Annex 1 - Written Declaration on support for the Global Zero Action Plan for the phased and verified elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide (written declaration)

Written declaration No 0026/2012, under Rule 123 of Parliament's Rules of Procedure, by Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa, Reinhard Bütikofer, Tarja Cronberg, Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris and Janusz Władysław Zemke on support for the Global Zero Action Plan for the phased and verified elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide1 (minutes of 4.2.2013, item 8), signed by 389 Members:

Text of the written declaration:

1. Nuclear weapons present unacceptable financial costs and security risks, including proliferation and nuclear terrorism;

2. There is significant public and political support for the Global Zero Action Plan, a comprehensive policy framework for the phased and verified elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide by 2030;

3. The next step in that plan is the reduction of US and Russian arsenals to a total of 1000 nuclear weapons each and the removal of both countries’ tactical nuclear weapons from the European continent, thereby paving the way for multilateral nuclear arms negotiations on the phased elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide, a comprehensive verification and enforcement regime and strengthened safeguards for the nuclear fuel cycle;

4. The Member States are called upon to support and take steps to advance the Global Zero Action Plan;

5. The US and Russian Governments are encouraged to reduce their arsenals to a total of 1000 nuclear weapons each and to remove their tactical nuclear weapons from the European continent;

6. All nuclear weapons countries are called upon to participate in multilateral negotiations on the phased and verified elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide and the establishment of a verification system that includes intrusive, unrestricted inspections;

7. This declaration, together with the names of the signatories, is forwarded to the Council, the Commission and the governments and parliaments of the Member States and to the United States, Russia and all nuclear weapons countries.

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1 In accordance with Rule 123(4) and (5) of Parliament's Rules of Procedure, when the declaration is signed by a majority of Parliament's component Members, it shall be published in the minutes with the names of its signatories and forwarded to the addressees, without however binding Parliament.

List of signatories

Gabriele Albertini, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Sonia Alfano, François Alfonsi, Alexander Alvaro, Luís Paulo Alves, Amelia Andersdotter, Martina Anderson, Josefa Andrés Barea, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Roberta Angelilli, Antonello Antinoro, Elena Oana Antonescu, Alfredo Antoniozzi, Pablo Arias Echeverría, Pino Arlacchi, Kriton Arsenis, Margrete Auken, Inés Ayala Sender, Liam Aylward, Zoltán Bagó, Zigmantas Balčytis, Raffaele Baldassarre, Francesca Balzani, Erik Bánki, Elena Băsescu, Edit Bauer, Catherine Bearder, Heinz K. Becker, Sandrine Bélier, Malika Benarab-Attou, Sergio Berlato, Jean-Paul Besset, Jean-Jacob Bicep, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Lothar Bisky, Mara Bizzotto, Sebastian Valentin Bodu, Lajos Bokros, Piotr Borys, Victor Boştinaru, José Bové, Franziska Katharina Brantner, Arkadiusz Tomasz Bratkowski, Frieda Brepoels, Elmar Brok, Zuzana Brzobohatá, Udo Bullmann, Simon Busuttil, Reinhard Bütikofer, Jerzy Buzek, Alain Cadec, Antonio Cancian, Salvatore Caronna, David Casa, Michael Cashman, Carlo Casini, Daniel Caspary, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Nessa Childers, Nikolaos Chountis, Ole Christensen, Nikos Chrysogelos, Minodora Cliveti, Yves Cochet, Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Birgit Collin-Langen, Lara Comi, Marije Cornelissen, Silvia Costa, Emer Costello, Michael Cramer, Jürgen Creutzmann, Tarja Cronberg, Brian Crowley, Joseph Cuschieri, George Sabin Cutaş, Tadeusz Cymański, Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă, Spyros Danellis, Joseph Daul, Mário David, Chris Davies, Francesco De Angelis, Véronique De Keyser, Karima Delli, Anne Delvaux, Albert Deß, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Leonardo Domenici, Leonidas Donskis, Dimitrios Droutsas, Andrew Duff, Isabelle Durant, Martin Ehrenhauser, Bas Eickhout, Ioan Enciu, Frank Engel, Christian Engström, Cornelia Ernst, Ismail Ertug, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Jill Evans, Tanja Fajon, Diogo Feio, João Ferreira, Carlo Fidanza, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Hélène Flautre, Knut Fleckenstein, Pat the Cope Gallagher, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón, Dolores García-Hierro Caraballo, Elisabetta Gardini, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Marietta Giannakou, Sven Giegold, Adam Gierek, Ana Gomes, Kinga Göncz, Luis de Grandes Pascual, Louis Grech, Catherine Grèze, Mathieu Grosch, Zita Gurmai, Mikael Gustafsson, Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto, Gerald Häfner, Fiona Hall, Thomas Händel, Małgorzata Handzlik, Marian Harkin, Rebecca Harms, Satu Hassi, Martin Häusling, Esther Herranz García, Jolanta Emilia Hibner, Jim Higgins, Monika Hohlmeier, Danuta Maria Hübner, Ian Hudghton, Stephen Hughes, Juozas Imbrasas, Iliana Malinova Iotova, Vincenzo Iovine, Carlos José Iturgaiz Angulo, Liisa Jaakonsaari, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Yannick Jadot, Peter Jahr, Danuta Jazłowiecka, Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska, Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio, Eva Joly, Cornelis de Jong, Romana Jordan, Filip Kaczmarek, Jarosław Kalinowski, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Othmar Karas, Ioannis Kasoulides, Martin Kastler, Metin Kazak, Tunne Kelam, Franziska Keller, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Mojca Kleva Kekuš, Wolf Klinz, Jürgen Klute, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Maria Eleni Koppa, Georgios Koumoutsakos, Béla Kovács, Andrey Kovatchev, Jan Kozłowski, Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, Werner Kuhn, Eduard Kukan, Jean Lambert, Vytautas Landsbergis, Giovanni La Via, Patrick Le Hyaric, Jo Leinen, Eva Lichtenberger, Krzysztof Lisek, Barbara Lochbihler, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Sabine Lösing, Isabella Lövin, Sarah Ludford, Petru Constantin Luhan, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ulrike Lunacek, Linda McAvan, Mairead McGuinness, Edward McMillan-Scott, Monica Luisa Macovei, Ramona Nicole Mănescu, Bogdan Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Marian-Jean Marinescu, David Martin, Hans-Peter Martin, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Jiří Maštálka, Barbara Matera, Marisa Matias, Gabriel Mato Adrover, Iosif Matula, Erminia Mazzoni, Nuno Melo, Emilio Menéndez del Valle, Willy Meyer, Louis Michel, Francisco José Millán Mon, Ana Miranda, Alexander Mirsky, Gay Mitchell, Andreas Mölzer, Claude Moraes, Vital Moreira, Claudio Morganti, Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, Paul Murphy, Cristiana Muscardini, Juan Andrés Naranjo Escobar, Norbert Neuser, Katarína Neveďalová, Bill Newton Dunn, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Norica Nicolai, Rareş-Lucian Niculescu, Angelika Niebler, Sławomir Nitras, Raimon Obiols, Jan Olbrycht, Wojciech Michał Olejniczak, Younous Omarjee, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Eva Ortiz Vilella, Csaba Őry, Siiri Oviir, Doris Pack, Rolandas Paksas, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Chrysoula Paliadeli, Antigoni Papadopoulou, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Jaroslav Paška, Aldo Patriciello, Andres Perello Rodriguez, Alojz Peterle, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Gianni Pittella, Pavel Poc, Bernd Posselt, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Konstantinos Poupakis, Vittorio Prodi, Jacek Protasiewicz, Miloslav Ransdorf, Sylvana Rapti, Evelyn Regner, Vladimír Remek, Mitro Repo, Niccolò Rinaldi, Michèle Rivasi, Crescenzio Rivellini, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Oreste Rossi, Dagmar Roth-Behrendt, Libor Rouček, Alfreds Rubiks, Heide Rühle, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Potito Salatto, Nikolaos Salavrakos, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Marie-Thérèse Sanchez-Schmid, Judith Sargentini, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, David-Maria Sassoli, Vilja Savisaar-Toomast, Christel Schaldemose, Carl Schlyter, Olle Schmidt, Birgit Schnieber-Jastram, Helmut Scholz, Elisabeth Schroedter, Werner Schulz, Marco Scurria, Olga Sehnalová, Joanna Senyszyn, Debora Serracchiani, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris, Peter Simon, Brian Simpson, Marek Siwiec, Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska, Alyn Smith, Monika Smolková, Csaba Sógor, Renate Sommer, Søren Bo Søndergaard, Bogusław Sonik, Sophocles Sophocleous, Francisco Sosa Wagner, Alda Sousa, Ewald Stadler, Bart Staes, Peter Šťastný, Georgios Stavrakakis, Jutta Steinruck, Catherine Stihler, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Dimitar Stoyanov, Michèle Striffler, Gianluca Susta, József Szájer, Csanád Szegedi, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Hannu Takkula, Claudiu Ciprian Tănăsescu, Marc Tarabella, Indrek Tarand, Salvatore Tatarella, Rui Tavares, Keith Taylor, Rebecca Taylor, Nuno Teixeira, Alexandra Thein, Eleni Theocharous, Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Patrice Tirolien, Patrizia Toia, László Tőkés, Valdemar Tomaševski, Nils Torvalds, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Helga Trüpel, Rafał Trzaskowski, Ioannis A. Tsoukalas, Claude Turmes, Emilie Turunen, Niki Tzavela, Giommaria Uggias, Vladimir Urutchev, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Ivo Vajgl, Kathleen Van Brempt, Gianni Vattimo, Derek Vaughan, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Bernadette Vergnaud, Sabine Verheyen, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Kristian Vigenin, Justina Vitkauskaite, Axel Voss, Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa, Graham Watson, Manfred Weber, Renate Weber, Anja Weisgerber, Glenis Willmott, Sabine Wils, Iuliu Winkler, Jacek Włosowicz, Janusz Wojciechowski, Anna Záborská, Boris Zala, Pablo Zalba Bidegain, Iva Zanicchi, Andrea Zanoni, Artur Zasada, Tatjana Ždanoka, Joachim Zeller, Janusz Władysław Zemke, Karim Zéribi, Gabriele Zimmer, Inês Cristina Zuber, Milan Zver, Tadeusz Zwiefka.