Please Sign: Urgent Appeal to G7 Hiroshima Summit - Don't Contaminate Ukrainian Soil with Depleted Uranium Weapons!
Posted: 28th April 2023
Japanese activists have initiated the following appeal on Change.org to be delivered to the G7 leaders at their summit in Hiroshima next month.
UNTIL MAY 7, your endorsement of this appeal can be made at this bilingual site:
Please read the full appeal below or at the above link, consider signing it and forward it to others who may also do so.
Thanks,
Jack Cohen-Joppa
Steering Committee, International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons
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An Urgent Appeal to the G7 Hiroshima Summit (May 19-21, 2023)
Don’t Contaminate Ukrainian Soil with Depleted Uranium Weapons!
By the Citizens’ Network Opposing the Use of DU Weapons in Ukraine (*)
Deeply concerned about the grave situation created by the war in Ukraine, we, the undersigned, feel an unprecedent sense of crisis. With nuclear plants in the line of fire and frequent threats to use nuclear weapons, we feel catastrophe looming ever closer. , in this context, we hear that depleted uranium (DU) ammunitions are being delivered to Ukraine by the UK.
DU munitions are made of nuclear waste. If used in Ukraine, many Ukrainians will be harmed and the natural environment will likely be irreparably contaminated. Thus, while hoping above all for a prompt end to the war, we demand that the countries involved in the G7 Hiroshima Summit take the following actions:
1) Japan, the host of the G7 Hiroshima Summit, should issue emphatic appeals at the G7 Summit regarding the inhumanity of both DU and nuclear weapons, arousing international public opposition to the use of these weapons in Ukraine.
2) The UK should halt delivery of DU munitions to Ukraine and withdraw immediately those already delivered.
3) If the Russian military has already used DU munitions in Ukraine, the danger of which Russia itself has admitted, they should disclose the locations where they have used them. It should do its utmost to repair the damage, cooperating with efforts to help the natural environment recovery.
4) Ukraine should refuse to use the DU ammunitions supplied by the UK DU munitions will, in all likelihood, harm the health of Ukrainian soldiers and people, and the contamination will make postwar recovery even more difficult.
Please endorse this appeal, Don’t Contaminate Ukrainian Soil with Depleted Uranium Weapons, at Change.org (https://chng.it/9w4Dg5drhm by May 7, 2023, though your signatures will be appreciated even after this date. By signing you will strengthen our efforts to highlight this issue prior to and during the G7 Hiroshima Summit to be held May 19-21 in Hiroshima.
We will try our best to draw the attention of the G7 leaders and the hundreds of journalists who will gather from around Japan and the world to this urgent and global issue.
Contact: [email protected]
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