What's New 【Event History】 Mayors for Peace Newsletter No.27(PDF file) 　　　(July 9, 2008) CANT project Online Petition(July.7, 2008) Please join our petition drive through online or petition form. 40 new cities join Mayors for Peace (June.30, 2008) On June 30, 2008, 40 new cities joined Mayors for Peace. We now have 2,317member cities from 130 countries and regions. Cities Appeal in support of the ”Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol”(June. 17, 2008) 　　　Please participate in the petition drive associated with this project. Hiroshima Nagasaki Protocol (May. 4, 2008) The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol was announced at the NPT（Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) Review Conference Preparatory Committee Meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland. 7th Executive Conference of Mayors for Peace 　 (Nov. 30, 2007) The 7th Executive Conference of Mayors for Peace took place in Florence, Italy. At the Conference, we approved a new phase of our 2020 Vision Campaign. Mayors for Peace launched an "Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons" to promote its "2020 Vision," a program to eliminate all nuclear weapons by the year 2020, the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We are promoting Cities Are Not Targets, a concrete, global project of the Good Faith Challenge, a new aspect of our 2020 Vision Campaign for the abolition of nuclear weapons. We trust we can count on your continued cooperation and support. Read more… >>> Please tell the nuclear powers that Cities Are Not Targets!   (Mar. 9, 2007) Please participate in the petition drive associated with this project. Mayors for Peace will deliver your message to the nuclear-weapon states and to the United Nations. Letters from the City of Hiroshima demanding the de-targeting and non-targeting of cities.   (Feb. 22, 2007) We ask that all members of Mayors for Peace and all cities around the world write your own letters to your national governments and the governments of the nuclear-armed nations reiterating that "Cities Are Not Targets". 2020 Vision Campaign International Campaign Secretariat Opened in Ieper, Belgium To better promote the 2020 Vision Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons, Mayors for Peace, with assistance from the government of Ieper, Belgium, opened a new International Secretariat on July 2006. Topics Attending the 2008 NPT Preparatory Committee Representatives, including mayors, from Mayors for Peace member cities comprised the Mayoral Delegation, and attended the Preparatory Committee for the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) Review Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland. President Akiba delivered a speech at the NGO session and also announced the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol. Mayors for Peace supports AFS Petition for a Global Expansion of Educational Youth Exchange Programs AFS is sponsoring a major, high profile undertaking for its 60th anniversary year that will be a Petition Drive to gather signatures in supports of a global expansion of youth exchange programs. Please join this petition drive to promote peace through intercultural understanding. Mayor Akiba and Mayors for Peace Win the 2007 Nuclear - Free Future Award(Oct.23, 2007) The Franza-Moll Foundaton has given Mayor Akiba and Mayors for Peace its 2007 Nuclear - Free Future Award in　recognition of its achievements in arousing international　public demand for the abolition of nuclear weapons and lasting　world peace through the 2020 Vision and other global peace promotion activities. Mayors for Peace Wins the IPB Sean MacBride Award The international peace NGO IPB has given Mayors for Peace its Sean MacBride Peace Prize in recognition of its achievements in arousing international public demand for the abolition of nuclear weapons and lasting world peace through the 2020 Vision (Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons) and other global peace promotion activities.  ICJ 10th Anniversary Commemorative Events On the occasion of 10th anniversary of the ICJ advisory opinion stating “… the threat or use of nuclear weapons would generally be contrary to the rules of international law”, we held commemorative meetings in The Hague (The Netherlands) and Brussels (Belgium) in July 2006. The new campaign, the Good Faith Challenge, Phase II of our 2020 Vision Campaign, launched at these occasions.    Mayoral Delegation of Mayors for Peace participated in the NPT Review Conference A mayoral delegation organized by Mayors for Peace participated in the Review Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May 2005. This mayoral delegation attended Peace March and Rally, visited national missions, attended conference sessions, held its own conference, and called for the abolition of nuclear weapons at every possible opportunity.