Sir, Our world faces many challenges including oppressive poverty, climate change, violent extremism and emerging national rivalry. Addressing these challenges requires strong relationships across nations, founded on mutual co-operation, trust and shared prosperity. Security policies based on the threat of the use of nuclear weapons are immoral and ultimately self-defeating.
We must move beyond the division of our world into nuclear and non-nuclear weapons states and ensure that all states make good their commitment to negotiations on the universal, legally verifiable and enforceable elimination of nuclear weapons. We call on all nuclear weapon states to join in this endeavour. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference begins next month, and we urge nuclear weapons states, and the international community, to develop a robust plan of action that will rid the world of nuclear weapons.
Sayed Yousif Al-Khoei OBE, executive director, Al-Khoei Foundation
Anil Bhanot, director, Hindu Council UK
The Rt Revd John Chalmers, moderator, the Church of Scotland General Assembly
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Nemu Chandaria OBE, Institute of Jainology ~ for and on behalf of ‘One Jain’
Gill Dascombe, vice-president, the Methodist Conference
Malcolm Deboo, president, Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe
The Revd Dr Chris Ellis, president, the Baptist Union of Great Britain
John Ellis, moderator, the United Reformed Church
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Archbishop Gregorios, Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
Robert Harrap, general director, Soka Gakkai International (SGI)-UK
The Revd Kenneth G. Howcroft, president, the Methodist Conference
Sanjay Jagatia, director/secretary general, Hindu Council UK
The Most Revd Malcolm McMahon, Archbishop of Liverpool
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Satya Minhas, chairperson, Hindu Council UK
Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, Office of Imams for Inter Faith Cooperation
The Most Revd Dr Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales
The Revd Gyoro Nagase, Nipponzan Myohoji London Peace Pagoda
Paul Parker, recording clerk, Quakers in Britain
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Dr Narayan Rao, trustee, Hindu Council UK and Chairman, Shri Venlateswara (Balaji) Temple
Maulana Shahid Raza OBE, founder trustee, British Muslim Forum
Jehangir Sarosh OBE, executive director, Religions for Peace
Ven B. Seelawimala, head priest, London Buddhist Vihara
Lord Indarjit Singh of Wimbledon, director, Network of Sikh Organisations
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Bhai Sahib, Mohinder Singh OBE, chairman, Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha (GNNSJ)
Michael Stygal, president, The Pagan Federation
Bharti Taylor, executive director, The Hindu Forum of Europe