19 March 2013 “We have succeeded in reframing the issue of nuclear weapons,” the Norwegian foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, told representatives from 127 states, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and a range of UN agencies and civil society actors in Oslo on 5 March. Mexico had just announced its intention to host a follow-up to the Oslo conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, and everyone working for a treaty
“Let’s act up! Ban nuclear weapons completely and unconditionally.”
“If Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr were alive today, they would be part of ICAN.”
“I salute ICAN for working with such commitment and creativity.”
“We can do it together. With your help, our voice will be made still stronger. Imagine peace.”
“Governments say a nuclear weapons ban is unlikely. Don’t believe it. They said the same about a mine ban treaty.”
“With your support, we can take ICAN its full distance – all the way to zero nuclear weapons.”
“Because I cannot tolerate these appalling weapons, I whole-heartedly support ICAN.”
“I can imagine a world without nuclear weapons, and I support ICAN.”
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