SNP group aims to dump Trident, Government experts examine ways to block system.
The Scottish government has set up an expert group to investigate
how best to get rid of nuclear weapons, the Sunday Herald can
reveal.
The group, to be chaired by Bruce Crawford MSP, the minister for
parliamentary business, is seen by many as a crucial step towards making
Scotland a nuclear-free nation - and could trigger a confrontation with
Westminster.
The group - which includes religious leaders, academics, activists, a
lawyer and a trade unionist - has been given the task of finding legal,
planning, regulatory and diplomatic ways to block the plan to replace the
Trident nuclear weapons system on the Clyde.
(From: The Sunday Herald)
(More)German Foreign Affairs minister Steinmeier on nuclear disarmament
The following speech at the Munich Security Conference by the German
minister of Foreign Affairs Steinmeier is a clear appeal to put
disarmament again on the NATO agenda and follows his initiative
together with the Norwegian minister at the NATO summit in December.
It is a quite positive sign, but it was a lone voice between the
wolves. The debate is anyway going on inside NATO and it is up to us to
create pressure to support this initiative. Please make sure that in as
much parliaments as possible of NATO countries questions get tabled on
how your government reacts to this intiative.