Nobel recognition for ICAN
The Nobel Peace Prize has been warded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, welcomed the award and in a letter to ICAN said: ‘This award could not come a more appropriate moment.’
Berit Reiss-Andersen, the Nobel committee chair, said it was due to the group’s ‘groundbreaking efforts to achieve a treaty prohibition’ on nuclear weapons.
In July, after pressure from NGOs such as ICAN and many faith groups including Quakers, 122 nations backed the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
ICAN is a coalition of hundreds of NGOs, such as Quakers.
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Whilst it is encouraging to know that 122 countries supported the U.N Treaty many of those who did not support were European countries, one of whom is Norway, the country awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. In fact 31 non nuclear countries did not support the Treaty claiming that they relied on the United States nuclear capability for their own security. All the nuclear countries were against the Treaty the exception being Iran.
By TWJ 123 on 14th October 2017 - 16:27
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