NUCLEAR FREE

The Government needs to maintain and extend New Zealand's nuclear free policy in areas of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.

Political Parties should commit to:
 

1. Maintaining New Zealand's nuclear free status. 2. Advocating internationally, within the Conference on Disarmament, for a comprehensive treaty banning all plutonium separation and use for any purpose. 3. Working with the South Pacific Forum nations to develop a new protocol to the South Pacific Regional Environment Protocol banning the transit of shipments of plutonium, mixed oxide (MOX) fuels and high level radioactive wastes through the region. 4. Legislating to exclude all nuclear shipments from waters under New Zealand jurisdiction. 5. Advocating internationally, within the Conference on Disarmament, a Nuclear Weapons Free Convention that reduces all nuclear arsenals to zero within a specified time.

For further information contact: Greenpeace