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Buddhist Leader Pushes for Nuclear Abolition Treaty

IDN Special
IDN-InDepth NewsInterview of Daisaku Ikeda
BERLIN/TOKYO (IDN) – An eminent Buddhist thinker, Daisaku Ikeda, has called for an early start of negotiations for a global treaty to abolish nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction, to coincide — ideally — with the 70th anniversary of the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
An international [...]

Former President Clinton asks nations to keep funding AIDS programs

CNN) –July 20, 2010
With the promise of coming AIDS vaccines, former President Bill Clinton urged the world’s nations Monday not to give up on funding to prevent a calamity.
Overall support for global AIDS efforts from donor nations flattened in the midst of last year’s global economic crisis, according to a recent analysis of 2009 funding [...]

Walter Veltroni, Co-President of the Summit

Dear friends,
A few months ago, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the tenth edition of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates was held in Berlin.
That occasion, attended by President Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, De Klerk, Yunus, Mairead Corrigan Maguire and many other men and women who have [...]

Mikhail Gorbachev on Afghanistan

by NEW YORK TIMES
Afghanistan is in turmoil, with tensions rising and people dying every day. Many of them — including women, children and the elderly — have nothing in common with terrorists or militants.
The government is losing control of its territory: of the 34 provinces, the Taliban controls a dozen. The production and export of [...]

Does security require nuclear weapons?

STOCKHOLM — The financial crisis and global warming have had the world’s attention in recent years. Thanks to President Barack Obama’s initiative, perhaps the season for nuclear disarmament has finally arrived.

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On Thursday, President Obama will meet Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in Prague to sign a nuclear arms control agreement between the United [...]

Fini: Message from the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies

On the occasion of the Conference “La sicurezza ha bisogno delle armi nucleari?” (Are nuclear weapons needed for security?), promoted by the “Network of Italian parliamentarians for non proliferation and nuclear disarmament” in collaboration with the Permanent Secretariat of Nobel Peace Laureates Summit, taking place at the Camera dei Deputati (Lower House of Parliament) on [...]

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The Permanent Secretariat of Nobel Peace Laureates Summits derives from a new and more broadly based collaboration between the International Gorbachev Foundation and the City of Rome for realizing the World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates. The Permanent Secretariat, based in Rome, is a non-profit association without political aims. As well as organizing the tasks of the Summit, the Secretariat monitors the activities of Nobel Peace Laureates, while promoting the adoption of the "Charter for a world without violence" and supporting the work of the Nobel.