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Dear President Prof. Giuseppe Conte
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January 22, 2020 – 75 years after Hiroshima – the new Treaty on the Prohibition
of Nuclear Weapons (TPAN) will enter into force.
In 2017
with the favorable vote at the UN of 121 States and ratification by 51 States,
finally the majority of States decided to implement the international
obligation, ex art.6 of the Treaty of Non-Proliferation of 1968 “to pursue
in good faith and conclude negotiations leading to global nuclear disarmament
and under strict and effective international control” (see also: The
device letter F of the Advisory opinion of 8.7.1996 International Court of
Justice).
Nuclear
states and their allies including Italy have unlawfully refused to participate
in negotiations and/or adhere to this new treaty prohibiting the threat and
use, possession, production and sale of nuclear weapons and have, on December
4, 2019, declared from London: “NATO will remain a nuclear alliance.”
In October 2020, Italian troops participated in the steadfast noon 2020 exercise
to perfect the evidence of a nuclear war against Russia by virtually destroying
urban and industrial centers in the territorial depth of Central Asia.
Unfortunately, there is no lack of other signs from the nuclear states and
their allies of wanting to use these weapons, which draw their supreme
advantage only from the fact of their unusability, that is, from the
abnormality of their destructive power.
In this
context, the writers believe it appropriate to point out that the joint
planning of the use of nuclear weapons in Italy by NATO, through the decision
of the American president, in addition to being contrary to Articles 10 and 11
of our Constitution and the Treaty of Non-Proliferation, exposes the Italian
population to severe dangers especially in situations of political and social
instability such as those we have witnessed in recent days.
Faced with
the growing threat of these weapons of mass destruction being used, it seems
right that Italy should fulfill its international obligation to adhere to the
new TPAN and/or to renounce their use and to free Italian territory from these
weapons that violate the humanitarian norms of the ius in bello. Your
government and you personally are therefore called to the historic task of
contributing to the final elimination of a danger to the very existence of the
human race and every other form of life on our planet and urgently authorize
the ratification in Italy of the new TPAN (See draft motion of May 29, 2019 by
Senator Loredana De Petris).
Sincerely,
lawyer Dr.Joachim Lau