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World leaders get church backing on nuclear disarmament. Four umbrella organisations of churches have sent a joint statement to worldleaders American President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the highest representatives of NATO and EU.
Last week also at the Vatican a meeting was held on nuclear arms.

In a letter signed by World Council of Churches, Samuel Kobia, the Conference of European Churches, Colin Williams, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, Michael Kinnamon, and the Canadian Council of Churches, Karen Hamilton, the churchleaders say they mean to encourage the world leaders addressed in it to pursue the new course of a nuclear free world.

After the Vatican meeting Pax Christi International issued a statement in which they also refer to the letters written by the ecumenical and protestant churches on the issue of nuclear disarmament.

The letter's signatories acknowledge a number of recent positive developments in the field of nuclear disarmament which had as its protagonists the United States, Russia, NATO and Germany. They also point out upcoming opportunities like the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) follow-on agreement, the development of NATO's new Strategic Concept, and the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference.