Dear friends,
The Belgian Coalition for Abolition of Depleted
Uranium Weapons invites you to give your help, your suggestions and, if
possible, to participate to a big international debate in Brussels, on the
1st of March. Please fin below:
1. Announcement of the meeting:
2.
Calendar of the three days activities in Brussels
3. Call for your help
and suggestions
4. Contacts.
5. Platform of the
Coalition
University of Brussels, 1st of
March 2001
URANIUM : The
victims speak
Nato and the Western armies tried long to hide the
truth about Depleted Uranium and to isolate the victims. It is now time to
bring all these victims together, and demand justice.
In the very capital
of the Nato, Brussels, an exceptional debate will give the word to
:
BELGIUM :
Guido FLEURACKERS, contaminated
soldier
Marc DE CEULAER, contaminated soldier and leader of military
trade union
Marleen TEUGELS, investigation journalist (Knack)
(invited)
Frédéric LOORE, investigation journalist (Journal du Samedi),
author of La Guerre invisible Pierre PIERART, professor (Association
of Doctors against Nuclear War)
FRANCE :
Hervé DESPLAT,
contaminated soldier, founder of Association Avigolfe
Christine
ABDELKRIM-DELANNE : investigation journalist, author of La Sale Guerre
propre
IRAK : (Names will follow)
BOSNIA :
Dr Bojidar
STAVROVIC (Sarajevo)
Dr ILIC
Contact taken for one
victim
YUGOSLAVIA : (Names will follow)
KOSOVO : (Contact
taken)
NETHERLANDS :
XXX, victim of the 1992 catastrophe in
Amsterdam (Bijlmermeer)
Louis BERTHOLLET, association of victims of
Bijlmermeer
GREAT-BRITAIN :
(Invited : National Gulf Veterans and
Families Association)
GREECE ? (Contact taken for one soldier,
representative of the association demanding to cancel the presence of Greek
troops in Kosovo)
OTHERS ? We are waiting for other
answers.
2. Full program of three
days
We propose to those who can to stay a few days more in
Brussels. It seems to us very important to organize a high level
activity in the capital of Natgo, at this present time. Also We can provide
you accomodation and transport in Belgium, and also contacts with the
press.
This is our full program:
Tuesday 27 evening or Wednesday
28 morning: arrival
Wednesday 28 : interviews, contacts with the press,
contacts (following your wishes) with Belgian medical institutions, experts
and activists.
Thursday 1 (9 - 17) academic symposium in Brussels (Place
will follow)
Thursday evening : Great public
debate
Friday 2 : non public exchange of views between victims,
associations and activists, measures for future cooperation
Friday 2
evening or Saturday 3: departure.
3. How can you
help?
1° Making suggestions to complete (very soon) this
program)
2° Participating
3° Helping for the cost: preparing the
possibility of some small donations to cover the costs of some trips and
some material expenses. Which are limited since every is benevolent
but…
4. Contacts
The representatives of the
Coalition are:
- Marcel Poznansky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Pierre Piérart (Association of Doctors
against Nuclear War):
mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michel
Collon is helping for the preparation of these three days:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
E-mails can be
sent, for the next days, to these mail-address. Afterwards, a specific
secretariat will come.
5. Our platform:
COALITION FOR ABOLITION OF DEPLETED URANIUM
WEAPONS
Depleted Uranium Weapons (D.U.) have been used during the wars in the
Gulf, in Bosnia, in Yugoslavia by the Americans and the British or by Nato.
D.U. weapons have been tested secretly since dozens of years in many army
manoeuvres in the US, Great-Britain, France, Germany, Central America and
Pacific. More than forty countries possess them.
D.U. is producing
alpha radiations. When inhaled in the form of small particles, it becomes a
factor of cancer and the risk is aggravated by different pollutions
(tobacco, motor gas, industrial pollutions…)
The general secretary
of the Nato, George Robertson, supported by most of the national authorities
of the member countries, is maintaining a complement incoherent position to
exonerate the political and military leaders.
These weapons,
chemical, radiological and non-discriminatory are polluting many places in
the world. They are subject to the rule of law of armed conflicts
(Declarations of St Petersburg 1868, The Hague 1899, Protocol of Geneva
1925, Declaration of the Conference in Paris 1989, U.N. Conventions
concerning environment 1976)
In front of aggressions, often
irreparable, against the health of the populations and the soldiers in
Koweït, Irak, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia, it his
now most necessary to form a coalition to demand abolition of the D.U.
weapons.
The "Coalition for Abolition of Depleted Uranium
Weapons" invites associations and political groups to participate or support
this campaign. We are going to prepare with you a program of action to
achieve that goal.
Informations:
Pierre Piérart
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tél./fax: +32 2 376 10 93
Marcel Poznanski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tél 32
2 511 63 10 gsm 32 476 85 56 52
Editeur
responsable: Marc Lemaire, rue de la
Ferme 118/4 BXL 1210, [EMAIL PROTECTED] gsm 32 475 80 31
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