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GREENPEACE FLIES ANTI-NUCLEAR BALLOON OVER TAJ MAHAL
AGRA (India), 12 June 1998 -- Shortly after
sunrise this morning Greenpeace activists, from
India, Austria, Belgium, New Zealand and the US launched an earth-shaped hot-air balloon
over the Taj Mahal to protests against nuclear weapons. The balloon carried banners reading "No nuclear bombs! Here, there,
anywhere" and "Nuclear disarmament now!", as well as flags from India,Pakistan and the
nuclear weapons states. 
UN MUST ESTABLISH NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN TO AVERT
NUCLEAR CRISIS IN ASIA
Amsterdam, 31 May 1998 -- Greenpeace calls for United
Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to establish a dialogue
between India and Pakistan and to urge all the nuclear-weapons states
to urgently disarm, following two further nuclear bomb tests by
Pakistan yesterday.
GREENPEACE: "PAKISTAN TESTS SHOW URGENT NEED FOR GLOBAL NUCLEAR
DISARMAMENT"
Amsterdam, 28 May 1998 -- Greenpeace condemns Pakistan's tests and
says that Pakistan's nuclear tests shows the urgent need for the
international community to agree that nuclear weapons must be
eliminated once and for all.
INDIA RESUMES NUCLEAR TESTING IN DEFIANCE OF THE COMPREHENSIVE
TEST BAN TREATY (CTBT)
Amsterdam / London 13 May 1998 -- In a letter sent today to the Indian
Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpaayee, Greenpeace International
Executive Director Thilo Bode said India "must act urgently to repair
the damage its testing programme has done this week".
 On the 11th May 1998, India conducted three nuclear tests, its first nuclear tests since 1974. By carrying out these tests India has defied the international community in its 30 year resolve to end nuclear testing forever. India must receive a clear message from the international community that any nuclear testing is unacceptable and that no further tests would be tolerated. India carried out two further tests on 13th May. |