In early November, Mr. Stefan Schostok, the Mayors for Peace Vice-President and new Lord Mayor of Hannover (Germany) raised the voice of the German Mayors for Peace on the occasion of the negotiations among major German political parties on creating a new German government.
More than 110 colleagues from all over Germany from small to large cities asked by individually signing a respective letter that the government be commit to (1) a nuclear-weapon free world, (2) the withdrawal of nuclear weapons from Germany and to (3) oppose the life extension program of the B-61 bombs based in Germany.
This initiative became possible due to two 2020 Vision Campaigners in Germany, Xanthe Hall and Wolfgang Schlupp-Hauck, and the very fruitful collaboration with German civil society campaign called “atomwaffenfrei.jetzt” (no-nukes.now).
This has been accompanied by an eye-catching presence of the theme “nuclear weapons in Germany” and their intended life extension / modernization in the media (link below) and is certainly due to hard lobbying towards the press and politicians of all the involved parties.
The work is not done with issuing these letters yet. This time it looks as if it will be difficult to get these aims into the new governments’ working papers. Thus the campaign and the Mayors have to continue to push more. And that is what Mayors for Peace Germany aims to do! This process will continue until early December.
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Related article in the German press :
>“Der Spiegel” about the life extension program of the US B61 bombs (in German)
Press release from German Mayors for peace (in German):
>“Burgermeister fordern aktive Schritte fur atomwaffenfreies Deutschland”