COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL COORDINATION OF THE “NO TO WAR AND NO TO NATO” COMMITTEE

COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL COORDINATION OF THE  “NO TO WAR AND NO TO NATO” COMMITTEE

We commit ourselves to ensure that Italy signs and ratifies the Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons Treaty, adopted by the United Nations

ICAN, the international coalition of non-governmental organizations honoured with the Nobel Peace Price for 2017, communicates that 243 Italian MPs have signed the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge. By doing so, they undertake to push the Italian government to sign and ratify the Prohibition on Nuclear Arms Treaty adopted by the United Nations on 7 July 2017 [“the Treaty”].

Article 1 of Treaty provides that “Each State Party undertakes never under any circumstances to:

(a) Develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;

(c) Receive the transfer of or control over nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices directly or indirectly;"

Article 4 of the Treaty establishes: “Each State Party that has any nuclear weapons in its territory, possessed or controlled by another State, shall ensure the prompt removal of such weapons”.

The undertaking to push the Italian government to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons consequently entails, for those who signed the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge, the commitment to push for:

·          The US B-61 nuclear bombs to be promptly removed from Italian territory and for no new US nuclear bombs nor any other nuclear arms to be stationed in Italy;

·         Italy’s exit from the group of countries within NATO that, “provide the Alliance with aircrafts fitted out to transport nuclear bombs over which the United States maintains absolute control, and personnel trained to this end”; 

·              Italy’s exit from NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group, the legal basis for which is article 18 of the UN Treaty which permits State Parties to preserve obligations under pre-existing international agreements provided such  obligations are compatible with the Treaty.

We invite every single association and person committed to nuclear disarmament  to contact each of  the 243 MPs*,  and request them to explicitly confirm the commitments stated above (commitments that they have assumed by signing the ICAN  Parliamentary Pledge); and to give  all the support they can to  anyone that responds positively. This goal here is to enable Parliament to pass a resolution for Italy to sign and ratify the Treaty.


* This is the list published on ICAN’s website, of the Italian MPs that have signed the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge.  Their email addresses can be found in the list of MPs and Senators, on the websites of the House of Representatives and the Senate:

Donatella Agostinelli, Roberta Agostini, Giorgio Airaudo, Luisella Albanella, Ferdinando Alberti, Tea Albini, Maria Amato, Ileana Argentin, Tiziano Arlotti, Massimo Artini, Marco Baldassarre, Massimo Enrico Baroni, Giovanni Barozzino, Tatiana Basilio, Sergio Battelli, Lorenzo Becattini, Eleonora Bechis, Silvia Benedetti, Marina Berlinghieri, Paolo Bernini, Massimiliano Bernini, Nicola Bianchi, Stella Bianchi, Fabrizio Bocchino, Antonio Boccuzzi, Lorenza Bonaccorsi, Alfonso Bonafede, Franco Bordo, Luisa Bossa, Chiara Braga, Paola Bragantini, Alessandro Bratti, Giuseppe Brescia, Beatrice Brignone, Marco Brugnerotto, Francesca Businarolo, Mirko Busto, Vanessa Camani, Azzurra Cancelleri, Salvatore Capone, Sabrina Capozzolo, Renzo Carella, Francesco Cariello, Paola Carinelli, Anna Maria Carloni, Elena Carnevali, Mara Carocci, Marco Carra, Ezio Casati, Vincenzo Caso, Laura Castelli, Andrea Cecconi, Susanna Cenni, Massimo Cervellini, Silvia Chimienti, Eleonora Cimbro, Tiziana Ciprini, Giuseppe Civati, Laura  Coccia, Matteo Colaninno, Andrea Colletti, Vega Colonnese, Claudio Cominardi, Miriam Cominelli, Emanuela Corda, Maria Coscia, Celeste Costantino, Roberto Cotti, Paolo Cova, Emanuele Cozzolino, Filippo Crimì, Davide Crippa, Diego Crivellari, Gianni Cuperlo, Angelo D’Agostino, Giuseppe D’Ambrosio, Federico D’Incà, Umberto D’Ottavio, Francesco D’Uva, Marco Da Villa, Fabiana Dadone, Federica Daga, Matteo Dall’Osso, Giuseppe De Cristofaro, Diego De Lorenzis, Loredana De Petris, Massimo Felice De Rosa, Daniele Del Grosso, Michele Dell’Orco, Ivan Della Valle, Alessandro Di Battista, Chiara Di Benedetto, Luigi Di Maio, Manlio Di Stefano, Federica Dieni, Donatella Duranti, Marilena Fabbri, Mattia Fantinati, Daniele Farina, Stefano Fassina, Marco Fedi, Francesco Ferrara, Vittorio Ferraresi, Andrea Ferro, Roberto Fico, Massimo Fiorio, Vincenzo Folino, Cinzia Fontana, Paolo Fontanelli, Filippo Fossati, Riccardo Fraccaro, Nicola Fratoianni, Luca Frusone, Maria Chiara Gadda, Chiara Gagnarli, Filippo Gallinella, Luigi Gallo, Laura  Garavini, Daniela Gasparini, Manuela Ghizzoni, Anna Giacobbe, Dario Ginefra, Silvia Giordano, Giancarlo Giordano, Andrea Giorgis, Maria Luisa Gnecchi, Marta Grande, Gero Grassi, Monica Gregori, Giulia Grillo, Giuseppe Guerini, Antonella Incerti, Florian Kronbichler, Giuseppe L’Abbate, Luigi Lacquaniti, Enzo Lattuca, Fabio Lavagno, Mirella Liuzzi, Roberta Lombardi, Marialucia Lorefice, Loredana Lupo, Patrizia Maestri, Andrea Maestri, Ernesto Magorno, Gianna Malisani, Matteo Mantero, Daniele Marantelli, Giulio Marcon, Raffaella Mariani, Umberto Marroni,,Giovanna Martelli, Maria Marzana, Toni Matarrelli, Davide Mattiello, Alessandro Mazzoli, Gianni Melilla, Marco Miccoli, Salvatore Micillo, Corradino Mineo, Emiliano Minnucci, Margherita Miotto, Antonio Misiani, Michele Mognato, Sara Moretto, Delia Murer, Martina Nardi, Giulia Narduolo, Dalila Nesci, Nicodemo Oliverio, Giovanni Paglia, Erasmo Palazzotto, Annalisa Pannarale, Paolo Parentela, Oreste Pastorelli, Luca Pastorino, Serena Pellegrino, Caterina Pes, Daniele Pesco, Alessia Petraglia, Cosimo Petraroli, Ileana Piazzoni, Giuditta Pini, Michele Piras, Girolamo Pisano, Antonio Placido, Fabio Porta, Ernesto Preziosi, Stefano Quaranta, Lia Quartapelle, Stefano Quintarelli, Michele Ragosta, Roberto Rampi, Ermete Realacci, Franco Ribaudo, Lara Ricciatti, Gianluca Rizzo,  Grazia Rocchi, , Giuseppe Romanini, Paolo Nicolò Romano, Paolo Rossi, Anna Rossomando, Michela Rostan, Carla Ruocco, Giovanna Sanna, Francesco Sanna Giulia Sarti, Mario  Sberna, Emanuele Scagliusi, Gea Schirò, Chiara Scuvera, Samuele Segoni Angelo Senaldi, Marina Sereni, Camilla Sgambato, Carlo Sibilia, Girgis Giorgio Sorial, Maria Edera Spadoni, Arianna Spessotto, Veronica Tentori, Patrizia Terzoni, Marietta Tidei, Angelo Tofalo, Danilo Toninelli, Davide Tripiedi, Mario  Tullo, Tancredi Turco, Gianluca Vacca, Simone Valente, Andrea Vallascas, Franco Vazio, Liliana Ventricelli, Valentina Vezzali, Stefano Vignaroli, Alessio Villarosa, Sandra Zampa, Alessandro Zan, Giorgio Zanin, Pippo Zappulla, Filiberto Zaratti, Diego Zardini, Davide Zoggia, Alberto Zolezzi

European Parliament 

Brando Benifei MEP

Translated by Anoosha Boralessa, 17 November 2017