Letter to Foreign Office about Iran
The Northern Friends Peace Board has urged the foreign secretary ‘to take every possible step to de-escalate tensions’ in relation to Iran
The Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has called for the UK to ‘act to reduce tensions and commit to nuclear disarmanent’ in the light of escalating conflict with Iran, particularly since attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
In a letter emailed to the foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt on 19 June, the NFPB urged the foreign secretary ‘to take every possible step to de-escalate tensions’ and ‘recognise the value of strengthening its commitment to the existing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to give serious consideration to the widespread desire for nuclear disarmament expressed in the UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons’.
The letter says: ‘It is in all our interests that differences are resolved through careful negotiation and diplomacy, and not through increasing military presence in the region and incautious political pronouncements.’
