Ploughshares Monitor articles from December 1999

Ploughshares Monitor archives from December 1999

Defence and human security: ... heightened attention to the fate of civilian populations ... generates ... pressure for timely ... interventions.
December 1, 1999... "Human security," defined by the Department of Foreign Affairs as "safety for people from both violent and nonviolent threats," is now advanced as one of the fundamental objectives of Canadian foreign policy. Internationally, "human security"...

Landmine stockpiles.
December 1, 1999... A new study released in Geneva on 9 December 1999 by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) estimates that the total number of antipersonnel mines in arsenals around the world is still at least 250 million,...

GM Canada again largest military contractor.
December 1, 1999... General Motors of Canada was the largest Canadian arms manufacturer again in 1998, the second successive year the company ranked first in Project Ploughshares' annual listing of top military contractors. With estimated 1998 military sales of...

Conversion survey 1999: global disarmament, demilitarization and demobilization.
December 1, 1999... Conversion Survey 1999 : Global Disarmament, Demilitarization and Demobilization, Bonn International Center for Conversion, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 1999, 180 pages, softcover, ISBN 3-7890-6068-2. Conversion Survey 1999 is...

Canada's UN voting record: Canada's continued weak voting record on nuclear disarmament resolutions ... is robbing this country of credibility ...
December 1, 1999... The Government of Canada declared in its formal response to the December 1998 parliamentary committee report on nuclear weapons that it wanted to devalue the political significance of nuclear weapons and work with the New Agenda Coalition in...

Explanation of Canada's vote (on UN draft resolution A/C.1/54/L.18).
December 1, 1999... Mr. Chairman, I have asked for the floor to explain the Government of Canada's position on the draft resolution A/C.1/54/L. 18 entitled "Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: The Need for a New Agenda" [passed by the General Assembly on 1...

New agenda coalition resolution CA/54/563-GJ (the UN's draft resolution on nuclear disarmament).
December 1, 1999... Final vote on UN resolution A/54/563-G, "Towards a nuclear-free world: the need for a new agenda" (the New Agenda Coalition resolution): In favour (111): Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh,...

Letter to Prime Minister (Jean) Chretien (the government is urged to adopt a more positive policy towards nuclear disarmament).
December 1, 1999... December 3, 1999 Rt. Hon. Jean Chretien Prime Minister of Canada House of Commons Ottawa K1A 0A6 Dear Prime Minister, I write on behalf of the board of Project Ploughshares to urge you and your government to...

Crisis in nuclear disarmament.
December 1, 1999... Canada should be catalyst in urgent response Statement by Member Groups of the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons October 21, 1999 Alarmed by the US Senate's vote against the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), the...

Letter from Cambodia (illegal firearms possession threatens the country's fragile peace).
December 1, 1999... There is something in the air in Cambodia that is difficult to convey in words, yet it is almost palpable like a thick musk. An intermingling of the deep sadness that comes from living with suffering and death; a nervous hesitation of embracing...

NATO at 50: papering over the cracks.
December 1, 1999... Kosovo dominated the discussions at NATO's April 1999 Washington Summit. But Summit participants also addressed a number of other key issues that face the Alliance, including its nuclear policy, the NATO-UN relationship, development of a...

Global nuclear stockpiles.
December 1, 1999... Eight countries are known to possess nuclear weapons: the five acknowledged nuclear-weapon states -- Russia, the United States, France, China, and the United Kingdom -- and three countries -- India, Pakistan, and Israel -- that are not accorded...

Security on the cheap (NATO members are urged to increase military spending by new secretary-general George Robertson).
December 1, 1999... The new Secretary-General of NATO, former British Defence Minister George Robertson, has called on NATO members to increase their military spending. Speaking on the occasion of the NATO Defence Ministers' meeting on 2 December 1999, Lord...