Translation of "Arms Race and Nuclear Weapons Research Project " (English → French) :

They point out that whereas Canada, although with the capacity to build nuclear weapons, has rejected that option and in so doing has recognized the military futility of nuclear weapons; and whereas respected international generals and admirals have declared that the dangers of proliferation, terrorism and a new arms race render the abolition of nuclear weapons necessary, they pray and request that parliament ...[+++]support the goal of abolition of nuclear weapons on our earth by Canada advocating the immediate de-alerting of all nuclear devices and that Canada join the nations of the New Agenda Coalition.

2. Reminds the Council and the Member States that nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation are substantively interrelated and mutually reinforcing; takes the view that, for the survival and enforcement of the NPT, a road map with a schedule of nuclear disarmament steps and deadlines is needed; urges the nuclear-weapon states to live up to their commitment under Article 6 of the NPT to ‘pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms ...[+++] race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament’; stresses that the nuclear weapon states have not sufficiently lived up to this commitment although it is vital for the continued relevance of the whole non-proliferation system; calls for strict adherence to the nuclear-testing moratorium pending the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT);

The first petition is signed by residents of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland who point out that the U.S. missile defence would incite a new nuclear arms race and put weapons in space.

Indeed—and it was noted by the earlier witnesses—there has been some significant progress in the Conference on Disarmament, a 65-nation body in which all the states that are considered to have nuclear weapons are represented, but it has not been able to officially agree on a work plan with these four areas that were enumerated: the fissile material cut-off treaty, which is just a treaty to stop the production of the stuff with which one makes nuclear weapons; the nuclear disarmament theme; the prevention of an arms race ...[+++] in outer space; and so-called negative security assurances, which are simply the assurances given to non-nuclear-weapons states by nuclear weapons states that they will not be subject to the use or the threat of use of nuclear weapons.