60th Annual Commemoration of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On the 23 May 2005 a written declaration was submitted to the European Parliament by 5 MEPs (Gisela Kallenbach, Jill Evans, Caroline Lucas, Tobias Pflueger, Jean-Luc Dehaene and Ana Gomes) on the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the June edition of Around Europe QCEA asked our readers to write to their MEPs and ask them to sign it.
In order for the declaration to be sent to the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in time for the commemorations in early August it was redrafted as an appeal. This appeal has been signed by most of the political groups in the European Parliament as well as by an additional 80 individual MEPs.
This appeal was taken by Gisela Kallenbach MEP to the 6th Annual Conference of 'Mayors for Peace' and the 60th Annual Commemoration of the Bombing of Hiroshima.
QCEA would like to thank all those who took the time to respond to our request and wrote to their MEPs asking them to sign the Declaration.
