Diocese of British Columbia - Development and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons
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- Date
- 1993 November
- Type
- Resolution 16-11-93
- Mover
- Archdeacon R. MacRae
- Seconder
- Bishop K. Genge
- Text of motion
- That NEC endorse Resolution #28 of the Primates/Anglican Consultative Council joint meeting (January 1993), as follows:
- That this Joint Meeting of the Primates of the Anglican Communion and the Anglican Consultative Council calls upon the Churches of the Anglican Communion to support any initiatives to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice as to whether the development and deployment of nuclear weapons and the threat to use them are legal under existing international law, and further,
- that the text of this resolution be conveyed to the Secretary General of the United Nations and that the Provinces be requested to convey their responses to the Anglican Communion Office and to the Anglican Observer at the United Nations. CARRIED #16-11-93
- Subjects
- Nuclear disarmament - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Nuclear warfare - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Nuclear weapons - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Consultative Council. Meeting (9th : 1993 : Cape Town, South Africa) - Resolutions