PRESS RELEASES FROM THE RAINBOW WARRIOR CAMPAIGN

JUNE 13th - From Auckland harbour.
JUNE 13th - From off the New Zealand coast.
JUNE 13th - From Brussels
JUNE 14th - On board the Rainbow Warrior
JUNE 28th - Cook Islands government supports Rainbow Warrior Mission
JUNE 29th - French refuse Rainbow Warrior entry to public quay in Tahiti
JULY 3rd - Rainbow Warrior departs Papeete for Moruroa
JULY 4th - Greenpeace welcomes call by Mitterand for end to nuclear arms race
JULY 5th - French Warship tails Rainbow Warrior as it near Moruroa
JULY 7th - French Warship turns tail on Rainbow Warrior
JULY 7th - Rainbow Warrior Launches Appeal to President Chirac on eve of Arrival at Muroroa Test Site
JULY 8th - Veteran Greenpeace Vessel Vega joins Rainbow Warrior for Nuclear Test Site Protest
JULY 9th - Rainbow Warrior and Greenpeace inflatables enter French Moruroa Test Site
JULY 9th - French Commandos use tear gas to storm Rainbow Warrior.
JULY 10th - Rainbow Warrior released but damaged.
JULY 10th - Greenpeace inflatable still at large in test site. Rainbow Warrior being towed away under duress
JULY 10th - Greenpeace inflatable remains undetected near test site as Rainbow Warrior meets other protest yachts
JULY 11th - Rainbow Warrior sails for Tahiti for Bastille day; other vessels continue to monitor test site
JULY 13th - Greenpeace vessel S.V. Vega harassed by military helicopter.
JULY 14th - Greenpeace protestors on stilts disrupt French ambassador's Bastille Day party.
JULY 14th - France testing new nuclear weapons- Australia must upgrade protest.
JULY 14th - Open letter to commander French Pacific Forces condemning treatment of Rainbow Warrior and crew.
JULY 17th - Rainbow Warrior sails to Fiji to prepare flotilla
JULY 20th - MV Greenpeace to join test protest as pressure on France grows.
JULY 22nd - Mc Taggert and Greenpeace team to return to Vega.
JULY 22nd - L'equipe de McTaggart et Greenpeace retour sur la Vega.
JULY 26th - Communique de Presse. Essais nucleaires:Greenpeace et Chirac devant le Conseil d'etat.
JULY 26th - Nuclear Tests; Greenpeace to take Chirac to France's supreme court- Press conference in Paris on Thursday.
JULY 28th - Take your French Testing protest on Holiday: Greenpeace asks European Tourists.
JULY 28th - Rainbow Warrior arrives in Fiji to appeal for increased pressure on President Chirac as testing approaches
JULY 31st - Greenpeace says Conference on Disarmament last chance for nuclear test ban
AUGUST 1st - Scientists call for study of environmental impacts of french nuclear testing before resumption
AUGUST 2nd - Le Parisien opinion poll.
AUGUST 6th - From Hiroshima to Mururoa: Greenpeace calls for the end of the nuclear age
AUGUST 8th - Greenpeace hails New Zealand Decision to take France to the World Court over Nuclear Testing
AUGUST 9th - Greenpeace calls on nations to mark 50th anniversary of Nagasaki bombing by ending nuclear testing and plutonium production
AUGUST 14th - Update from the South Pacific
AUGUST 18th - Greenpeace calls for European protest flotilla to Paris
AUGUST 18th - The ANC strongly condemns the resumption of nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean
AUGUST 19th - Pacific Protest Flotilla - the ships so far.
AUGUST 21st - Greenpeace applauds New Zealand court case against France.
AUGUST 23rd - Protest at French testing hots up as Rainbow Warrior arrives in Tahiti.
AUGUST 27th - Greenpeace vessels converge for protest at Moruroa.
AUGUST 29th - Jaques Chirac ignores 3 million signatures against French Testing: Injunction against Greenpeace protest ship.
AUGUST 30th - French police ban entire Greenpeace flotilla from Paris.
AUGUST 30th - Greenpeace reconnaisance flight spots test rig in Moruroa.
AUGUST 31st - US Congressmen and Tahitian Leaders join the Rainbow Warrior in protest at Moruroa.
SEPTEMBER 1ST - French police block Greenpeace delivery of petitions to Chirac.
SEPTEMBER 1ST - Greenpeace sends 10 small boats into 12-mile exclusion zone as French prepare to carry out first nuclear test Mururoa
SEPTEMBER 1ST - Greenpeace divers get under test monitoring platform to stop french nuclear test.
SEPTEMBER 1ST - France siezes second Greenpeace vessel, Divers arrested, Rainbow Warrior communications equipment smashed
SEPTEMBER 2ND - Twenty two Greenpeace activists released by French in Tahiti
SEPTEMBER 2ND - Free the Rainbow warrior call by Greenpeace.
SEPTEMBER 3RD - Greenpeace calls for peaceful protests in response to French nuclear test.
SEPTEMBER 3RD - 15 crew and 2 ships still detained by French authorities - Greenpeace call for their immediate release.
SEPTEMBER 4th - Letters of protest at detention of Greenpeace ships from Jonathan Willis and the Mv Kaunitoni
SEPTEMBER 4th - THE WASHINGTON POST: OUTLOOK SECTION, COMMENTARY AND OPINION - September 4, 1995 - "ARE THE FRENCH HEADED FOR A MELTDOWN?..."
SEPTEMBER 4th - Transcript Radio New Zealand National Radio "Morning Report", 4 September.Account of taking of Mv Greenpeace (with pictures).
SEPTEMBER 4th - Two inflatables carrying Greenpeace activists have entered Moruroa lagoon.
SEPTEMBER 4th - Jacques Cousteau resigns in protest at Chirac's testing plans.
SEPTEMBER 5th - President Chirac's televised speech will increase opposition to nuclear test; Greenpeace.
SEPTEMBER 5th - Chirac's Nuclear Test an Insult to the World.
SEPTEMBER 6th - Euratom commissioners demand stop to French nuclear tests.
SEPTEMBER 7th - Greenpeace calls again for non-violence in protests against French nuclear testing.
SEPTEMBER 8th - Chirac must abide by EU decision and stop nuclear tests: Greenpeace.
SEPTEMBER 9th - Nuclear test eye witnesses flown off Moruroa; to be deported.
SEPTEMBER 9th - International Parliamentarians protest nuclear testing at Moruroa.
SEPTEMBER 11th - European Environment Commissioner urges France stop its nuclear tests until it can prove the tests are safe.
SEPTEMBER 19th - Greenpeace activists attempts to occupy drilling rig at French Test site on Fangataufa atoll, most probable site of second nuclear test.
SEPTEMBER 19th - Background briefing document on Fangataufa
SEPTEMBER 21st - Young New Zealanders enter French exclusion zone on Surf Ski.
SEPTEMBER 26th - British Government " acting illegally " by ignoring tests.
SEPTEMBER 26th - Polynesians aboard Greenpeace ship Vega enter exclusion zone.
SEPTEMBER 28th - Greenpeace reaffirns position on French goods boycott.
SEPTEMBER 29th - Political success for Greenpeace at French supreme court.

October

OCTOBER 1st - Greenpeace boat boarded bty French in international waters
OCTOBER 2nd - Greenpeace invades French ambassador's London residence in protest against 2nd nuclear test.
OCTOBER 2nd - Greenpeace calls on European states to put France in dock over nuclear test.
OCTOBER 3rd- European Commission must act now on French tests or face court action.
OCTOBER 9th- European Commission report confirms French breach of EURATOM Treaty.
OCTOBER 9th- Copy of leaked European Commission report
OCTOBER 11th- European Commission: Lapdog of the French?
OCTOBER 12th - French Commandos charge Yachts in Peaceful Sail-by in Papeete Harbour (with pictures)
OCTOBER 12th - Press Release from the Peace Flotilla
OCTOBER 25th - France boards Greenpeace protest vessel in Italian territorial waters
OCTOBER 28th - France conducts third nuclear test
OCTOBER 28th - 7 million signature petition against French Nuclear testing delivered.
OCTOBER 29th - Greenpeace uk action at Chequers greets Chirac.
OCTOBER 30th - Greenpeace today took opposition to French testing to the rooftops. Seven protesters climbed onto the roof of the French Ambassador's residence in Wellingtont

December

January 1996

March 1996