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CND gathers
Polina Aksamentova
Delegates from across the country
flocked to London's City Hall from
13-14 October for this year's CND
AGM, to update the campaign's
objectives and learn something
new whilst at it.
The usual policy debates  with
very little debate  took their
course in the mornings. (There
were major debates over two
amendments relating to nuclear
power and peace education.)
Scotland
Dr Alan Mackinnon, Scottish CND
chair, spoke just after noon,
describing the year's successes in
Scotland: "It seems to me that if
we can get [nuclear weapons] out
of Scotland, they can be killed as
a whole."
Mackinnon explained that there
are few sites that meet the needs
of a nuclear base  which are a lot
of empty acres near water. Devonport would be one obvious
choice, he said, but it is a city and
considering the dangers "will have
enormous backlash."
On Sunday, Arielle Denis, co-chair of the Mouvement de la
Paix, talked of US "missile
defence", and was asked whether
France would be a party to an
attack on Iran. "Our new government is much friendlier with the
Bush administration," she
answered. "But I can assure you
the public opinion is against it."
The Tory question
Lobbying MPs, including the
Tories, was another major topic.
Jeremy Corbyn MP pointed out
that some Tories question whether
nuclear weapons are an appropriate defence system for Britain.
"We have to consider how we
approach the Tories without sacrificing our position," he said.
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