International appeal
to Prime Ministers of Japan and India, Shinzo Abe and Narendra Modi DO NOT SIGN THE INDIA-JAPAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT DO NOT ALLOW THE REPROCESSING OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL
It has become clear from media reports that in ongoing negotiations on the India-Japan Nuclear Agreement, the Government of Japan has caved in to demands from the Government of India that India be allowed to reprocess spent nuclear fuel.
There is a danger that plutonium extracted from spent fuel generated by Japanese nuclear reactors exported to India, may be diverted to military uses, thus exacerbating nuclear weapons proliferation. Behind closed doors, the Government of Japan is planning a major policy change that is also extremely dangerous.
India is not party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has conducted nuclear tests on two occasions in the past. The first was in 1974 when India used plutonium it had extracted by reprocessing spent nuclear fuel and the second was in 1998. This was followed one week later by Pakistan, a bordering country which India has fought three wars with, testing its own nuclear bomb. The possession of nuclear weapons by these two neighbouring countries, which are often in conflict, raised the risk of nuclear war in the South Asian region to extreme levels.
Negotiations on the India-Japan Nuclear Agreement have been continuing for years without agreement partly because of the strong opposition by the citizens of both countries. However, in its eagerness to export nuclear reactors, the Government of Japan is going to extraordinary lengths to accept extraordinary conditions in order to ram through this agreement. Quite simply, this is a sell-out, complete disregarding of the extreme risks in order to cash in on sales of nuclear reactors.
India has consistently refused to accept the clause which cancels the agreement if India conducts another nuclear test.
How can Japan, the only country in the world to have actually experienced the horrors of nuclear bombs, further spread the seeds of nuclear war, knowing the utter devastation and extreme suffering nuclear war causes?
The Government of Japan must not allow the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel.
The India-Japan Nuclear Agreement must not be signed.
Summer 2015
Signatories:
●Australia
Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia
Friends of the Earth Adelaide
Friends of the Earth Australia
Medical Association for Prevention of War,
People for Nuclear disarmament
Uranium Free NSW (UFNSW)
●Austria
Salzburg Platform Against Nuclear Dangers
●Bangladesh
Center for Bangladesh Studies-CBS
●Canada
Artistes pour le paix
International Institute of Concern for Public Health
Physicians for Global Survival
●China
Humanist Association of Hong Kong
●Finland
Finnish Asiatic Society
●France
Action des Citoyens pour le Désarmement Nucléaire (ACDN)
Echo-Echanges ONG France Japon
FMTS (Fédération Mondiale des travailleurs scientifiques）
Madame Tsouria BERBAR
Yosomono-net France
●Germany
Friedenswerkstatt Mutlangen e.V.
●India
Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Bhavnagar Jilla Gram Bachao Samiti
EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity), Mumbai
Humanist Party
Indian Social Action Forum – INSAF
Jharkhandi Organisation against Radiation (JOAR),Jadugoda
Lokayat and Socialist Party
National Alliance of People’s Movement,Gujarat
Socialist Party
●Indonesia
MANUSIA, Indonesian Antinuclear Society
●Japan
200 organizations
●Netherlands
WISE, World Information Service on Energy
●New Zealand
Wind from Christchurch
●Philippines
Nuclear Free Pilipinas
●Portugal
OTC-Portuguese Organization of Scientific Workers
●Russia
Ecodefense
●Sri Lanka
Free Trade Union Development Center
●Sweden
2020 Vision Campaign
The Swedish Anti Nuclear Movement
●Taiwan
Mom Loves Taiwan
No Nukes Asia Forum Taiwan
Taiwan Environmental Protection Union
●USA
Missouri Zen Center
No Nukes Action
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Nuclear Watch South
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace
The1ness.org
US Peace Council
Western NC Physicians for Social Responsibility
Thank you very much for your cooperation and solidarity!
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