Dr. Thomas Mathew, the first 2020 Vision Campaigner for Mayors for Peace in India has been invited to attend the last Preparatory Committee prior to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference 2015 which is to be held from 28th April 2014 to 9th May 2014 at the United Nations Head Office in New York. This meeting is the third of three sessions that will be held prior to the 2015 Review Conference. The purpose of the Preparatory Committee is to prepare for the Review Conference in terms of assessing the implementation of each article of the NPT and facilitating discussion among States with a view to making recommendations to the Review Conference. He’ll be attending the Preparatory Committee along with Hiroshima, Nagasaki Mayors, Ambassadors and the UN officials. He has been also asked for to speak in various sessions and side events at the UN.
Before the opening ceremony of the 2015 NPT Preparatory Committee, the Mayors for Peace delegation will be offering flowers at the World Trade Center site at 16:00 on April 27.
Mayors for Peace is the leading international organization devoted to protecting cities from the scourge of war and mass destruction. The 2020 Vision Campaign is the primary campaigning body of Mayors for Peace. It arose out of the “Emergency campaign to ban nuclear weapons” launched by Mayors for Peace in 2003, and its focus is nuclear disarmament, although the Mayors for Peace Covenant gives the organization a mandate to work on a broad range of issues from the elimination of poverty to the protection of the environment. The 2020 Vision Campaign, with its ambitious goal of abolishing nuclear weapons by 2020, provides a focal point for Mayors for Peace and represents a high level of sustained activism.
