International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
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- Date
- 2007 June 19-25
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Act 56
- Mover
- Mrs. Phyllis Creighton
- Seconder
- Bishop Susan Moxley
- Text of motion
- That this General Synod:
- 1. Commit the Anglican Church of Canada, through its Ecojustice Committee (or its successor), to support the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in its efforts to raise political will for the achievement of a Nuclear Weapons Convention. This convention would forbid the development, manufacture, testing, deployment, stock-piling, transfer, threat or use of nuclear weapons, lead to their reduction and elimination, and provide for verification of the same.
- 2. Request the chair of the Ecojustice Committee (or its successor) to direct a letter to ICAN [International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons] expressing our support for the demands of ICAN:
- - Negotiation of Nuclear Abolition
- - No new Nuclear Weapons
- - Reduction of the likelihood of nuclear weapons use by
- -- a No First Use policy
- -- a No Launch-on Warning policy
- -- development of more Nuclear-Weapons Free Zones (including one in Canada)
- - Canada must call on NATO to revise its nuclear policy. Canada must promote No-Launch-on Warning and make sure adequate resources are directed toward nuclear disarmament.
- CARRIED Act 56
- Subjects
- Nuclear disarmament - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Nuclear weapons - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Nuclear warfare - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- War - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)