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Brussels, 26 January
2001
Coalition for Abolition of Depleted Uranium Weapons
Belgium
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 an international debate in Brussels, on the 1st of March. Please find 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
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Nato and the Western armies tried for a long time 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) Frederic LOORE, investigation journalist (Journal du Samedi), author of La Guerre invisible Pierre PIERART, professor (Association of Doctors against Nuclear
War) FRANCE : Herve 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) 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 : privatte exchange of views between victims, associations and activists, measures for future cooperation Friday 2 evening or Saturday 3: departure. 3. How can you help? 1ƒ Making suggestions to complete (very soon) this program 2ƒ Participating 3ƒ 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 butÖ 4. Contacts The representatives of the Coalition are: - Marcel Poznansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Pierre Pierart (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. 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 pollutionsÖ) 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 Koweit, 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 Pierart [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel./fax: +32 2 376 10 93 Marcel Poznanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 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 88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
