By Courtesy of Pauric Cannon.
LETTER OF SOLIDARITY
WITH THE JAPANESE PEACE WALK
AND THE COMMEMORATION CEREMONIES AT HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI.
This year we commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the bombing of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On this occasion, the members of the Irish
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Irish CND) would like to express
our solidarity with the Japanese Peace Walk from Tokyo to Hiroshima,
and with the ceremonies of commemoration at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Ireland is a nuclear-free country, and our major cities are nuclear-weapon
-free zones. Our members support the Mayors for Peace Campaign
led by the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We must all support
one another in the struggle for the Total Abolition of nuclear
weapons and all weapons of mass-destruction.
We send our greetings to our many friends in Japan, including
those who visited us in Ireland - members of the Peace Movements
and of the Peace Pole organisation, and the Buddhist monks from
Nipponzan Myohoji. We will be holding our own commemorations in
solidarity with you in Dublin and in Cork.
We thank our member, Pauric Cannon, for conveying our message
of solidarity to you all, and ask him to express our special sympathy
for the Hibakusha.
Signed,
Rev. Fergal Brennan,
Chairman, Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.