Nuclear Weapons

The World Council of Churches (WCC) will be web streaming the plenary sessions and special events of the upcoming International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC). The video streams will be live from the Mona campus of the University of West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, where the convocation is being held, beginning Wednesday 18 May.

A Safer World Is Our Right

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From CNN

The Senate voted Wednesday to approve the new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia -- a major foreign policy victory for the Obama administration near the end of the lame-duck session of Congress.

Training Day: March 25th. Special training for Presbyterians:
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The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, in consultation with Mark Koenig of the Presbyterian Peace Program, requests your action regarding the new START treaty that President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed on April 8, 2010. Ratification requires approval first of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and then the support of at least 67 senators on the floor.

We ask you to write members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee immediately (it may come out of committee on July 27) and your own Senators before August 3 (when it may come to a vote).

After a year of negotiations, the US and Russia signed a new treaty to reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles in both countries and make the world that much safer.

A supermajority of 67 senators is needed to ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).

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