Jill Evans MEP, Deputy Leader of Plaid Cymru the Party of Wales, will join peace and anti war campaigners from across Europe in London this weekend for the European Social Forum (ESF), which takes place from Friday 15th October until Sunday 17th October and will close with an international demonstration through central London. Jill Evans will be speaking about the threat of the development of new nuclear weapons.

Britain and other nuclear weapons states are researching and developing new nuclear weapons designed to be used in further illegal pre-emptive wars. In Britain, this is believed to be taking place at Aldermaston.

Jill Evans, who represents the whole of Wales in the European Parliament, said:

"Our main focus will be the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York in 2005, and how best to mobilise to put pressure on the conference. It is thirty four years since the treaty was signed in 1970, when the five nuclear powers committed to disarm.

"Next year will also be the sixtieth anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, and this can only strengthen the resolve of organisations such as Mayors for Peace to influence the conference. I have worked closely with the Mayors for Peace, especially the Mayor of Hiroshima, through the Peace Group in the European Parliament."

Jill and the other speakers will look at current developments and the global political context in which they are taking place - an increasingly aggressive US militarism - and discuss campaigning strategies to prevent these developments taking place.

Other speakers in this part of the ESF include:

Arielle Denis (Mouvement de la Paix, France); Bruce Kent (Movement for the Abolition of War, UK); Jenny Jones (Mayors for Peace, UK); Pol D'Huyvetter (For Mother Earth, Belgium).

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