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Press releases Archive |
LAST UPDATE
July 17, 2005
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| July 15, 2005 |
Northeast Asian Citizens Join Forces at UN |
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PRESS CONFERENCE
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Monday, July 18, 2005 from 16:00 to 17:00
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UN Church Center (777 United Nations Plaza), 8th
Floor |
| Speakers: |
Yoshioka Tatsuya (Director, Peace Boat, Japan)
Shim Young Hee (President, Women Making Peace, South Korea)
Enkhsaikhan J. (Former Mongolian Ambassador to UN, Mongolian Institute for Strategic
Studies)
Jeannie Manipon (Asia Peace Alliance) |
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NEW YORK - July 14, 2005 More than 40
NGO leaders from Northeast Asia will present a united regional voice at the Global
Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) Conference, at UNHQ July
19-21. Their governments may disagree, but this Northeast Asia civil society network
transcends decade-long tensions and offers a fresh and united voice on security
issues in this turbulent region. GPPAC is a worldwide civil society project to
call for a policy shift in support of prevention of violent conflict and to submit
recommendations to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Among fifteen regional processes of GPPAC, Northeast Asian NGOs are seeking to
create a regional peace mechanism through citizens' collaboration and solidarity,
in order to bring an end to the ongoing spiral of tension at the state level,
namely North Korea, the Taiwan Strait, and Japan-China relations.
Tatsuya Yoshioka, Regional Secretariat of GPPAC NE Asia and Director of Tokyo-based
Peace Boat, says "it is high time for the world to develop nonviolent forms of
conflict prevention based on innovate and legally binding norms such as Article
9 of Japan's "peace" constitution."
The NGO delegation from Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Far East Russia
and Mongolia are organizing a series of workshops to present creative CSO-initiated
solutions to pressing regional security issues:
- Six-Party Talks over Korean peninsula nuclear crisis
- Tension across Taiwan Strait
- Remilitarization of Japan and revision of its constitution (Article 9 war
renunciation clause)
- Possible nuclear-weapon-free zone, Peace treaty and new Regional Organization
in East Asia.
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| Contacts: Peace Boat
New York (Tel. 1-212-687-7214) |
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