Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
- Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
The Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons was initiated by the Prime Minister of Australia the Honourable Paul Keating in November 1995 to deliberate on issues of nuclear proliferation and how to eliminate the world of nuclear weapons. The result of the Commission was published as the Canberra Report in August 1996. The report was presented by Alexander Downer, Australia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the United Nations on September 30, 1996 and the Conference on Disarmament on January 30, 1997. [Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, [http://www.dfat.gov.au/cc/cchome.html Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons] .]
The Commission was convened in the Australian Federal Capital City of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. Subsequent meetings were held in Vienna and New York. The Commission consisted of a number of notable persons including Professor Joseph Rotblat, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize; Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France; Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense and President of the World Bank Group; General George Butler, former Commander of the United States Strategic Air Command; Doctor Maj Britt Theorin, then President of the International Peace Bureau; Field Marshal Michael Carver, former Chief of the General Staff and Defence Staff; Professor Robert O'Neill, Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University and former director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies; and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer and environmentalist.
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* [http://www.dfat.gov.au/cc/cchome.html Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons] - Official site, includes full text of report.
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