A Global Pact Against Depleted Uranium

Posted: 23rd March 2023

From: Max Obuszewski [mailto:[email protected]]

Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 7:36 PM

Subject: A Global Pact Against Depleted Uranium

 During September of 2004 I launched an international campaign to conclude a global pact against depleted uranium (DU) munitions by having every state in the world officially and publicly take the position that the Geneva Protocol of 1925 already includes within itself a flat-out prohibition on the use of DU in wartime, which they have no yet done.

 In addition to prohibiting “the use of bacteriological methods of warfare,” the 1925 Geneva Protocol also prohibits “the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials, or devices.” Clearly DU is “analogous” to poison gas.[i] But we need every government in the world to legally and openly take that position. Then the entire world can pressure the United States to remove DU munitions from its arsenal.

 Politically, the easiest way to accomplish that objective is not the conclusion of a new international treaty prohibiting the use of DU, but rather simply having every state in the world submit an interpretative Letter to that effect to the Government of France, which is the official depositary for the 1925 Geneva Protocol. This latter approach would also avoid the need to have the respective national legislatures of every state in the world to approve a new anti-DU treaty and thus complicate and prolong the process. All that needs to be done is for anti-DU citizens, activists and NGOs in each country of the world to pressure and convince their respective Foreign Ministers to sign, date, and then file this model Letter with the French Foreign Minister as indicated below. That task is eminently feasible.

 As the Land Mines Treaty has already demonstrated, it is possible for a coalition of determined activists and NGOs, acting in concert with at least one sympathetic state, such as Canada, to actually bring into being an international treaty to address humanitarian concerns. This template Letter is for the use of concerned citizens, activists and NGOs worldwide, to pursue through universal governmental participation the complete and final elimination of DU munitions from the face of the earth:

 Francis A. Boyle

Law Building

504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.

Champaign, IL 61820 USA

217-333-7954 (voice)

217-244-1478 (fax)

[email protected]

(personal comments only)

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His Excellency Michel Barnier

Foreign Minister

French Republic

37, Quai d’Orsay

75351 Paris

FRANCE

FAX: 33-1-43-17-4275

Dear Excellency:

The Republic of X presents its compliments to the French Republic. I have the honor to draw to your attention the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare of 17 June 1925, for which the Government of the French Republic serves as the depositary. The Geneva Protocol of 1925 prohibits the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices, as well as the use of bacteriological methods of warfare. The government of X believes that the Geneva Protocol of 1925 already prohibits the use in war of depleted uranium, uranium ammunition, uranium armor-plate and all other uranium weapons. We respectfully request your Excellency to circulate this communication to the other High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Protocol of 1925.

Please accept, Excellency, the assurance of our highest consideration.

Foreign Minister

Republic of X

Day, Month, Year

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Francis A. Boyle

Law Building

504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.

Champaign, IL 61820 USA

217-333-7954 (phone)

217-244-1478 (fax)

(personal comments only)

Francis A. Boyle

Law Building

504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.

Champaign IL 61820 USA

Phone: 217-333-7954

Fax: 217-244-1478

(personal comments only)

Attached please find # 217 – with Open Letter to the ICC

 

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Kind regards,

Dr. Vladimir Kozin

 

Member, Russian Academy of Military Sciences

Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences,

Vice President, Russian National Institute for Global Security Research

Winner of Colonel-General Varfolomei Korobushin Reward (Russian Strategic Missiles Forces) and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Reward

Leading Expert, Center for Military-Political Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Ph.D, Senior Researcher (Academic Rank

 

 

 

14.03.2023, 16:02, “Vladimir Kozin” <[email protected]>:

Attached please find # 216 – dealt with Patriarch Kirill’s appeal.

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Kind regards,

Dr. Vladimir Kozin

 

Member, Russian Academy of Military Sciences

Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences,

Vice President, Russian National Institute for Global Security Research

Winner of Colonel-General Varfolomei Korobushin Reward (Russian Strategic Missiles Forces) and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Reward

Leading Expert, Center for Military-Political Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Ph.D, Senior Researcher (Academic Rank

 

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