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 by Staff Writers Brussels (AFP) June 10, 2018
Belgian police arrested eight anti-nuclear protesters after they entered an air base on Sunday in the east of the country, activists from Agir pour la Paix (Act for Peace) said. Suspecting the base houses US nuclear weapons, the campaigners for a nuclear-free zone hauled themselves over two levels of security barriers around 0730 (0530 GMT). The Kleine-Brogel base houses around 20 of a 183-strong remaining post Cold War stockpile of US nuclear bombs in Europe, according to estimates by Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists. "They entered holding aloft banners," Agir pour la Paix said in a statement as spokesman Stephanie Demblon recognised the trespassers could face five years in jail for "civil disobedience". The NGO wants the Belgian government to establish "a roadmap for the withdrawal of nuclear weapons from Belgian territory" and to sign the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty. Belgian television showed the protesters using a ladder to clamber over wire-topped fences and reported all eight were released several hours later but now face prosecution.
UN chief calls for 'total elimination' of nuclear weapons Geneva (AFP) May 24, 2018 The UN chief said Thursday the "total elimination" of nuclear weapons remained a UN priority, warning against a burgeoning new arms race. In a speech to students at Geneva University, Antonio Guterres presented a new disarmament agenda to face challenges emerging in a world where "Cold War tensions have returned." "Today, the total elimination of nuclear weapons remains our priority," he said, cautioning that long-championed global "efforts to achieve this goal are in state of severe crisis." ... read more
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