Dear Friend,
Thank you most warmly for your kind invitation to participate in the World Conference against A & H Bombs, which will be held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki this August.

This conference takes place at a time of great importance for the worldwide movement against nuclear weapons, and we want to give you all possible moral support.

Unfortunately, I shall not be able to attend myself, because I am forbidden by my doctor from making long journeys. However, we strongly support your signature campaign, and look forward to new co-operation in the cause of the nuclear weapons.

Recently we published a small book of poems by the English poet James Kirkup. It is entitled No More Hiroshimas, and we should like to present it to you in the hope that it will encourage further supporters.

With every good wish

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Sue Davis
Member of CND Council
UK

Dear GENSUIKYO,
Herewith my signature to your petition. And it gives me the opportunity to thank you very warmly for continuing to send me your regular bulletins, after I came to your annual conference in 1999. That was an extremely precious experience for me, and I greatly value the continuing news of the great work you do.

Thanks!
In peace,

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Gopal Pd. Pokharel Biwash
Secretary General
AAPSO Nepal

Dear Friends,
As for your kind information, recently AAPSO Nepal had organized a 58th foundation day of the United Nations on 31 October 2003 at Kathmandu. The Theme of the program was "United Nations: Present Situation and Its Challenges". Scholars in the political and diplomatic fields have expressed the view that the United Nations should be made more strong and effective for wiping out terrorism and also for Conflict management. Speaker pointed out the need for developing the United Nations as a Common forum of the World through the Conception of multi-lateral consensus to enable the world body to take effective and mature decisions. The main speaker of the Program were Mrs. Chitralekha Yadav(Dy. Speaker Ambassador to Nepal) Mr. K.P. Sharma Oli (Chairman of AAPSO Nepal), Mr. Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya(Co-Chairman of AAPSO Nepal and former foreign Minister), Mr. Yadav Kanta Silwal (former Secretary General., SAARC) etc.

Thanking you
Sincerely yours

[Attached 66 signatures with this massage]

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Judy Blyth
Executive Officer
Medical Association for Prevention of War(W.A.Branch)
Australia

On behalf of the Western Australian Branch of MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOR PREVENTION OF WAR, I am very pleased to be sending you 100 signatures on your petition to ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS NOW. Most of those who have signed are from people in Victoria, another State in Australia.

Of course if members of MAPW(WA Branch) collect more signatures, I shall be eager to post those over to you as well. I presume you will continue to accept these petitions until the NPT Review Conference next year, in the 60th anniversary year of the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

We congratulate you on the magnificent work you are doing towards a world free of nuclear weapons. Over here, we are lobbying our Australian Government to engage positively in the NPT PrepCom meeting soon in UN Headquarters in New York. We hope that nuclear non-proliferation concerns do not eclipse the crucial issue of nuclear disarmament. The world needs to see more progress on the UNEQUIVOCAL commitment to abolish nuclear arsenals agreed at the NPT Review Conference 2000. The 13 practical steps in that agreement need to be implemented! As well as with the big questions about nuclear disarmament discussed by all 188 Members of the United Nations. Like you, we work towards a Nuclear Weapons Convention.

We wish you peace!

[Attached 66 signatures with this massage]

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Judy Blyth
Exective officer
Med. Assoc. for prevention of war (W.A.Branch)
Australia

Dear Friends,
Here are 75 more signatures on your nuclear disarmament petition ---to add to the 100 I posted of you earlier this year. We'll keep on collecting signatures---as each fine oneself signs, it is a chance of talk about the significance of the year 2005 in our shared quest to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Peace on earth
[In sum, 175 signatures send to us]

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Jack Sennett
Australia

Dear Council Members,
During 1946 and 1947, whilst serving with the Australian Air Force, I lived in Hiroshima, sometimes at Yoshijima airfield near the prison, and sometimes amongst the ruins near Kamiyacho. I visited the red cross hospital many times. Although I am now 82 years old the terrible sights and experiences remain vividly in my memory.

Since those times I have actively campaigned for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. When I was younger I spoke often at schools, describing to Australian students the consequences of nuclear war, and what one atom bomb did to Hiroshima and the people who lived there.
Hiroshima will haunt me until the day I die.
I commend you for your efforts to ensure that it will never happen again.

Yours in peace,

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Roger and Teresa MacKay
Ipswich and District Trade Union Council
Australia

Dear Council Members
We have noted the success of the 2004 Conference against A & H Bombs and congratulate everyone who was responsible for its organization and those who took part in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The Ipswich & District Trade Council continues to support the aims of the Japan Council against A & H Bombs, to accomplish the elimination of nuclear weapons.

We are also opposed to the current occupation of Iraq by so-called "coalition forces" and have made several statements of this to the UK government and the local representative (Member of Parliament). We have called for the immediate withdrawal of all the occupying forces in Iraq, where the continued upheaval experienced by the people of Iraq is actually preventing the reconstruction so desperately needed.

By the time your Conference takes place in 2005, there will have been national elections in both the United States of America and the United Kingdom. We have no doubt that opposition to the conflict in Iraq will play a significant part in the decisions made by the electorates of both countries and we hope to play a role in making sure that this continues and is linked to the wider picture of eliminating all forms of nuclear weapons.

The 60th anniversary of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be an important landmark in the campaign to abolish nuclear weapons and in all our campaign work over the coming year we will be making sure that material is available to this effect.

Yours in solidarity,

[Attached 8 signs]

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Monirul Islam
Man for Mankind
Bangladesh

Our neighboring countries India and Pakistan has been launching missiles and nuclear weapons. But we need food, shelter, education, medical treatment and consumer items than that of arms. So, we request Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and new Indian Prime Minister Manmohan sing to make safer and nuclear-free Indo-Bengal-Pakistan subcontinent to bloom the new flower of peace, initiated in the soil of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan for the cause of humanity and peace in Asia.

[Attached 8 signatures with this massage]

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P.H.Dayawansa
Individual
Sri Lanka

I am enclosing signature campaign format, duly perfected by me and by few of the intellectual persons and trust them will be in order.
I wish you every success in your intended campaign launched against A & H Bombs.

Thanking you,
Yours very truly

[Attached 4 signatures with this massage]

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Pamela S. Meidell
Director, The Atomic Mirror
Chair, Disarmament Task Force, Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA

I fully support the Year of Remembrance and Action for a Nuclear Free World (August 2004-August 2005), which includes the Mayors Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the parallel citizen's initiative, Abolition Now! We must honor the Hibakusha and ensure that no one experiences what they did in 1945! Let us douse the nuclear flame in Hiroshima!

In peace and friendship,

Pamela S. Meidell
Director
The Atomic Mirror
P.O. Box 220
Port Hueneme, CA 93044-0220 USA
tel: +1 805 985 5073
fax: +1 805 985 3241 (please call first)
pamela@atomicmirror.org
www.earthways.org/atomicmirror

The Atomic Mirror: 1994-2004
Ten Years of Reflecting and Transforming Our Nuclear World Through the Arts
(A Project of the EarthWays Foundation)
Official United Nations Civil Society Organization
Abolition 2000 Founding Organization

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WALTER E. BAINS

NUCLEAR WEAPONS are without a doubt the greatest contributor to GLOBAL INSTABILITY AND FEARS AND THE GREATEST THREAT TO EVERYONE'S PEACE AND SURVIVAL!!! NPT SHOULD BE PROMOTED STARTING WITH DOWNSIZING AND ELIMINATION OF THESE WEAPONS BY THE U.S.A. AND RUSSIA (neither of the two super-powers need nuclear weapons for their survival). This lead would be followed by the rest of the world.

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Sukla Sen
CNDP-India

I do wholeheartedly endorse the campaign as an effective means of pressurizing the rulers of the nuclear weapons states, declared and undeclared, by mobilizing public opinion for complete and irreversible abolition of the scourge of nuclear weapons.

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Luis Gutirrez Esparza, President, LACIS
Latin American Circle for International Studies (LACIS)
Av. Insurgentes Sur 216, despacho 500-A, Mexico, DF, CPO 06700 (MEXICO)

On behalf of the Latin American Circle for International Studies (LACIS), I am signing this Petition with the greatest of hopes. We must be positive and work very hard, day-by-day, so the future generations can live without the nightmare of nuclear holocaust.

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Fauzia Aziz Minallah
#24 B, St 38, F 8/1, Islamabad. Pakistan

Dear Mr. Mayor of Hiroshima,
It was a great pleasure meeting you in Islamabad where I gave a presentation of ' Promoting Peace through Art among Children in Pakistan', at a function organized by Citizen's Peace Committee and Pakistan India forum for Peace and Democracy.
I am a Peace activist and founder of Funkor Child Art Center Islamabad. We are committed to 'Peace' and believe that peace can never be achieved in this world until or unless each and everyone of us is aware of the evil that is nuclear weapons.
For this purpose we at Funkor have regularly since August 6 2002 have been commemorating Hiroshima and Nagasaki day with children, along with CPC and PIFPD. Every child must know the pain and sufferings of Hibaksha, and must know the barbaric devastation of the 'life' in these 2 cities.
We would love to contribute in any way possible for the 'Abolish the Nuclear Weapons' campaign,

Regards and best wishes,
Fauzia Aziz Minallah

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Henri Onodera
Finnish Peace Committee
H?meentie 48, 00500 Helsinki, Finland.
tel. +358-9-7744 3116
fax +358-9-773 2328
e-mail: onodera@kaapeli.fi
www.rauhanpuolustajat.fi

Hello!

We could include a paper version (postcard size) Abolition Now -appeal to a magazine with circulation of 50 000 in Finland.

Henri Onodera
Suomen Rauhanpuolustajat - Fredsk?mparna i Finland - Suoma R fibealusteaddjit - Finnish Peace Committee - Comit por la Paz de Finlandia - Comit pour la paix en Finlande

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Stuart Stephenson
Kent, UK

Having learned the indiscriminate slaughter and continuing suffering atomic weapons inflicted on the innocent inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, I cannot condone the use of nuclear weapons again. Yet the US, by trying to use them for deterrence, set in motion a chain-reaction of need for them, which is still running. History has shown that the deterrence/arms racing/proliferation chain reaction cannot be stopped by the NPT. Yet if we persist on the deterrence path someone, somewhere will use them again, eventually. Only their complete abolition world-wide can remove the need for them, thus I am fervently in favour of their total elimination.

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Shana Mehta
4028 Cedarbark Dr, Matthews, NC 28105

Nuclear weapons threaten the very existence of humanity. Their existence hinders the promotion of peace in the world.

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Juhani Mastokangas
Angervotie 1 C 17, 13210 Heenlinna, Finland

Nuclear weapons are nasty things in so many ways. They should not be allowed to exist.

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Shiva Shrestha
President
Save the World
Kathmandu
Nepal

All the people have the right to live in peace so all the nuclear weapons should abolished to survive our future generation and good earth for the better world.

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Anonymous

It is a fundamental human right to live on this planet safe from deadly and irreversibly destructive power of nuclear weapons. No nation should hold such power over the fate of humanity, the environment and all its living things. The scientists who worked to develop this technology are just as much to blame as the government leaders who have funded and supported nuclear research and development. The scientists who are working today in the United States on "Bunker Busters"--have heavy consciousness because you are creating the ugliest and darkest evil known to man. You are not simply doing your job, you are spending your life's work and time on Earth building weapons that inhibit peace and could bring the destruction of everything good man has made in our millions of years of existence. We must hold the scientific community as well as the governments of world accountable for the irresponsible and irrational development of weapons that cause immeasurable amounts of suffering and despair. And we must also hold the citizens of the world--who have been born into free societies with the right to openly oppose the violent and hateful pursuits of their governments--responsible for raising their voice and demanding nuclear disarmament and abolition.

The nuclear debate isn't just about weapons policy, it is about the fate of humanity. There is no turning back now--what has been introduced to the world cannot be undone, but the future is not predetermined. We have the power to rid the world of this threat to humanity and the continuance of life on this planet.

May the American conscious wake up and bang down the doors of the Congress funding our nuclear weapons program, and think about what such stockpiles and continuing research mean for the security of the world, and the potential we have for peace.

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Nick Henry
Wellington / Te Whanganui a Tara, Aotearoa / New Zealand

Aotearoa/New Zealand is nuclear free. The nuclear-free movement started from people declaring their homes, neighborhoods and communities nuclear free. It spread to city councils and then to the government. That was 20 years ago, and the peace movement here continues to support a world free from nuclear weapons.

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Geoffrey Rice
15 Lyman Road, Northampton, MA 01060 USA

What little wisdom we've accumulated as a species leads us to conclude that there can be no peace through violence, and that only peaceful action results in peace. Peace is not a matter of balancing horrors. There is no peace to be gained through exploitation, subjugation or intimidation. When we seek to achieve security by cowing fellow humans into submission, all we accomplish is the erosion of human dignity and the further deterioration of our species' moral and spiritual evolution. As long as the most powerful nations in the world have and continue to manufacture nuclear weapons, they will have no moral right to condemn such behavior in others. I call upon the leaders of the world's nations, beginning with NATO, to work toward the dismantling of all nuclear weapons programs.

Geoffrey Rice
Northampton, MA USA

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Mark Royea
9448-65ave. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

To The Japan Council against A & H Bombs:

I am a supporter of the Communist organizations in Canada and I wish you to know that we are all in support of your fight against nuclear weaponry.

When we look back on the horrific events of WWII,we see a sorrowful and unjust attack on the masses of victims living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is plain to see that many who were living there had no cares for what the government had dragged their nation into, and many could be imagined criticizing the government negatively for its actions, waving the nation's flags in support of the government with hidden thoughts of disagreement and displeasure.

It is plain to see the positive aspects which will be created through the deconstruction of nuclear weaponry. Jobs will be created in the deconstruction process, and the resources used in the formation of nuclear bombs could be recycled into more useful tools and machinery. Also, the money used to fund nuclear weaponry could be saved for international social programs such as the decrease of poverty, curing disease, education, or world peace.

we also must rally together internationally and stop the governments of our world from ignoring us. We might possibly be the one's fooled by our government into dropping another bomb, or we might possibly be the one's who receive such a nuclear attack due to the blindness, carelessness, or greed of others.

Whatever the final outcome of this international dispute is in the future, I hope these signatures I have sent will help in the strength of numbers. If I had enough time in my life, I could probably get pages and pages more.

here are many people in Canada who would support the cause if you present them with the paper to sign. Unfortunately, the world's international rallies, protests, and issues seem to be drowned-out by entertainment, leisure activities, or marketing and business in today's age. Yet many gere in Canada are political organization, and a number of other organizations and supporters who congregated on the anniversary of Hiroshima. I hope things go well. No one with compassion or wisdom would wish to see anymore innocent victims of warfare like Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

May the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki be forever remembered and blessed in our hearts, and the heavens.

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Dr. Peter Nicholls,
Chair, Abolition 2000 UK.
Tel. +44 1206-872121 (office) -873333 (ex. 3015) lab
Fax. +44 1206-872592
/Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Essex,
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester,
Essex CO4 3SQ, U. K.

Colleagues-
Please add my signature to the Abolition Now! Petition on my own behalf and
that of Abolition 2000 UK. Please keep us informed.
Best wishes.

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Baibonn "Kong" Dilangalen Sangid
Chairperson
Young Moro Professionals Network, Inc.
www.bangsamoro.com

Greetings of Peace and Solidarity!

Please include me and our organization the YMPN in the list of indorsees for the abolition of Nuclear Weapons Now.

We belong to the same human race. We are all created by one CREATOR Almighty, we shared the same earth, air and sky!. Aren't we supposed to live as brothers and sisters in humanity? Why do we annihilate each other?

Our generation deserves a better place to live in, Free from the threat of nuclear war, Free from nuclear emission, Free from destructive chemicals that destroy our peoples' habitat and environment, Free from foreign interventions, above all free from destructive WAR!

The youth of the world must forge together to say no more WAR, ABOLISH NUCLEAR Weapons Now!

Godspeed and wishing you success in all your endeavors.

Sincerely,