International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation

ABOLITION 2000 -A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons

Schedule of 1998 NPT PrepComm Events

DAILY throughout the Prep Comm: 8-9am Abolition 2000 Daily Caucus.

9-10am NGO Disarmament Committee daily briefings.

Sunday, April 26

Time TBA: NGO Disarmament Committee Orientation for all NGO's present.

Monday, April 27

Morning: 1998 NPT Prep Comm opens.

Morning/Afternoon: Abolition 2000 Public action/demonstration on the Place de Nations.

11:00 am: NGO Orientation for groups not present on Sunday

1-3pm Vijali Hamilton - artist presents her work for World Peace.

6:00 PM (Following NPT Session) Presentation to Ambassador Eugeniusz Wyzner of over 13 million signatures calling for nuclear abolition by the Abolition 2000 Network(E Bldg., Outside conference room XX, 3rd floor)

6:30-8:30pm: Reception and Meeting, Religious Working Group of Abolition 2000, including leaders of various faith communities. Ecumenical Centre.

Tuesday, April 28

1-2pm: INESAP Briefing: HEU for research reactors, the case of the new FRM II in Garching: Wolfgang Liebert.

3-6pm: NGO presentations at the NPT Prep Comm.

6:30pm: Abolition 2000 with INES/INESAP/IALANA/IPB/IPPNW/LCNP: Towards a Nuclear Weapons Free World: Joseph Rotblat, David Krieger, Douglas Roche, Mioko Matsubara

Wednesday, April 29

1-2pm: INESAP Briefing: Cut-off for nuclear weapons-usable materials in the NPT review process: Martin Kalinowski, Wolfgang Liebert.

5-7pm: Abolition 2000 Working Group: Beyond the CTB with Western States Legal Foundation: Laboratory Testing and Article VI Obligation for Disarmament: Jacqueline Cabasso, Vladamir Iakmets, Lysianne Alezard, Ted Taylor, Andrew Lichterman, Andre Gsponer, Greg Mello.

Thursday, April 30

1-2pm: INESAP Briefing: Multilateralizing the Nuclear Disarmament Process: Owen Green.

2-4pm INESAP/IALANA/LCNP -The Nuclear Weapons Convention: Political Strategies and Verification: Marav Datan, Martin Kalinowski, Wolfgang Liebert, Juergen Scheffran.

Friday, May 1

1-2pm: INESAP Briefing: Cooperative non-intrusive monitoring for a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East: F.H. Hammad, Reuven Pedatzur.

2-10: Abolition 2000 annual meeting (part 1).

Saturday, May 2

9-12pm Abolition 2000 annual meeting (part 2).

2-6pm Middle Power Initiative for Nuclear Abolition - Consultation Session, MPI Steering Committee

Monday, May 4

1-3pm Abolition 2000 Working Group on Health Effects of Radiation with The Atomic Mirror, Hiti Tau and WEDO. The Toxic Legacy of the Nuclear Age: Pamela Meidell, Pamela Ransom, Janine Allis-Smith and Gabriel Tetiarahi,Jacques Mongnet, Alla Yaroshinskaya (invited)

5-7pm: IPB with Abolition 2000: NATO Expansion. Cora Weiss, Moderator, Ben Cramer, Rae Street, Bahig Nassar

Tuesday, May 5

8:45am Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala, Undersecretary General of the Dept. of Disarmament Affairs to address NGOs

1-3pm Abolition 2000 with: International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms. Nuclear Strategies and the ICJ Opinion: John Burroughs, Alyn Ware, Hans Christensen, George Abi Saab, Merav Datan and Peter Weiss

5-7pm: Abolition 2000 Working Group on Sustainable Energy with: Plutonium Free Future and GRACE: Nuclear Energy and Environmentally Sustainable Alternatives. Claire Greensfelder, Alice Slater, Ted Taylor.

Wednesday,May 6th:

5-7pm: Abolition 2000 with: Women for a Free and Independent Pacific: Nuclear Waste, Colonialism and Environmental Racism. Myrla Baldonado, Gabriel Tetiarahi, Rachel Julian, Michael Simmons.

May 6 or 7th: IPB to host meeting of landmines and nuclear disarmament activists on sharing of strategies and lessons to be learned from Ottawa process