All-India National Convention for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Interim Charter

This National Convention for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace resolutely opposes nuclear weapons in India, South Asia and globally. Nuclear weapons are evil and immoral. They divert resources from real needs, promote insecurity, are genocidal, undermine democracy, endanger the environment and future generations. This Convention unequivocally condemns India’s entry into the Nuclear Weapons Club in 1998, which represents a betrayal of its own past positions. This Convention resolves to bring together large numbers of groups, organizations and individuals on a common platform with the following Agenda. To carry forward this Agenda we constitute ourselves into a National Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace.

To halt and roll back India's nuclear weapons-related preparations and activity we demand the following measures to be implemented immediately:

• No assembly of nuclear weapons, no induction and deployment of nuclear weapons. No acquisition and development of nuclear weapon-specific delivery systems.
• Advanced research into nuclear weapons to be halted. No to explosive testing, sub-critical tests, or production or acquisition of weapons-usable fissile material tritium.
• Complete transparency and independent monitoring of governmental activity in this regard and full public accountability on nuclear development and energy matters.
• Proper compensation and reparation to all victims and their families for damages to health and local environment by activities related to all aspects (from uranium mining to reactor operation to waste disposal) of the nuclear fuel cycle. Priority must be given to remedial measures for all environmental damage.

• We demand similar immediate measures of nuclear restraint and roll back from Pakistan. Given the tensions and potential for war in West Asia, we demand complete dismantling of Israel's nuclear weapons regime.
• All the N-5 or Nuclear Weapons States (USA, Russia, Britain, France and China,) must immediately de-alert their nuclear weapons systems, make a pledge of No First Use and stop all research into advanced nuclear weapons. No to all efforts to construct an anti-ballistic missile system or missile shield.
• We demand the rapid, systematic, and continuous reduction by the N-5 of their nuclear weapons down to zero level through unilateral, bilateral, and multilateral commitments and pacts.
• We demand that the Indian Government go back to being among the pacesetters in matters of global nuclear disarmament.

We want a nuclear weapons free world and we support all genuine efforts in pursuit of this goal. In this effort we commit ourselves to the global nuclear disarmament movement and will strive to strengthen international solidarity in this endeavour.

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