abolition.
All states shall commit themselves to a Nuclear Weapons Convention or comparable treaty by
2015; all activities related to the acquisition or use of nuclear weapons shall be prohibited.
Nucleaz-weapon states shall dismantle nuclear weapons, including delivery systems, and
downgrade all weapons-grade fissile materials under strict and effective international control.
~ Total Nuclear Weapons Abolition by 2020 ~
3 Activities to Date
Period Content
[NPT Preparatory Committee in Geneva]
April 2008 Announced Hiroshima-Na asaki Protocol
June 2008 Launched Cities Appeal at the city (elected official) level supporting the
Hiroshima-Na asaki Protocol; text su ortin the rotocol added to the CANT tition
(NPT Preparatory Committee in New York]
May 2009 * Lobbied governments for support of a resolution commending the Protocol to the
NPT Review Conference
Adopted Action Plan at 7~` General Conference of Mayors for Peace in Nagasaki,
August 2009 including promotion ofHiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol for adoption at 2010 NPT
Review Conference
(NPT Review Conference in New York]
Submitted over 1500 mayoral petitions and over one million grassroots petitions
May 2010 supporting the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol and the CANT project to the president of
the NPT Review Conference.
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Protocol complementary to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons for achieving anuclear-weapon-free world by the year 2020
Desiring to establish an over-arching means of addressing nuclear disarmament in all its aspects so as to
facilitate the fulfillment by Stales Parties of their obligations under Article VI of the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and with a view to all states fulfilling the nucleaz disazmament
obligation found by the International Court of Justice in their 1996 advisory opinion on the legality of the
use or threat of nuclear weapons;
Considering that continued exploitation of the discriminatory nature of the Treaty, wherein
nuclear-weapon States Parties are exempted from the prohibition on the acquisition of nuclear weapons, is
incompatible with the pursuit in good faith of nuclear disarmament in all its aspects;
Considering further that full equality under international law must be re-established by the elimination of
all nuclear arsenals as ageed in the 1995 Extension Conference decision on "Principles and Objectives";
Article I
1. The nuclear-weapon States Parties to this Protocol shall cease forthwith:
(a) alt activities related to the acquisition of nuclear weapon which non-nuclear-weapon States
Parties are prohibited from pursuing under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons;
(b) all activities which incorporate nuclear weapons into their military doctrines and practices; and
shall place all nuclear weapons and weapon-usable fissile materials in safe and secure storage at
the earliest possible date.
2. All other States Parties to this Protocol possessing weapons-usable fissile material shall take those steps
required ofthe nuclear-weapon States in paragraph I which apply to their circumstances.
Article II
I. The States Parties to this Protocol shall pursue in good faith negotiations on achieving nuclear
disarmament in all its aspects under the following two main sections
Section One negotiations will standardize and legally codify the measures taken under Article [,
paragraph I, (a) and (b).
Section Two negotiations wilLaddress:
(c) the elimination of all nuclear weapons and related deployment systems, including delivery
vehicles, launch platforms, and command and control systems.
(d) the elimination of all infrastructure associated with'the acquisition ofnuclear-weapon system,
including production and testing facilities, and of al] weapon-usable fissile material stocks.
2. The negotiations called for in paragraph 1 shall have as their objective a Nuclear Weapons Convention
or a comparable Framework Agreement. Negotiations shall- begin forthwith and be pursued without
interruption by all States Parties until this objective is achieved. A Secretariat for the negotiations shall
be established that remains in operation until negotiations are concluded.
3. Every good faith effort shall be made to ensure that all measures related to Section One are agreed and
implemented before or by 2015 and that all measures related to Section Two are agreed and implemented
before or by 2020.
4. All measures contained or foreseen in the Nuclear Weapons Convention or Framework Agreement shall
be subject to strict and effective intemational control and shall provide for international institutions
capable of ensuring that the nuclear-weapon free world which is achieved can be maintained indefinitely.
Article III
Nothing in this Protocol shall be interpreted as diminishing in anyway the nonproliferation obligations of
any State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; including each State's
obligation to cooperate in the establishment and operation of the intemational institutions of Article II,
paragraph 4.
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Cities Are Not Targets (CANT) Petition Drive
Please tell the nuclear powers that Cities Are Not Targets!
Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation
< Mayors for Peace calls cities together to build anuclear-weapon-free world. >
Since our experience of the atomic bombings in August 1945, Hiroshima and Nagasaki have continually called
for the abolition of nuclear weapons and realization of I•asting world peace. Despite our efforts, minty areas
azound the world remain trapped in chains of hatred, violence and retaliation, our planet still bristles with vast
arsenals of nuclear weapons, and the probability that such weapons will be used is increasing.
In response to this crisis, Mayors for Peace, an NGO over which we preside that now has 4,301 member cities in
149 countries and regions, is conducting a global 2020 Vision Campaign to eliminate alt nuclear weapons by
2020.
In 1996, the International Court of Justice declared that, "The threat or use of nucleaz weapons would generally
be contrary to the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, and in particulaz the principles and rules
of humanitazian law." ]n 2006, Mayors for Peace marked the IOth anniversary of this landmark findingby
launching Phase II of our 2020 Vision Campaign. The centerpiece of this phase was the Good Faith Challenge,
a program demanding that alt governments abide by the other ICJ finding that, "There exists an obligation to
pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects
under strict and effective international control." The cities' Good Faith Challenge was a Cities Are Not Targets
(CANT) project to demand assurances from nuclear weapon states that no cities aze targeted for nucleaz attack.
A Mayors for Peace delegation attended the NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting in Geneva, April 2008. We
called for good-faith disamtament efforts and proposed the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol to indicate concretely
what agood-faith effort would look like. The Protocol is a powerful campaign tool supporting the 2020 Vision.
< Cities Are Not Targets (CANT) >
Nuclear weapons are illegal, immoral devices designed to obliterate entire cities. Despite the end of the Cold
Waz, the danger of nucleaz weapons remains virtually unchanged. Thousands of nuclear warheads are still
deployed and ready to fire on warning. At the push of a button, nuclear-tipped missiles can be on their way to a
target city. If such an event were to take place, some city, home to children and hundreds of thousands of
innocent noncombatants, would suffer utter devastation.
The CANT project is designed to lift the voices of cities and citizens saying, "No! You may not target cities.
You may not target children." Through this campaign, we intend to bring to the attention of mayors, citizens
and national leaders the fact that cities are, in fact, still being targeted for annihilation and the International Court
of Justice has found this threat itself to be a war crime. Furthermore, we hope this project will intensify our
demand that the nuclear-weapon states fulfill their promise to "negotiate in good faith" to abolish-all nuclear
weapons.
The goal of this project is not a shifting of nuclear weapons away from cities but their total elimination. And
when we speak here of "cities," we refer not to a municipal entity of a certain size but to any area in which
children and non-combatants aze living.
Please participate in this project by signing the petition form below and sending it to all your friends and
neighbors. Mayors for Peace will use your signature to deliver a message to the nuclear-weapon states. Help
us tell them to START NEGOTIATING NOW! The inhabitants of this planet want to bequeath to our children a
genuinely peaceful world free from nucleaz weapons, and we intend to achieve this by 2020.
(~` Your name, address and other personal information will not be used for any other purpose.)
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Cities Are Not Targets (CANT)
Petition Form
We, the undersigned, make the following demands of the leaders of all Nuclear Weapon States.
~ Do not target with nuclear weapons the cities in which we live!
4 Do not target any cities, towns, villages anywhere in the world inhabited by innocent
children!
4 START NEGOTIATING NO W to liberate Earth from nuclear weapons by 2020!
4 Do not, even in war, attack cities or non-combatants!
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iVlayors for Peace Secretariat
c/o :Peace and Intemationat Solidarity Promotion Division,
Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation
TEL : +81-82-242-7821 FAX : +81-82-242-'7452
E-mail : mayorcon@pcfcityhiroshimajp
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6 Mayors far Peace
Covenant of the Mayors for Peace
In August, 1945, the trst nuclear weapons ever used in human history caused an indescribable
catastrophe for the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even now a number of A-bomb survivors are still
suffering physically, psychologically, and socially from various after-ef2'ects. Nevertheless, nucleaz
weapons have not been abolished; they continue to threaten human existence. Our goal is to maintain
environments that enable citizens to lead safe, cultural lives, and to contribute to the attainment of lasting
world peace. To this end, we pledge to make every effort to create aninter-city solidarity transcending
national boundaries and ideological differences in order to achieve the total abolition of nuclear weapons.
and avert the recurrence of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki tragedies.
We agree to the intent of the "Program to Promote Solidarity of Cities towards the Total Abolition of
Nuclear Weapons" proposed by Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Furthermore, we hope that the "World
Conference of Mayors fot Peace through Inter-city Solidazity," which held its first session in August of
1985, shall become a permanent organization. Accordingly, we do hereby establish an organization to
be known as the "Mayors for Peace".
CIIAPTER I
PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES
Purposes
ARTICLE 1
The Purposes of the "Mayors for Peace" are to contribute to the attainment of lasting world peace by
arousing concern among citizens of the world for the total abolition of nuclear weapons through close
solidarity among all cities which agree to the "Program to Promote Solidarity of Cities towards the Total
Abolition of Nuclear Weapons" as well as by striving to solve vital problems for the human race such as
starvation and poverty, the plight of refugees, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation.
(Cities which agree to the "Program to Promote Solidarity of Cities towazds the Total Abolition of
Nuclear Weapons" are hereinafter cited as solidarity cities.)
Purposes
ARTICLE 2
The Organization and solidarity cities, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in
accordance with the following Principles;
(a) The Organization shall be based on friendship, goodwill, and respect for the actual conditions of
Solidarity Cities.
(b) The Organization shall devote itself to the total abolition of nuclear weapons and the attainment of
lasting world peace, and to the solution of such problems as starvation, poverty, the plight of
refugees, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation in cooperation with the United
Nations, a major peace-keeping organization in the world.
(c) Solidarity Cities shall work for the development of friendly relationships and bonds of solidarity
among cities on the basis of mutual understanding and shall act in good faith for the attainment of
the Purposes in accordance with the present Covenant.
(d) Solidarity Cities shall seek to increase global awareness of the "Spirit of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
by introducing and expanding the idea of Inter-City Solidarity.
CHAPTER II
ACTIVITIES
Details of the Activities
ARTICLE 3
The Organization, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall be engaged in the following
activities;
(a) To introduce and expand the idea ofinter-city solidarity to worldwide cities.
(b) To make an appeal For the total abolition of nuclear weapons and general and complete
disarmament to related organizations such as the United Nations.
(c) To coordinate the following activities promoted by Solidarity Cities.
(i)Solidarity Cities shall hold gatherings and events devoted to the cause of disarmament and peace,
and/or to the solution of such problems as starvation, poverty, the plight of refugees, human rights
abuses, and environmental degradation and shall send copies of any statement, resolution, or
proclamation, associated with these events, to other Solidarity Cities.
(ii) Solidarity cities shall transmit messages advocating the total abolition of nuclear weapons and
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' general and complete disarmament to the Secretary-General and the President of the General
Assembly of the United Nations during the United Nations Disarmament Week. In addition,
copies of the messages shall be exchanged with other Solidarity Cities.
(iii)Solidarity Cities that sponsor workshops or meetings on peace, disarmament, and security issues,
and/or the solution of such problems as starvation, poverty, the plight of refugees, human rights
abuses, and environmental degradation shall send relevant pamphlets, books, and materials
reporting these results to other SolidaziTy Cities.
(iv)SolidariTy Cities that publish or obtain materials, brochures, or books related to peace,
disarmament, and security issues, and/or to the solution of such problems as starvation, poverty,
the plight of refugees, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation shall bring them to
the attention of other Solidazity Cities.
(v) Bearing in mind the cun•ent international situation and the urgency and importance of nuclear
disarmament, Solidarity Cities shall hold photographic exhibitions which describe and depict to
citizens azound the world the actual nature of the devastations wreaked by the atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(vi)The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shall cooperate by providing necessary exhibition
photographs and inVoducing documentary films, slides, and lwoks, that depict the disaster caused
by the atomic bombings.
(d) To sponsor and organize events as may be necessary to achieve the Purposes stated in the present
Covenant.
CHAPTER III
EXECUTIVE OFFICIALS
Executive Officials
ARTICLE 4
1. Executive Officials of the Organization shall consist of: one President; an appropriate number of
Vice-Presidents and Executive Members.
2. The President and the Vice-President shall be elected by Solidarity Cities.
3. The President shall supervise and represent the Organization, and shall chair the Conference.
4. The Vice-President shall assist the President. In case of the inability of the President to carry out the
duties of the office, the Vice-President shall fulfill the duties of the President.
5. The Executive Members shall be appointed from Solidarity Cities by the President with regional
conditions taken into consideration.
6. The Executive Members shall assist the President and the Vice-President and shall act for the smooth
management of the Organization.
Term of Office
ARTICLE 5
I. The term of office of the Executive Officials shall be until such time that new Executive Officials are
elected at a succeeding General Conference. Each office shall be open to reelection.
2. Whatever the stipulations of previous clauses, if a member-city mayor holding an elected office resigns
or retires his or her mayoralty, the succeeding mayor shall assume said office. In such case, the
succeeding officer's term shall last as long as the original term of the retiring or resigning officer.
CHAPTER IV
CONFERENCE
General C~nferenee and Executive Conference
ARTICLE 6
The Organization shall hold a General Conference and an Executive Conference.
General Conference
ARTICLE 7
I. The General Conference shall meet every four years in principle.
2. The General Conference shall be held to achieve the Purposes stated in Article 1 and to decide and
approve relevant questions.
Executive Conference
ARTICLE 8
I. The Executive Conference shall consist of the Executive Officials and shall meet when the occasion
arises.
2. The Executive Conference shall be authorized to make emergency decisions for the Organization in
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place of the General Conference with the exception of electing the President and the Vice-President.
Cnnvacation
ARTICLE 9
The Genera( Conference or the Executive Conference shall be convoked by the President.
Yr~ting
ARTICLE 10
1. Each Solidarity City participating in the General Conference or the Executive Conference shall have
one vote. [n case of absence, each Solidarity City may delegate its vote by proxy to another
participating city.
2. Decisions of [he Conference on all questions shall be made by a simple majority vote of participating
cities. In case of tie votes, the President shall cast a deciding vote.
3. When circumstances render i[ impossible to hold a Conference, decisions shall be made by votes
conveyed in letters to the Secretaziat from Solidarity Cities.
CHAPTER V
THESECRETAR[AT
Establishment of the Secretariat
ARTICLE 11
The Secretariat shall be established in Hiroshima to operate the Organization.
Secretariat Staff
ARTICLE 12
l .The Secretariat shall be comprised of aSecretary-General and support-staff.
2.The Secretary-General and support-staff shall be appointed by the President.
CHAPTER VI
SHARE OF EXPENSES
Expenses
ARTICLE 13
Expenses required to operate the Secretariat (ordinary expenditure) and expenses required to hold the
Conference (extraordinary expenditure) shall be decided by the General Conference on the
recommendation of the Executive Conference.
CHAPTER VII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Amendments
ARTICLE 14
Amendments to the present Covenant shall come into force upon adoption by atwo-thirds majority of the
participating cities at the General Conference.
Delegation
ARTICLE 15
Decisions required to operate the Secretariat, other than those stipulated in the present Covenant, shall be
made by the President.
This covenant was executed on November 1, 1986.
Revised on October 16, 1991, effective the same day.
Revised on August 5, 2001, effective the same day.
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Mayors for Peace Membership by Country
No Area Cvuniriea .4~R ions C.i[ies
1 Aaie AI hanistan 2
2 29 countries & Ban ladesh 2I
3 regions Bhuan I
4 1,22Y Cities Cambodia I
5 Chma 7
6 ms 3
7 India 16
R Indanesta 3
9 Iran 2I
1 0 Ia - 139
I 1 Israel 48
1 2 Ja en B16
13 Jordan Z
14 Korca }
IS Lebanon I
Ih Mala sia %
17 Mon olio 4
IR Ne nl h
I9 Northam Cy ms 4
20 Pakistan 13
21 Palestine 2R
22 Phdi Ines 19
23 Sri lanky 37
24 S rian Amb Re ublic 2
25 Taiwan }
26 Thailand 3
27 Turkc II
28 Viet Nam 4
29 Yerren 2
30 Africa Benin 3
31 39 countries & Botswana 3
32 regions Burkina Faso 2
33 229 cities Bumndi I
34 Cameroon 63
35 Ca e Verde
36 Ccn[al African Re ublic I
37 Chad I
38 Re ublic of(:on o I
39 Cote D'ivvire 2
40 wnomie ary~wicorwe cnoco i
41 t 2
42 Eritrea 2
43 Ethic ta b
44 Csmbu 3
45 Ghana 6
46 Guinea 2
47 Ken a 3
48 Lesotho i
49 Liberia 7
50 Malawi
51 Mali 5
52 Mauritania 3
53 Mauritius 1
54 Morocco 5
55 Nanabia i
56 Ni er I
57 N' aria 2
56 Rwanda I
59 Sao Tome and Pone e 2
60 Sene aI 29
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62 Sierra tevne 1
63 Sonehland 1
64 South Africa 8
65 Tamm~ia 2
66 To 0 2
67 U ands 53
68 Z ombie 3
69 Oceavie Aus[alia 72
70 9 countries & F '~i 2
71 r egion F rench Pol nesia 1
72 1 14 cities Marshall Islands I
73 Micronesia 2
74 N ew Zealand 32
75 N ortham Mariana Islands 2
76 P a ua New Gurnee I
77 ~ S olomon Islands I
Nnvcmher 171110
Nv Area Countries & Re riona Cities
7 8 Nitrope Albans ~
7 9 45 countries & Andorra 2
H O raglans Amcnia 1
H I 2,104 Cffies Austria 50
8 2 Belams 1
% 3 Bel ium J55
8 4 Oomie and Heru vine y
8 5 Bul aria 4
R 6 Croatia 31
R 7 Cach 2g
8 8 Denrmrk IS
R 9 Estonia 4
90 Finland }
91 Fance 133
92 Ceor is I
y3 Gemnn 368
94 (aeece 2g
95 Hung q
96 Iceland 1
97 Ireland I1
98 Ital 371
99 Kaakhstan 5
100 K r Stan I
IOI Latvia 1
l02 Lithuania 2
IU3 Luxembour 56
104 Macedonia I
105 Malta I
1W Moldova 1
I07 Netherlands 53
108 Norwa R6
109 Poland 7
110 Portu ai 33
111 Ronenia 4
Ill Russia 2I
117 Serbia 3
114 Siovaloa 1
IIS Slovenia 2
116 S sin 295
ill Sweden 16
118 Swdmrland 20
119 Ta'rlasmd 2
120 UK. 64
121 Uluaine 4
122 Uzbelismn 3
123 North America Canada 90
124 3 countries & Greenland 1
t3 re ions 254 cities US.A. 163
126 I.adv America and A entire 31
127 Caribheav Bolivia 2
128 24 countries & Baal ql
I29 regivvs Ch~e 5
130 371 cities Columbia 6
731 Costa lilts 46
132 Cuba- 2
I33 Dorrvnica 1
134 Domnican Re ubiic 5
135 ~ Salvador 5
136 Guatermla 4
137 E cuador 5
l38 G u aria 1
179 H adi 3
140 H onduras 2
t41 l armica 1
142 Mexico 9
143 N icaa ua I55
144 P aa ua 1
145 P em 7
146 P uerto Rico l l
147 T rinidad Toba o 2
148 U m ua 1
149 V enenrela 25
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