rudd creates new nuclear disarmament body

We will save the world! Actually, I thought such a body already existed?

http://www.bigpond.com/news/breaking/content/20080609/2269260.asp

Rudd heralds new nuclear disarmament body
June 9, 2008 - 4:15PM
Source: ABC
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced the creation of a new international body that will push for nuclear disarmament.

Mr Rudd says Australia will set up a body to be known as the Nuclear Non-Proliferations and Disarmament Commission.

Former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans will co-chair the body, which will take up the work of the defunct Canberra Commission set up by the Keating government in 1995.

Mr Rudd made the announcement in the Japanese city of Kyoto just hours after laying a wreath in Hiroshima for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing and touring a museum documenting the attack.

"Let the world resolve afresh from the ashes of this city - to work together for the common mission of peace for this Asia-Pacific century, and for a world where one day nuclear weapons are no more," he wrote in the museum's guest book.

He echoed his message in public remarks, saying "Hiroshima should cause the world community to resolve afresh that all humankind must exert their every effort for peace in this 21st century".

Mr Rudd's commitment on nuclear issues will likely be welcomed in Japan, where the election of the Labor Party was received with some unease last year.

Mr Rudd later headed to the western Japanese city of Kyoto to highlight one of his signature issues, climate change.

He is due to speak with students at a school in the namesake city of the groundbreaking environmental treaty which mandates cuts in the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for causing global warming.

Mr Rudd later heads on to Nagoya, where he will meet executives of the Toyota Motor Corporation, and to Tokyo for talks with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and an audience with Emperor Akihito.


Betcha US, Israel, Russia & China will flock to join.


GZ