Christopher Weeramantry
(1926-)

Sri Lankan Supreme Court Justice,
International Criminal Court Judge

2006 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education
2007 Right Livelihood Award Winner
World Future Council

birthdate: November 17
birthplace:
Colombo, Sri Lanka

QUOTES

The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world.

But elimination will only happen if all countries — nuclear and non-nuclear states — genuinely work towards this result. Nuclear states must abolish their arsenals, as was indicated by the unanimous opinion of the international Court of Justice, the highest international tribunal. The five nuclear states seem to expect others to refrain from obtaining bombs while at the same time maintaining their own caches of deadly weapons.

The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.

 

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