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Return to the International Court of Justice on nuclear
disarmament obligations
In 1996 the ICJ concluded that:
There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith
and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear
disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective
international control.
The NWS claim that they are complying
with this obligation primarily through reductions in numbers
of nuclear weapons. However, the majority of other governments
- along with academics, nuclear disarmament experts and civil
society organizations - claim that the NWS are violating this
obligation by continuing (and even expanding) their policies
for the threat and use of nuclear weapons, modernizing and
renewing their nuclear stockpiles, and refusing to enter into
multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations.
Following a conference in the
European Parliament in July commemorating the 10th anniversary
of the historic 1996 ICJ opinion, IALANA established a working
group which has prepared a draft United Nations General Assembly
resolution requesting the ICJ for an advisory opinion on the
requirements to meet nuclear disarmament obligations.
IALANA, in collaboration with other key
organizations (International Peace Bureau, World Court Project
UK, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War (IPPNW) and International Network of Engineers and Scientists
Against Proliferation (INESAP), is now consulting with governments
that might be willing to introduce this resolution to the
United Nations. If you would like to support, and if you have
contacts with governments that might be interested in supporting,
please contact John Burroughs
(USA) or Alyn Ware (New Zealand).
For more information see:
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