Junsei Terasawa, Buddhist monk of Nipponzan Myohoji & Kazakh disciple
Peace Prayer Meeting
for Almaty negotiation between Iran and the P5+1 on nuclear issue
Eternal Fire Memorial, 28 Panfilovs Park, Almaty
at 12:30 on 25th February 2013 organized by the Kushan Peace Promotion
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Kushan Peace Promotion, represented by 5 Buddhist monks from Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine, called for open public Peace Prayer Meeting at Eternal Fire Memorial, 28 Panfilovs Park, Almaty, Kazakhstan, at 12:30 on 25th February.
This Peace Prayer Meeting is aimed for meaningful break-through out of the Almaty negotiations between Iran and the P5+1. Those past negotiations failed without any progress, increasingly becoming confrontational, with Israel`s open readiness of pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities any moment.
Kushan Peace Promotion endorses the role of Kazakhstan, which hosts this significant opportunity as an unique Central Asian strategic country, which renounced its own nuclear arsenal and promotes global nuclear disarmament and dialogue for future global peace.
Kushan Peace Promotion regards present moment critical for the future of whole humanity: whether the world will enter into unabated nuclear proliferation, or can choose collective concrete measures towards realizing nuclear-free world. The issue is about everyone`s future, therefore, cannot be dealt only with the closed-door meetings between selected negotiators. Every citizen of the world should have a right to decide his own future and demand for a nuclear-free world.
Kushan Peace Promotion represents the ordinary citizen`s wish for peace.
In this occasion, we appeal President Obama that he should fulfill his famous pledge as 1st US President for the nuclear-free world; he was awarded with the Noble Peace Award by his famous pledge in Prague. Therefore, he should start immediately engaging with all nuclear weapon states to open the process of global nuclear disarmament.
We also appeal Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who repeatedly stated that nuclear weapons are incompatible with Islam and are sin against humanity, that he may initiate all Muslim countries to engage with all nuclear weapon states to support the process of global nuclear disarmament.
We appeal President Nazarbaev of Kazakhstan to initiate and facilitate hosting the Global Nuclear Disarmament Conference in Astana in 2013, where President Obama and supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be invited.
Ven. Terasawa Junsei,
initiator of the Peace Prayer Meeting,
leader of the Buddhist delegation of Kushan Peace Promotion
email: rev.terasava15@gmail.com
www.kushanpeacepromotion.com