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Relgious Leaders Survey on Nuclear Issues Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: C:\My Documents\Abolish.292.Doc; In-Reply-To: References To: [email protected] From: "Howard W. Hallman" <[email protected]> Subject: Relgious leaders survey on nuclear issues Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: C:\My Documents\abolish.292.doc; In-Reply-To: References: ear Mr. Bash: I am sending via an attachment the results of our survey of presidential candidates on nuclear disarmament issues, which we released yesterday at a news conference in Washington, D.C. We regret that you were unable to respond in time to our survey. However, we were able to use information on Vice President Gore's position available on public record. We are still interested in getting the Vice President's views on three unanswered questions, as follows: (1) What are your views on the morality of possession, threatened use, and actual use of nuclear weapons? (2) If elected president, what specifically will you do during your four-year term to fulfill the U.S. commitment under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to join the other nuclear weapon states in "an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals"? (3) Do see any utility for nuclear weapons in war? If so, please tell us the categories of targets you as commander-in- chief would consider legitimate to strike with nuclear weapons? The campaign still has almost two months remaining. Therefore, we would appreciate receiving an answer to these questions by Vice President Gore at least by the end of September if not earlier. Sincerely yours, Howard Hallman 00908.03.txt[5/8/2017 3:57:07 PM] To: "David Bone" <[email protected]> From: "Howard W. Hallman" <[email protected]> Subject: Song suggestions Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: In-Reply-To: References: Dear Mr. Bone: The local church I belong to has organized a praise band with singers, guitars, keyboard, drums, and my viola (a surprise but it works well on some of the music). After two years our repertoire covers mainly one-half of the gospel -- love God and personal salvation -- but scarcely deals with the other half -- love your neighbor and social holiness (John Wesley's term or peace with justice in today's language). Our minister, who started the praise band and sings in it, has supplied most of the music, but he is open to a fuller representation of the whole gospel. I heard and talked with Jim Strathdee at General Conference and bought his songbooks and recordings. I know of some collections of new hymns with peace and justice themes. Many are good, but their regularity of repeated verse doesn't work very well with a praise band. Would you or somebody else in the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts be able to suggest songs in "praise-band" style that express a concern for social action, for mercy and justice, for peace and environmental integrity? To the extent feasible it will be useful to know not only titles and composers but also sources in print and on recordings if that information is readily available. I will greatly appreciate whatever assistance you can provide. Shalom, Howard Hallman 01121.08.txt[5/8/2017 3:57:07 PM] X-Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 18:03:43 -0400 To: [email protected] From: Felicity Hill <[email protected]> Subject: UNGA FIRST COMMITTEE FINAL PRESS RELEASE Cc: [email protected] Dear All, Please find below the UN Press Release reporting on the final voting that took place in the General Assembly. It's very long but also very useful in that it lists the countries that voted for, against and abstained on each resolution. You can download it direct from http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2000/20001120.ga9829.doc.html Note that previous reports of voting referred to the voting in the First Committee - voting by the whole of the General Assembly is in fact the final count. The Secretary Generals remarks at a recent conference on nuclear weapons and the academy in New York can be found at: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2000/20001120.sgsm7631.doc.html This will be the last time we use this list which was put together specifically for reporting on the First Committee. Thanks very much to those of you that gave feedback on our efforts. best wishes Felicity Hill 20 November 2000 Press Release GA/9829 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS 49 DISARMAMENT, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY TEXTS ON RECOMMENDATION OF ITS FIRST COMMITTEE 01123.01.txt[5/8/2017 3:57:07 PM] 20001120 ABM Treaty, Nuclear Proliferation, Small Arms Among Issues Addressed; Also Decides on 2001 Special Session to Review World Children's Summit The General Assembly this afternoon, acting on the recommendation of its First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), adopted 48 resolutions and one decision on a broad range of disarmament measures, aimed at, among others, the total elimination of nuclear weapons, control of the excessive accumulation of small arms and light weapons, increased transparency and strengthened international security. The Assembly also adopted, without a vote, a 90-Power resolution by which it decided to convene the special session of the General Assembly for follow-up to the World Summit for Children from 19 to 21 September 2001. It further decided to convene two substantive sessions of the Preparatory Committee for the special session in New York during 2001, one from 29 January to 2 February and the other from 11 to 15 June. Among the terms of some of the nuclear-related texts adopted this afternoon which required most of the 32 separate recorded votes, were calls to stem the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; strengthen the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM Treaty); engage the nuclear-weapon States in the process leading to the total elimination of nuclear weapons; and take immediate and urgent steps to reduce the risk of unintentional and accidental use of nuclear weapons. The nuclear-weapon States were also urged, as an interim measure, to immediately de-alert and deactivate their nuclear weapons and to take other concrete measures to further reduce the operational status of their nuclear weapon systems. According to a new resolution on general and complete disarmament, the Assembly welcomed the consensus adoption on 19 May of the Final Document of the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The resolution was adopted by a recorded vote of 163 in favour to 1 against (India), with 3 abstentions (Cuba, Israel, Pakistan). (For details of the vote, see Annex IX). Also today, by a vote of 155 in favour to 1 against (India), with 12 abstentions, the Assembly stressed the central importance of taking practical General Assembly Plenary - 1a - Press Release GA/9829 69th Meeting (PM) 20 November 2000 01123.01.txt[5/8/2017 3:57:07 PM] steps to implement the NPT, including early signature and ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) by all States, as well as a moratorium on nuclear-weapon-test explosions or any other explosions pending its entry into force, according to a resolution entitled "a path to the total elimination of nuclear weapons" (Annex XVIII). Prior to acting on the text, the Assembly adopted operative paragraph 8, which calls upon all States to redouble their efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, including their means of delivery, confirming and strengthening, if necessary, their policies not to transfer equipment, materials or technology that could contribute to the proliferation of those weapons. The provision was adopted by a vote of 150 in favour to 2 against (Egypt, Pakistan), with 10 abstentions (Algeria, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Monaco, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates) (Annex XVII). Under the terms of a text entitled "Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: the need for a new agenda", the Assembly called for: the further reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons based on unilateral initiatives and as an integral part of the nuclear arms reduction and disarmament process; measures to further reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons systems; a diminishing role for nuclear weapons in security policies to minimize the risk that those weapons would ever be used; and, to facilitate the process of their total elimination, the engagement of all the nuclear-weapon States in the process leading to the total elimination of nuclear weapons. The text was adopted by a vote of 154 in favour to 3 against (India, Israel, Pakistan), with 8 abstentions (Bhutan, France, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritius, Monaco, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Uzebkistan) (Annex VIII). Before adopting the draft resolution as a whole, the Assembly took separate votes, on the fifteenth preambular paragraph and operative paragraph 16. The fifteenth preambular paragraph, which welcomes the Final Document of the Sixth Review Conference of the Parties to the NPT, was adopted by a recorded vote of 160 in favour to 3 against (India, Israel, Pakistan), with 1 abstention (Cuba) (Annex VI). It adopted operative paragraph 16 by a vote of 161 in favour to none against, with 4 abstentions (Cuba, India, Israel, Pakistan). That provision notes the agreement of the Sixth Review Conference of the Parties to the NPT that legally binding security assurances by the five nuclear-weapon States to the non-nuclear-weapon States parties to the Treaty strengthen the nuclear non- proliferation regime. The Assembly would call upon the Preparatory Committee to make recommendations to the 2005 Review Conference on that issue (Annex VII). 01123.01.txt[5/8/2017 3:57:07 PM] The Assembly, stressing the paramount importance of full and strict compliance by the parties with the 1972 Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM Treaty), called for continued efforts to strengthen it and preserve its integrity and validity, so that it remained a cornerstone in maintaining global strategic stability.
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