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21. Welcomes the growing awareness in the public and among politicians that the strategy complements and supports the Mayors for Peace campaign to ban nuclear weapons and its ‘2020 Vision’ of a world free of nuclear weapons by that date; underlines the responsibility of parliaments and parliamentarians to promote nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament and welcomes the efforts of the global Parliamentary Network on Nuclear Disar ...[+++]mament (PNND);

18. Welcomes the fact that the growing awareness of the public and politicians complements and supports the Mayors for Nuclear Disarmament Campaign and its ‘2020 Vision’ of a world free of nuclear weapons by the year 2020; underlines the responsibility of parliaments and parliamentarians in promoting nuclear non‑proliferation and disarmament and welcomes the efforts of the global Parliamentary Network on Nuclear Disarmament (PNND);

It was an experiment intended to stabilise the region, secure access to oil and facilitate disarmament and demilitarisation, but it failed, and the war against terrorism, having driven a wedge between the European allies, is seen by the Arab world as a strategic campaign to secure oil supplies.

I want to acknowledge some of the many individuals and groups who have been working with dedication for many years on this important issue: Ernie Regher and Bill Robinson of Project Ploughshares; the newly appointed senator from Alberta, Doug Roche, a veritable one man disarmament machine who has done an extraordinary job in this area; a broad cross-section of Canadian churches; Peter Coombes, Gillian Skeet and many others of End the Arms Race in British Columbia; the many organizations of the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Debbie Grisdale of the Physicians for Global Survival; Veterans Against Nuclear Arms; Trina Bo ...[+++]oth of the Canadian Peace Alliance; the United Nations Association in Canada; the World Federalists of Canada; Pugwash; the Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout; and Irene and Norm Abbey of the Nanoose Conversion Campaign.