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Endorsers of the Joint Statement As at August 1 A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Our Common Good Joint statement of religious leaders, parliamentarians and mayors Endorsers as at August 1, 2017 Parliamentarians (and former parliamentarians): • Tomoko Abe MP (Japan) • Suray Carrillo MP (Costa Rica) • Shinya Adachi MP (Japan) • Nessa Childers MEP (Ireland) • Hirotaka Akamatsu MP (Japan) Member Committee on the Environment, Public Health • Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh MP (United Kingdom) and Food Safety Deputy Shadow Leader in the UK House of Commons • Saber Chowdhury MP (Bangladesh) • Ichiro Aisawa MP (Japan) PNND Co-President Secretary General of the Religions for Peace President of the Inter Parliamentary Union Parliamentary Support Group, Former Chair of the • Mauren Clarke MP, (Costa Rica) Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs • David Clendon MP (New Zealand) • Senator Byrganym Aitimova (Kazakhstan) • Barry Coates MP (New Zealand) Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee • Senator David Coltart (Zimbabwe) Former Kazakhstan Ambassador to the United Nations PNND Past President. • Mani Shankar Aiyar MP (India) Former Minister of Education, Sports and Culture PNND Co-President. Chair of the Rajiv Gandhi Action • Tarja Cronberg (Finland) Plan Group for a Nuclear Free and Nonviolent World PNND Co-President, Former Chair of the European Order Parliament Contact Group with Iran • Seiken Akamine MP (Japan) • David Cunliffe MP (New Zealand) • Cr Kozo Akino (Japan) Disarmament Spokesperson for the Labour Party • Christian Allard MSP (Scotland) • Senator Salwa Damen-Masri (Jordan) • Meyrem Almaci MP (Belgium) PNND Council Member. Chairperson of the Committee Leader of the Greens, Belgian Chamber of for Population and Development Representatives • Karima Delli MEP (France) • Antonio Álvarez MP (Costa Rica) Member Committee on Transport and Tourism • Abacca Anjain Maddison (Marshall Islands) • Graeme Dey MSP (Scotland) PNND Past-President. Former senator for Rongelap Deputy Convener, Rural Affairs, Climate Change and • Yoichiro Aoyagi MP (Japan) Environment Committee • Aytuğ Atici MP (Turkey) • Paul Dewar MP (Canada) PNND Council Member PNND Co-President. • Danielle Auroi MP (France) Opposition Critic (Spokesperson) on Foreign Affairs President of the European affairs committee, National • Natalia Diaz Quintana (Costa Rica) Assembly President of the Foreign Affairs Committee • Nobuyuki Baba MP (Japan) • Anneliese Dodds MEP (United Kingdom) • Brando Benifei MEP (Italy) Chair Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation Board Member EU40 (Network of Young MEPs) and Association Parliamentary Committee • Chic Brodie MSP (Scotland) • Linda Duncan MP (Canada) Convener of the Cross-Party Group on Social Enterprise PNND Canada Co-Chair • Agnieszka Brugger MdB (Germany) • Pastor Eurico MP (Brazil) Green Party Spokesperson for Disarmament Member of the International Relations Committee • Tony de Brum (Marshall Islands) • Linda Fabiani MSP (Scotland) Former Minister for Foreign Affairs Former Chair European and External Relations • Klaus Buchner MEP (Germany) Committee Member Committee on Foreign Affairs • Alain Ficini MP (Monaco) • Maria August Calle Andrade MP (Ecuador) PNND Council Member Member of the National Assembly • Javier Cambronero MP (Costa Rica) Representatives of the lower houses or national assemblies are listed as MP (Member of Parliament). Representatives from upper houses or senates are listed as Senator. The exception is Japan where the representatives from the upper house are known as Councillor (Cr) • Ute Finckh-Krämer MdB (Germany) • Birgitta Jonsdottir MP (Iceland) Vice-Chair of the Bundestag Sub-committee on PNND Council Member Disarmament and Arms Control • Mito Kakizawa MP (Japan) • Martin Foley MP (Australia) • Cr Mieko Kamimoto (Japan) Member for Albert Park, Parliament of Victoria • Saichi Kamiyama MP (Japan) • Hedy Fry MP (Canada) • Ichiro Kanke MP (Japan) OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative • Cr Genjiro Kaneko (Japan) on Gender Issues • Akira Kasai MP (Japan) • Cr Kenzo Fujisue (Japan) • Cr Ryuhei Kawada (Japan) PNND member • Takeo Kawamura MP (Japan) • Yukihisa Fujita MP (Japan) • Cr Naoki Kazama (Japan) Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign • Sue Kedgley (New Zealand) Affairs and Defense Wellington City Council • Cr Mizuho Fukushima (Japan) • Colin Keir MSP (Scotland) • Cr Tetsuro Fukuyama (Japan) • MK Dov Khenin (Israel) • Yasushi Furukawa MP (Japan) PNND Council Member • Alena Gajdůšková (Czech Republic) • Bill Kidd MSP (Scotland) PNND Council member. Former senator. PNND Co-President, Chair Scottish Parliament Cross- Former Vice-President of the Senate. Party Group on Nuclear Disarmament • Koichiro Genba MP (Japan) • Roderich Kiesewetter MdB (Germany) • Rob Gibson MSP (Scotland) PNND Council Member • Phil Goff MP (New Zealand). Deputy Chairman of the Bundestag Sub-Committee for Chair of PNND New Zealand. Former NZ Minister for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Disarmament and Arms Control. • Seiji Kihara MP (Japan) • Ana Gomes MEP (Portugal) • Makiko Kikuta MP (Japan) Deputy Chair, PNND European Parliament Section • Takatane Kiuchi MP (Japan) • Shigeyuki Goto MP (Japan) • Shuhei Kishimoto MP (Japan) • Yuichi Goto MP (Japan) • Fumiaki Kobayashi MP (Japan) • Masazumi Gotoda MP (Japan) • Cr Yukihito Koga (Japan) • Kennedy Graham MP (New Zealand) • Cr Akira Koike (Japan) Green Party Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, • Yasuko Komiyama MP (Japan) Disarmament and Defence • Kateřina Konečná MEP (Czech Republic) • Karoline Graswander-Hainz MEP (Austria) Committee on Environment, Public Health & Food Safety • Hiroshi Hase MP • Cr Hiroyuki Konishi (Japan) • Tim Guldimann MP (Switzerland) • Shoichi Kondo MP (Japan) Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee • Taro Kono MP (Japan) • Barbara Gysi MP (Switzerland) PNND Co-President PNND Council Member Former Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee • Cr Shinkun Haku (Japan) • Kazuko Kori MP (Japan) • Jill Hall MP (Australia) • Keiichi Koshimizu MP (Japan) Former Labour Party Whip in Parliament • Dennis Kucinich (United States) • Cr Masayoshi Hamada (Japan) PNND Alumni Council Member • Cr Yuuichiro Hata (Japan) Former Mayor of Cleveland and Member of the US • Akihiro Hatsushika MP (Japan) House of Representatives • Jamie Hepburn MSP (Scotland) • Chris Laidlaw (New Zealand) Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Chair, Wellington Regional Council Health • Jean Lambert MEP (United Kingdom) • Edine von Herold (Costa Rica) Chair, European Parliament Delegation for relations PNND Council Member with South Asia • Cr Daisaku Hiraki (Japan) • Christian Levrat MP (Switzerland) • Hiroshi Imazu MP (Japan) President of the Foreign Affairs Committee • Adam Ingram MSP (Scotland) • Sabine Lösing MEP (Germany) Former Minister for Children and Early Years Vice-Chair, European Parliament Committee on Security • Cr Kuniko Inoguchi (Japan) and Defense • Cr Satoshi Inoue (Japan) • Alain Lubamba wa Lubamba MP (DRC) • Shinji Inoue MP (Japan) Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs • Cr Michihiro Ishibashi (Japan) • Richard Lyle MSP (Scotland) • Shinichi Isa MP (Japan) • Syouzou Majima MP (Japan) • Cr Takae Ito (Japan) • Hideki Makihara MP (Japan) • Yoshitaka Ito MP (Japan) • Karen Makishima MP (Japan) • Kenta Izumi MP (Japan) • John Mason MSP (Scotland) • Senator Janis Johnson (Canada) • Sekio Masuta MP (Japan) Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs • Ibrahim Matola MP (Malawi) and International Trade Leader of the United Democratic Front party • Stewart Maxwell MSP (Scotland) • Cr Kohei Otsuka (Japan) Convenor of the Education and Culture Committee • Dimitrios Papadimoulis MEP (Greece) • Mark McDonald MSP (Scotland) Vice-President of the European Parliament • Christina McKelvie MSP (Scotland) • Melissa Parke MP (Australia) Convener of the European and External Affairs Former Minister for International Development Committee • Mark Parnell MLC (Australia) • Hon Lynn MacLaren MLC (Australia) Parliamentary leader, Greens South Australia Parliamentary co-leader Greens Western Australia • Liliane Maury Pasquier MP (Switzerland) • Cr Teruhiko Mashiko (Japan) Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee • Baroness Sue Miller (United Kingdom) • Georgi Pirinski MEP (Bulgaria) PNND Co-President Former Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria • Nobuhide Minorikawa MP (Japan) • Rudolf Rechsteiner MP (Switzerland) • Noriko Miyagawa MP (Japan) PNND Council Member • Cr Shingo Miyake (Japan) • Bilal Qasem MP • Takeshi Miyazaki MP (Japan) Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the • Dr Paul Monaghan MP (United Kingdom) Mediterranean 3rd Committee on Human Rights and Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Dialogue between Civilisations • Senator Claire Moore (Australia) • Sahar Qawasmi MP (Palestine) Shadow Minister for Women Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention • Henry Mora MP (Costa Rica) • Mario Redondo MP (Costa Rica) • Cr Shinji Morimoto (Japan) • Shane Reti MP (New Zealand). • Kentaro Motomura MP (Japan) Deputy Chair of PNND New Zealand • Eoghan Murphy MP (Ireland) • Senator Lee Rhiannon (Australia) Former Head of Ireland Delegation to the OSCE Greens spokesperson on International Aid & Parliamentary Assembly, Former officer of the Development Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisations • Michèle Rivasi MEP (France) • Christine Muttonen MP (Austria) Founder of the Commission for Independent Research PNND Co-President, Vice-President of the OSCE and Information on Radioactivity Parliamentary Assembly • Senator Douglas Roche (Canada) • Akihisa Nagashima MP (Japan) PNND
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