EDI N BVRG H THE CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL

Mayors for Peace Network

City of Edinburgh Council 15 September 2005

Purpose of report 1 To consider the decision ol the Executive o 23 August 2005 on the Mayors for Peace Network.

Main report 2 At its meeting on 23 August 2005 the Executive considered a report by the Chief Executive on an invitation to the Council to join the Mayors for Peace Network and to endorse the Network’s statement on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. 3 The Executive agreed that the Council become a member of the Mayors for Peace Network and indicate its support for the Network’s statement.

4 The Executive’s decision has been called in to the Council in terms of Standing Order 58. The lead signatory is Councillor Mclnnes.

Recommendations 5 That the Council consider the Executive’s decision.

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Appendices Report no E/I52/05-06/CE by the Chief Executive

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Background Minute of the Executive of 23 August 2005 Papers

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Item no + GDINBVRGH + THE CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL

Mayors for Peace Network

Executive of the Council 23 August 2005

Purpose of report 1 This report is submitted in terms of the decision of the Council on 30 June 2005 that I report on the remaining issues in relation to the invitation to the Council to join the Mayors for Peace Network.

Main report The Council had been advised that attendance at the annual conference of the Mayors for Peace Network, which took place in Hiroshima, Japan from 4 to 6 August, was no longer being considered. The previous decision by the Executive, at its meeting on 21 June, had been called in to the Council in terms of Standing Order 58 but, in light of that position, the call-in was subsequently withdrawn at the Council meeting. The remaining issues on which I was asked to report are: i. whether the Council should become a member of the Mayors for Peace Network; and ii. whether the Council should sign the statement at Appendix 1 to this report. Mayors for Peace is an international non-governmental organisation recognised under the United Nations Charter. As at April this year, it comprised 912 cities from 1IO countries and territories which support the Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities Toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, proposed by the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in June 1982 at the Second UN Session on Disarmament. The Network seeks to build solidarity and co-operation among cities and to contribute to world peace, primarily by raising global public consciousness regarding the abolition of nuclear weapons. It also seeks to address collectively the many problems that threaten peaceful co-existence, including hunger, poverty, human rights abuses, local conflict and environmental destruction. While almost 30 UK councils are members of Mayors for Peace, Glasgow and Shetland Islands Councils are the only Scottish members at present and, against the background of growing Edinburgh/Glasgow co-operation, it may be appropriate for this Council now to become a member of the Network. It may, however, be too late for the Council formally to endorse the statement at 1 Appendix 1, since the objective was to release this to the media at the United Nations on 23 May 2005, although the Council could still indicate its support for the sentiments of the statement. Financial Implications 7 As previously reported, membership of the Mayors for Peace Network involves no annual fee or financial obligation.

Recommendations

8 The Executive is recommended to agree that the Council become a member of the Mayors for Peace Network and indicate its support for the statement at Appendix 1.

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Appendices Appendix 1 Statement and Signatories

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Background Report to Executive of 21 June 2005 Papers Report to Council of 30 June 2005

2 Joint Statement Page 1 of 8

Mayors and parliamentarians cooperate for a nuclear weapons free world

The following statement was released by mayors and members ofparliaments and congresses, meeting in conjunction with the 7thReview Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in May 2005, and has been endorsed by the mayors aizd national legislators listed below:

Statement

As mayors and legislators we have a role to protect the security of citizens living within our jurisdictions and to protect our localities for future generations.

Such security is not advanced when there remain 30,000 nuclear weapons, many of which are deployed and ready for use at short notice. The risk of nuclear weapons use - by accident, design or miscalculation ? is increasing due to the proliferation of nuclear weapons to new States, the possibility of non-State access to nuclear weapons and bomb-building materials, and the expanded nuclear weapons use doctrines of the nuclear weapon States.

Regardless of where nuclear weapons are targeted or detonated, or whether they are used by terrorist organisations or State militaries, no-one would escape the calamitous consequences of a nuclear attack. Even cities that are not the direct brunt of an attack would feel the global economic, social and medical repercussions, which would dwarf those of 9/11. Any nuclear weapons use would cause unimaginable devastation requiring massive aid, global effects from nuclear fall-out and a rise in refugees seeking to escape the most contaminated regions.

The only way to prevent nuclear weapons use is to eliminate all nuclear weapons as mandated by Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the 1996 International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons. Mayors for Peace have provided a vision for the achievement of a nuclear weapons free world by 2020.

Therefore, we the undersigned mayors and parliamentarians, call for the commencement of negotiations which would culminate in the comprehensive abolition and elimination of nuclear weapons and the international control of nuclear materials to prevent clandestine bomb-making.

If a small number of States continue to prevent such negotiations being initiated at the Conference on Disarmament and also at the NPT Review Conferences, then governments should be encouraged to find an alternative track to nuclear disarmament as was done with the Landmines Convention.

The overwhelming majority of citizens in our cities, countries and around the world support the abolition of these ultimate weapons of mass destruction, and we mayors and legislators have a responsibility to use our authority to ensure the implementation of this imperative.

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Endorsers:

Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan

Yzermans Alain, Mayor of Houthalen-Helchteren,

Senator , Australia

Senator Abacca Anjain-Maddison, Marshall Islands

Hon. Larry Bagnell, P.C. M.P, Canada

Chris Balance MSP, Scotland

Tim Barnett Mp, New Zealand

Senator , Australia

Angelika Beer, Member of the European Parliament (MEP)

Eddie de Bloack, Mayor, , Belgium

Senator Stefan0 BOCO,Italy

Hartmut Bopp, Mayor of Aarbergen, Germany

Rosa Maria Bonas i Pahisa MP, Spain

Senator Massimo Bonavita, Italy

Jozef de Borger, Mayor Gemeente , Belgium

Hiltrud Breyer MdEP

Dr Andre Brie, MEP

Senator , Australia

Dr. Charles Yaw Brempong-Yeboah MP, Ghana

Senator Giovanni Brunale, Italy

Senator Paolo Brutti, Italy

Jim Burch, Mayor of Palo Alto, California, USA

Raphael Chegeni MP, Tanzania

Arthur Chesterfield Evans MP, Australia

Keiko Chiba MP, Japan

Senator Nando Dalla Chiesa, Italy

David N. Cicilline Mayor of Providence, USA

Dave Cieslewicz, Mayor of Madison, USA

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Ian Cohen MP, Australia

Frank Cook MP, United Kingdom

Raffaele Cortesi, Mayor of Lug0 (Ra) Italy

Senator Fiorello Cortiana, Italy

Libby Davies MP, Canada

Luc Dehaene, Mayor of Ieper, Belgium

Elettra Deiana Mp, Italy

Roe1 Deseyn, MP, Belgium

Senator Anna Donati, Italy

Vera Dua, MP, Belgium

Jill Evans MEP

Hans Eyssen, Mayor , Belgium

Senator Antonello Falomi, Italy

Senator Angelo Flammia, Italy

Pietro Folena MP, Italy

Daniel Fontaine, Mayor of Aubagne, France

Deb Foskey MP, Australia

Monica Frassoni, Member of the European Parliament

Antonelle Friestein, Representing the Mayor of Viorglio, Italy

Senator Pierre Galand, Belgium

Eloi Glorieux MP, Belgium

Senator Leopoldo Di Girolamo, Italy

Councillor Brian Gregson, for the Convener, Shetland Islands Council

Senator , Australia

Paul Van Grembergen, Mayor Evergem, Belgium

Edith Cuttat Gyger, Municipalite de Delemont

Sylvia Hale MP, Australia

David Hammerstein MEP

Agne Hansson MP, Sweden

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Rebecca Harms MEP

Satu Hassi, MEP

Lotta Hedstrom MP, Sweden

Heide Ruehle MEP

RogerHeyvaert, Mayor of , Belgium

David T. Hildt, Mayor of Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA

Alain Hutchinson MEP

Satoshi Inoue MP, Japan

Tadashi Inuzuka MP, Japan

Senator Nuccio Iovene, Italy

Marie Anne Isler Beguin, MEP

Patrick Janssens Mayor, Belgium

Jenny Jones, Representing the Mayor of London

Gisela Kallenbach MEP

Sandra Kanck, Australia

Seiichi Kaneta, MP, Japan

Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann MEP

Sergey Kolesnikov MY, Russia

Dirk de Kort, Mayor of Brasschaat, Belgium

Rep Dennis Kucinich, USA

Willy Kuijpers, Mayor of , Belgium

Jean Lambert, MEP

Hallgeir Langeland MP, Norway

CmenLawrence Mp, Australia

Hon. Jack Layton MP, Canada

Etienne LePage, Mayor of Erpe-Mere, Belgium

Bruno de Lille, Deputy Mayor, Belgium

Keith Locke MP, Aotearoa-New Zealand

Senator Aleandro Longhi, Italy

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Herman De Loor, Mayor of Zottegem, Belgium

Josiane Lowie, Mayor of Staden, Belgium

Caroline Lucas, Member of the European Parliament

Lynn MacLaren MP, Australia

Magnar Bergo, MP Norway

Senator Luigi Malabarba, Italy

Dr Wayne Mapp MP, New Zealand

Catherine Margate, Mayor of Malakoff, France

Dee Margetts MP, Australia

Senator Luigi Marino, Italy

Tony Martin MP, Canada

Senator Francesco Martone, Italy

Brian Masse MI', Canada

Alexa McDonough MY, Canada

Willy Minnebo, Mayor of Zwijndrecht, Belgium

Luisa Morgantini, Member of European Parliament

Senator Andrew Murray, Australia

Masaharu Nakagawa MP, Japan

Senator , Australia

Gerard Onesta, Vice-President European Parliament

Waiter Van Parijs, Mayor of Beernem, Belgium

Claes Paul, Mayor of , Belgium

President Filippo Penati, Province of Milan

Senator Oskar Peterlini, Italy

Luc Peetermans, Mayor, Kerkstraat, Belgium

Tobias Pflueger MEP

Ingrid Pira, Mayor, Belgium

Senator Leo Platvoet, Netherlands

Eddy Poffe, Mayor of , Belgium

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Bob Price, Lord Mayor of Oxford, United Kingdom

Darren Ray, Mayor Port Phillip, Australia

Lee Rhiannon MP, Australia

Senator Aden Ridgeway, Australia

Senator Natale Ripamonti, Italy

Cllr Bill Risby, former Lord Mayor, Manchester City Council, England

Ross Robertson MP, New Zealand

Matt Robson MP, New Zealand

Senator Emeritus Douglas Roche, Canada

Raul Romera MEP

Claes Roxbergh MP, Sweden

Senator Dulce Maria Sauri Riancho, Mexico

Senator Piero di Siena, Italy

Bill Siksay MP, Canada

Hon Nick Smith MP, New Zealand

Warren Snowdon MP, Australia

Senator Tommaso Sodano, Italy

Lesley Soper MF', New Zealand

Bart Staes, MEP

Peter Stoffer MP, Canada

Senator , Australia

Tsuneo Suzuki MP, Japan

Adolfo R. Taylhardat, Member of the Parliament of Latin America

Koen T;Rijen, MP, Belgium

Senator Patrick Vankrunkelsven, Belgium

Daniel Vanpoucke, Mayor of Meulebeke, Belgium Hendrik Verbrugge, Mayor of Alken, Belgium.

Roger Verduyckt, Mayor of ,

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Mayor De Vis Dirk, Ham, Belgium

Senator Luigi Viviani, Italy

Senator Tana de Zulueta, Italy

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Report title Mayors for Peace Network

In accordance with the Council’s constitutional arrangements, the contents of this report have been noted by the appropriate Executive Member.

Without prejudice to the integrity of the report, and the recommendations contained within it, the Executive Member expresses hidher own views as follows:

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For information - Paragraph 8.2 of the Council’s Constitutional Arrangements states:

“Officers will continue to prepare reports, with professional advice and recommendations, on matters requiring decisions by the Executive:

> a report seeking decisions on matters of corporate strategy, corporate policy and corporate projects will be submitted direct to the Executive > a report seeking decisions on matters relating to the special responsibilities allocated to an individual member of the Executive will be submitted, in the first instance, to that member. The member will add his or her own recommendation to it before submission to the Executive. Where the Executive member disagrees with the advice and the recommendation of the officers, the Executive member will also state his or her reasons.” From - “Capital City Government - The New Arrangements” (Appendix 2 - Constitutional Arrangements) - agreed at Full Council 18 May 2000.

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