News from Finland:

In Helsinki, Finland, about 500 people gathered to commemorate Hiroshima in
the evening of the 6th of August in a park in  centre of the down. Two
speakers, MEP Heidi Hautala and chair Kalevi Suomela,  told about the
dangers that nuclear weapons based security creates and promoted the
Abolition 2000 campaign. We lighted about 400 lanterns on the water. We
collected signatures to the international Abolition 2000 appeal.
Participants and passers-by signed. We got 702 signatures. It maybe doesn t
sound as a big figure but in Helsinki in two hours it is a lot. There were
smaller events in other locations in Finland, too. I m sure the Abolition
2000 campaign is more familiar for the Finnish people than it was before
yesterday. We continue in collecting signatures and in inviting other
Finnish NGOs to join the campaign.

Malla Kantola
secretary general

Committee of 100
Peace Station, Veturitori 3
Fin-00520 Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358-9-141336
Fax: +358-9-147297
Email: mkantola@kaapeli.fi
		
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