Text Fwd: INDIA TIMES COVERS GN CONFAB CANCELLATION

* Bruce Gagnon blog
Thursday, September 02, 2010
INDIA TIMES COVERS GN CONFAB CANCELLATION

There can be no doubt that India is moving quickly into space. Thus it was a natural for the Global Network to plan to hold our 18th annual space organizing conference in India on October 9-12. Here is an article from the Times of India about that government's decision to not allow the international conference to happen. No doubt the subject was much too "sensitive" for the government to allow. It's sad that in a so-called "democracy" like India organizations must seek permission to hold an international event.

'No seminar on nuclear disarmament'
August 25, 2010

NAGPUR: In an apparent move to curb an 'unwanted' congregation, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) has struck down the application by a city-based activist known for his left leaning to hold a global seminar on nuclear disarmament in city.

The Centre for Cultural Educational, Economics and Social Studies had planned to hold an international seminar on 'Achieving A Nuclear Weapons and Missile Defence Free Asia', from October 9 to 12. The application for clearance was sent in February but on July 27, the MEA wrote back saying the issue of getting a political permit for the seminar had been carefully examined and the ministry did not recommend holding this conference.

The centre's secretary J Narayana Rao who corresponded with the various ministries said it appeared after the interaction with various bureaucrats that he had almost got the approval, until he received final letter of rejection last month.

A senior official in the MEA said it would be difficult to respond about any one case in particular. He added that it was rare to reject an application. Such a decision is taken only when the case appeared problematic. He said the approvals were given on the basis of inputs by various divisions in MEA which handle different countries.

They were held back if the topic was too sensitive topic or persons invited to speak were categorized as risky or there were problems with countries they were coming from. The organiser could write to the MEA asking for reasons for rejection but it was up to the ministry to respond.

Rao wondered how could nuclear disarmament be a sensitive topic. "An academic discussion would hardly have any political ramifications," he said. Rao felt the rejection might be because the seminar was being held to close to the date of US president Barack Obama's visit to India during November. "May be the government did not want to annoy Uncle Sam," he mused.

He added that US wanted to push India into an arms race as it wanted a market for its defence industry.

Interestingly, he also stressed that India need not increase its nuclear stockpile keeping China in mind. Rao said China's nuclear arms were not meant for India but were a defence against the US. "Since China is not going to attack India with nuclear weapons there is no reason for us to enter into an atomic arms race with it," he added.

Text Fwd: INDIAN GOVERNMENT SAYS NO TO GLOBAL NETWORK SPACE CONFAB

A billboard in India touting their expanding space program

* Bruce Gagnon sent on Aug. 2, 2010.
Also in his blog on Aug. 2, 2010

We heard this morning that our October international space organizing conference that was to be held in Nagpur, India will not happen. For some strange undemocratic reason, our Indian hosts had to have the permission of their government in order to hold such an international peace confab. After shuffling the Indian organizers from one government office to another, the word finally came down from the External Affairs Ministry that it could not happen.

There is likely a connection between Obama's planned trip to India next November and them turning down our conference for October. There can be no doubt that the Indian government feared angering the U.S. by allowing such a conference to happen just before Obama's trip. It is no secret that the U.S. has for several years been pushing India to develop a Space Command and to become a junior partner in the Pentagon's growing Star Wars program.

Just a month ago we published our Space Alert! newsletter which had an article by Global Network board member Matt Hoey. The article was called "India Developing Space Weapons" and the opening paragraph read:

Indian military officials have set a target date to deploy an ambitious anti-satellite (ASAT) system, according to a report released in May by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). The report, titled Technology Perspective and Capability Roadmap (TPCR), states that the "development of ASAT for electronic or physical destruction of satellites in both lower earth orbit (LEO) and Geo-synchronous orbits" can be expected by 2015.

After publication of our newsletter Matt put his article up on several international web sites and there was an immediate response from the Indian government which strongly denied that they were pursuing an anti-satellite weapons test. I imagine this sequence of events might have made the Indian government a bit more worried about the potential of our October conference to expose their space weapons development plans even further.

I must ask, what kind of government that calls itself a democracy forces NGO's wanting to hold a peace conference to have to request permission in the first place? That kind of politics sounds more like a totalitarian dictatorship to me.

The U.S. aerospace industry sees the potential of the Indian space market and drools with delight. Despite the fact that India has 300 million people living in poverty, their growing economy represents a big market for the U.S. aerospace industry. And considering that India borders China, who the Pentagon is now militarily surrounding, ensures that the U.S. military sees the Indian continent as one more key outpost in its global military empire.

Sadly, we see that India is now on its way to becoming another military colony of another declining empire. Mahatma Gandhi would be rolling over in his grave if he could see the steps that India is taking today to join the U.S. in the space militarization game.

In it's 18th year of organizing such international space conferences, the Global Network has never had this experience of one particular country essentially blocking us from holding an educational meeting. Alternatively our Indian hosts have decided to go forward and still hold a conference anyway, albeit a national one rather than international. It is good that they plan to keep expanding the consciousness in their nation about the dangerous and provocative plans and consequences of India joining the U.S. Star Wars program.

Luckily the Global Network did hold an international membership meeting in New York City this past May during the UN's NPT Review Conference. So we were able to take advantage of the fact that many of our members were in New York for those events and we could meet and share information with one another.

We will now move ahead and begin work on our annual Keep Space for Peace Week of local actions during the period of October 2-9.

You can see the poster for our 2010 space week here

Text Fwd: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACHIEVING NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MISSILE DEFENCE FREE ASIA, OCTOBER 9-11, 2010, NAGPUR, INDIA

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACHIEVING

NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MISSILE DEFENCE FREE ASIA

OCTOBER 9-11, 2010

NAGPUR, INDIA

CO-SPONSORED BY:

ALL INDIA PEACE & SOLIDARITY ORGANISATION

(MAHARASHTRA STATE COMMITTEE)

CENTRE FOR CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL STUDIES (NAGPUR)

GLOBAL NETWORK AGAINST WEAPONS & NUCLEAR POWER IN SPACE

Since the end of the World War II the west has never allowed Asia to live in peace. For the first time in history the U.S. used nuclear weapons for mass killing in Japan. It never reconciled to the liberation of many countries from the yoke of colonialism and imperialism.

Korean war, Vietnam war, Afghanistan war, Iraq war, attacks on Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, etc were waged by the U.S. Border disputes between India and Pakistan and India and China are the legacy of British colonialism.

The west never allowed democracy to stabilize in Asia. The imperialist countries always encouraged counter revolutionary forces and indulged in mass killing of innocent people. They tried to keep the Asian countries under-developed. The nuclear arms race, heavy spending on conventional arms, and internal clashes among Asian countries is the game of imperialism. The U.S. military bases in various Asian countries is a constant threat to the sovereignty of these countries where ever they are existing.

Talibanism and terrorism in Asia was abetted by the U.S. and it wishes that Asian countries should be engulfed perpetually in conflicts in the interest of it’s Military Industrial Complex. U.S. is now trying to involve Asian countries in militarization of space along with it.

It is high time that the Asian countries should under take an in-depth appraisal of these problems and get out of the influence of imperialism. The diabolical plan of U.S. deploying Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) programmes is to make first-strike strikes on Asian countries especially China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. Missile Defence programme is also closely linked with the weaponisation space.

To have an in-depth discussion on all these issues and to “Achieve a Nuclear Weapons and Missile Defence Free Asia” an International Conference is being organized at Nagpur on October 9-11, 2010 jointly with the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, All India Peace & Solidarity Organisation and the Centre for Cultural, Educational, Economics and Social Studies, Nagpur.

Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, former Naval Chief of India, will inaugurate the conference and delegates from the U.S., UK, Sweden, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Guam and from various states throughout India will be participating in the conference.

PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE

- OCTOBER 9, 2010 3:00 pm Inaugural Function. Followed by a Cultural Programme in the I.M.A Hall, North Ambazhari Road.

- OCTOBER 10 MLA Hostel, Civil Lines

9:00 am to 12:00 am

PLENARY SESSION-I Can Humanity Survive?

Weapons of Mass Destruction, Outcome of NPT Review Committee, Stratcom, Space Domination and Global Control, Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS)

PLENARY SESSION-II Problems of Prospects of Nuclear Disarmament

India, Pakistan and NPT, Conflict between India and Pakistan (including Kashmir issue), Conflict between India and China, Indo-US Nuclear Deal, South Korean, Japanese and North Korean perspectives.

PLENARY SESSION-III The Danger of Missile Defence and Weaponisation of Space in Asia

Space Programme of India, Pakistan and China. Missile Defence programme of India. Drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

LUNCH BREAK 12:00-1:00 pm

Post Lunch Plenary sessions from 1:00-3:00 pm

PLENARY SESSION-IV Asia and Terrorism

Talibanism and war in Afghanistan and the role of NATO

PLENARY SESSION-V Prospects of an Asian Union

Political, Economic and Security advantages.

PLENARY SESSION-VI Militarism and Media

The role of media on Arms race, Wars including pre-emptive wars, Terrorism, promoting a Culture of Peace and non- violence etc..

3:00-4:30 pm

Closing Ceremony and adoption of Nagpur Declaration

- OCTOBER 11 Interaction with Students and Youth by Foreign Delegates

- OCTOBER 12 Visit to Sewagram Ashram where Mahatma Gandhi spent time during the freedom struggle of India. The ashram served as the headquarters of Mahatma Gandhi for six years, from 1934 to 1940. Gandhi built the Sewagram Ashram himself, with the material that was available locally. He lived at the ashram, amidst lush green surroundings, without any facilities of electricity and telephone. (Foreign delegates only)

Prin Haribhav Kedar. Prin.A.S.Ukhalkar. J.Narayana Rao

President, AIPSO. President, CCEESS Director, Global Network

REGISTRATION FORM

REGISTRATION FEE:

- For those who are employed: Rupees. 500/ + Rs.200/if residential accommodation is required. (U.S. $15)

- For members of AIPSO, Rs. 200/+ Rs.200/for accommodation. (U.S. $10)

CCEESS, GN & CNDP

- For Students. Rs. 100/ only. (U.S. $2)

Registration Forms duly filled along with the Registration Fee should be sent to the following address by Reg Post, speed {Post or Courier. The Registration Fee can be in the form of a DD, Cheque (for local people) or cash in the name of CCEESS-Nagpur. (Overseas participants can pay registration upon arrival.)

Send to: J.Narayana Rao, Conference Organizer, F.N0.207, Kailashpati Apts, Kamptee Road, Opp Lal Godowns, Nagpur 440 017, India or email to jnrao1936@rediffmail.com

1. NAME:

2. PROFESSION:

3. ADDRESS:

4. IF A PEACE ACTIVIST MENTION NAME OF THE ORGANISATION:

5. IF A STUDENT, MENTION THE COLLEGE & CLASS:

6. WHETHER ANY PAPER IS SUBMITTED:

(If so it should reach the organizer before August 15, 2010)

7. REGISTRATION FEE PAID: Rs_________. DD/Cheque No__________ Dt________

In the name of CCEESS-Nagpur Or cash.

8. THOSE WHO WANT PARTICIPATE IN ANY OF THE PLENARY SESSIONS PLEASE MENTION THE PLENARY SESSIONS IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE:

9. DO YOU WANT ANY RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION: YES/NO

10. DATE OF ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE WITH THE DETAILS OF TRAIN/AIRPLANE NOs.

Arrival Departure

Date: SIGNATURE:

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet@mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)

Text Fwd: SPACE SECURITY

* Text sent from J. Narayana Rao on Feb. 2, 2010

SPACE SECURITY
By J.Narayana Rao,
General Secretary, All India Peace&Solidarity Organisation,
Maharashtra State Committee, Nagpur, India

HOW SPACE IS USED:We depend on Space for Navigation, Environmental Monitoring, Meteoroligy, Map making, Whether and Climate monitoring, Surveillance etc. All these activities are made through artiificial Satellites. Artificial Satellites are man made objects launched in space. The first artificial satellite Sputnik was put in orbit in space by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.There after more than 1000 satellites have been put in orbit. These are (1) Astronomical satellites for observation of distant planets, galaxies and other objects in Space. (2)Bio-Satellites to Carry living organisms for scientific experiments. (3) Communication Satellites for telecommunications. (4) Navigation Satellites to measure locations. (5) Reconnaisance satellites for military communications. (6) Earth Observation Satellites for environmental monitoring meteoroligy and map making. (7) Whether Satellites for monitoring Weather and Climate. (9) Space Stations for human beings to live in outer Space.

These Satellites will be in orbit in space at three stages in altitude. (1) Low Earth Orbit(LEO) is upto 2000 K.M from the earth. (2) Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) is higher than 2000 KM and below 35,786 Km. (3) Higher Earth Orbit is above 35,786 Km.

THREAT TO SPACE SECURITY: Space Security is threatened by weaponisation of Space, Space Junk and Space Debris.

On 23 March 1983 President Ronald Regan of USA announced the Strategic Defence Initiative programme which has become well known as Star Wars Programme. Subsequently, his successor H.W.Bush changed it as National Missile Defence Programme. Thereafter George W.Bush convrted it as Ballistic Missile Defence. All these programmes are linked with Space Wars whater ever may be the nomenclature.

The plan for US domination of space has been outlined in the US Space Command document Vision For 2020. The salient feature of this document are (1) Dominating Space dimension of Military Operations to protect US interests and investments. (2) Integrating Space forces into war fighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict. (3) The medium of Space is the fourth medium of warfare along with land, sea and air. (4)The emerging synergy of space superiority with land,sea and air superiority will lead to full spectrum domination. (5) Space power is vital element in moving towards the joint vision goal of being persuasive in peace,decisive in war and pre-eminent in any form of conflict. (6)And to counter to the world wide proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

The perception of US to dominate Space and use it for War has invited condemnation from many countires and warned that it will lead to arms race in Space.

TYPE OF SPACE WEAPONS: Space Weapons have not yet become common and popularly known except in military circles. Some of these are (1) Laser Beams. (2) Anti Satellite Weapons. (3) Space based ballistic Missiles. (4) Orbiting Satellites Capable of intercepting and disabling other satellites.(5) Satellites that carry weapons capable of hitting target.

IMPACT OF WEAPONISATION OF SPACE: There will be an Arms Race In Space as it happened with Nuclear Weapons. When USA tested and dropped Atomic Weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,it created an Arms Race of Nuclear Weapons. This will also result in the violation of various UNO Treaties which prohibit deployment of weapons in Space. Space doest belong to any one nation and it belongs to the entire mankind.More and more countries will try to reach Space for Military purposes if weaponisation of space is not prevented.

SPACE JUNK AND SPACE DEBRIS:There are 2300 dead and defunct Satellites in Space.Collision and exploisions of satellites create debris.On Feb 2009 two Satellites Iridium 33 and defunct Cosmost 2251 collided at a height of 470 miles orbiting with a speed of 22000 mph.Pegasus rocket launched in 1994 exploded and created a cloud of some 300,00 fragments bigger than 4 mm.Olympus was hit by a meteor on 11 Aughst 1993.On 24 July 1996 Cerise a French Satellite was hit by fragments of Arian H10 upper stage booster which exploded in 1986.On 29 March 2006 the Russian Express AM II Communication Satellite was struck by an unknown object.In 2007 a Chinese defunct satellite was blasted by a missile (ASAT) at an altitude of 860 Km.It created more that 2300 golf ball size pieces,over 36000 pieces of 1 cm or larger and 1 million peces of 1 mm or lesser size..On 19 Feb 2007 a Russion Briz M Booser stage rocket eploded over Australia.In 1985 an Anti Satillite Test conducted by US destroyed a one tonne satellite orbiting at 625 Km altitude.On 20 Feb 2008 US destroyed a defective spy satellite of their own by a SM-3 missile. In March 2000 a Chinese Long March upper stage exploded in orbit.The oldest debri is the space is the US Satellite Vanguard I launched on 17 March 1968.It worked for 6 years only.Cosmos 1275 of the USSR disappeared on 24 July 1981,only one month after launch.

LOST EQUIPMENT:When the astronauts make space walks and also under takes repairs to the Space wehicles many articles will be lost into the space.A glove was lost by Edward White during the first US Space walk in 1965. It was in orbit for six months orbiting at a speed of 28000 kmph.Astronaut of Gemini 10 Michael lost a Camera near the Space Craft. Near about 200 bags of garbage were thrown out by the Soviet Cosmonauts from the MIR Space Station. Sunita William also lost a Camera during her space walk. Spent Rocket parts, defunct and unused satellites, explodedfragments,paint flakes, slags from solid rocket motors, small needles,nuts and bolts also come under space debris.

HOW MANY DEBRIS IN SPACE:The NASA estimated in 2009 that that the number of large pices of debris over 10 cms are `9,000. Between 1 and 10 cms at 500,000 and smaller that 1 cm exceed tens of millions. Another study made in 1999 relveal that there are some 4 million pouns of spae junk in the Low Earh Orbit. During the last one decfade the estimated objects of over 10 cms in the Lower Earth Orbit have more than doubled from 8500 in 1990 to 19,000 in 2009.Space debris revolve around the globe at speeds of upto 25,000 mph with altitude ranging from hundred to thousands of miles.

SATELLITE PROTECTIVE MEASURES:Damage to the Space Crafts from the Space Debris is prevented by additing a thin layer of metal foil outside the main space craft body. When debris collide with foil with high velocity the debris will be vaporized and the plasma spreads out quickly. By this process, damage to the inner wall of the space craft is protected. Space Crafts powered by Solar Panels are liable to be affected badly because the front portion of the Panel are positioned directly towards the Sun As a result they get punctured by the debris.

UNITED NATIONS SPACE TREATY: The United Nations Organization adopted a treaty in the year 1967 on the Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space including the Moon and Other Cellestial Bodies. Interalia this Treaty confers the right to all Nations to use and explore the Outer Space for the benefit of all peoples irrespective of different economic or scientific developments in accordance with the International Law. Exploration and use of Outer Space should be only for peaceful purposes. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and conduct of military manoeuvres on celestial bodies is forbidden.

KEEP SPACE FOR PEACEFULL PURPOSES: Respecting the UN Treaty on the peaceful use of outer space and to prevent any Nation how powerfull it may be to weaponise Space, lest it results in an arms race in outer space, all countries must take steps to keep Space for peacefull purposes only. In this direction the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space is campaigning world wide, to prevent Space from becoming another battle ground. Russiaa,China and Canada are seeking an international agreement on Preventing an Arms Race in Outer Space(PAROS).But United States of America and Israel are preventing PAROS talks Col. Gen.Vladimir Popovkin of Russia warned in September 2007 that should any country deploy weapons in space,then the laws of armed warfare are such that retaliatory weapons are certain to appear. Former President Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam while speaking on Space Security in Nov 2007 said that the main security concern is that Outer Space should be free of weapons.We must recognize the necessity for the world, space community to avoid terrestrial geo-political conflict to be drawn into outer space thus threatening the space asses belonging to humanity.
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[국문 번역: Text Fwd] 2010 GN Conference, India, Oct. 9~12 인디아 주관 글로벌 넷워크 연간 회담 2010년 10월 9일~12일

* Image source: Bruce Gagnon blog(Organizing Notes)

* Indian activists during the 'Keep Space for Peace week', Oct. 3~10, 2009
2009년 10월 3~10 '우주 평화주' 기간, 인도 활동가들

Click the image above for larger view
화면을 클릭하시면 이미지가 확대됩니다.
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[역주] 글 로벌 넷워크 연간 모임은 회원이 아니더라도 관심있는 사람이면 '누구나' 참가할 수 있는 공개 회의입니다. 2010년 글로벌 넷워크는 2개의 회의를 여는데 5월 9일은 비핵확산 조약 심의 회담을 둘러싼 여러 민간 평화 행사들의 일부로서 뉴욕에서 연간 회원 모임을 갖고 10월 9~12일에는 인도 중부 지방 나그푸르에서 본 우주 [이슈] 조직 연간 회담을 갖습니다. 관심있으신 분들의 많은 참여를 바랍니다.

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* Update by Bruce Gagnon on Dec. 26 through the Global Network/ No US Bases List
: See the updated program at the bottom.

브루스 개그논이 글로벌 넷워크 및 해외 미군 기지 반대 리스트를 통해 12월 26일, 엎데이트를 보냄
: 엎데이트된 프로그렘은 맨 밑을 보시길.

"If you have interest in attending this international space organizing conference please let us know as soon as possible so we can pre-arrange for housing, Visa's, transportation and other important tasks. This will be an exceptional life changing experience for all of us." [Refer to the contact address below]

“ 여러분께서 국제 우주 [평화] 이슈 조직 회담에 관심이 있으시다면 [브루스 개그논]에게 가능한 한 되도록 빨리 알려주셔 거주, 비자, 운송, 그리고 그 외 다른 중요한 과제들을 미리 준비할 수 있도록 알려 주시길 바랍니다. 이 여행은 우리 모두에게 삶을 바꿀 예외적인 경험이 될 것입니다.”
[밑의 연락처 참조]
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* Sent from Bruce Gagnon through the No US Bases List on Dec. 20, 2009. Also Click HERE
브루스 개그논 2009년 12월 20일 No US Bases List를 통해 보냄. 여기를 또한 보시길.


'GN Friends:

글로벌 넷워크 친구 여러분께

You know we will hold our annual space organizing conference in Nagpur, India next October. Below see the preliminary program that Rao has outlined. Please send us any feedback.

아시겠지만 [우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 넷워크]는 내년 10월 인디아 나그푸르에서 연간 우주 [평화] 회담을 열려 합니다. 라오씨께서 대략한 초기 입안 프로그램을 보시길. 어떠한 의견도 보내주시면 고맙겠읍니다.

Also please know that in order for Rao to get approval from the government of India to hold this conference he must provide a list of those of us coming from outside the country. If there is the slightest chance you might be attending please see me and Rao the following info ASAP. [Please refer to the contact address below]:

또한 라오씨께서 이 회담을 위해 인도 정부로부터 승인을 얻기 위해서는 해외에서 오는 우리의 리스트를 제출해야 한다 합니다. 여러분들 중 참석하실 가능성이 약간이라도 있다 생각되는 분들께서는 저와 라오씨에게 다음의 정보를 가능한 빨리 보내주시길 바랍니다. [아래 연락 정보 참조하시길]:


이름 (Name of the Participant)
아버지/남편 이름 (Father’s/Husband’s name)
국적 (Nationality)
생년월일 (Date of Birth)
탄생 장소 (Place of Birth)
여권 번호 (Passport N0)
여권 발행 일시 & 장소 (Date& Place of issue of Passport)
여권 만료일 (Date of Expiry of Passport)
주소 (Address)


Thanks.
감사합니다.

Bruce
브루스

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet@mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)'

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* Update was sent by Bruce Gagnon on Dec. 26,
with the fix of dates (from Oct. 11~14 to Oct. 9~12, 2010) etc.


2010년 인디아 나그푸르
우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 넷워크 연간 회담
Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
(space4peace.org)
2010 Annual Conference, Nagpur, India
(Oct. 9~12, 2009)
(2009년 10월 9일~12일)

아시아의 비핵무장화와 비미사일 방어 실현을 위한 국제 회담
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACHIEVING
A NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND MISSILE DEFENCE FREE ASIA

2010년 10월 9일
October 9, 2010

11.00 – 12.00 등록 Registration

12.00 – 13.00 점심 Lunch

13.00 – 14.00 환영사및 소개 Welcome and Introduction

나그푸르 방문 환영사 Welcome to Nagpur Address – 10min.

개시 연설 (기조 연설) Inaugural address (key note) – 20 min.

글로벌 넷워크 소개 (GN 의장 데이브 웹) Introduction to GN by Dave Webb – 10min.

환영 연설 (브루스 개그논 기조 연설) Welcome Address by Bruce Gagnon (key note) – 20 min.

14.00 – 17.00 주제 1- 인류가 생존할 수 있을 것인가?
Plenary Session I – Can the Humanity Survive?

대량 살상 무기
__Weapons of Mass Destruction,

기후 변화와 우주 기술의 역활
__Climate Change and the role of Space Technologies

[비]핵확산 조약 심의 위원회 결과
__Outcome of Nuclear Proliferation Treaty Review Committee

전략 사령부, 우주 지배와 지구 통제
__StratCom, Space Domination and Global Control

외계 우주의 무기 경쟁 금지
__Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space

기후 변화, 폭력 그리고 정치적 통제
__Climate Change, Violence and Political Control


17.00 – 18.00 문화 프로그램 Cultural Programme


18.00 – 20.00 주제 II-아시아 비핵무장의 문제들과 전망들
Plenary Session II – Problems and Prospects of Nuclear Disarmament in Asia

인디아, 파키스탄 그리고 비핵확산 조약
__India, Pakistan and the NPT

인디아 파키스탄 갈등(카쉬미르 문제 포함)
__India Conflict with Pakistan (including Kashmir)

인디아 대 중국 갈등
__ India Conflict with China

미국-인도 핵 거래
__US-India nuclear deal

한국 또는 일본의 전망
__ South Korea, Japanese perspectives

20.00 저녁 식사 Dinner

2010년 10월 10일
October 10, 2010

09.00 - 11.00 주제 III-아시아에서 미사일 방어와 우주 무기화의 위험
Plenary Session III -. The Danger of Missile Defence and Weaponisation of Space in Asia


인디아 우주 프로그램
__ Indian Space program

인디아와 미사일 방어
__ India and Missile Defence

파키스탄의 무인 비행기들
__Drones in Pakistan


11.00 – 13.00 주제 세션 IV- 아시아와 테러리즘
Plenary Session IV - Asia and Terrorism

:아프가니스탄 전쟁과 대서양 조약 기구의 역활
: The War in Afghanistan and role of NATO

13.00 점심 Lunch

15.00 – 17.00 주제 세션 V- 아시아 연합 조직의 전망
Plenary Session V - Prospects of Asian Union

: 아시아 주변의 전망들
: Perspectives from around Asia

16.00 – 18.00 나그푸르 선언 채택
Adoption of Nagpur Declaration.

20.00 저녁 식사 Dinner

2010년 10월 11일
October 11, 2010

09.00 – 11.00 글로벌 넷워크 연간 회의및 전략 토론
GN Annual Meeting and Strategy Discussion

11:00-12:00 청소년 그룹과의 만남(들)
Interaction with Youth Group(s)

12.00 – 14.00 교육 기관 방문들
Visit to Educational Institutions

14.00 점심 Lunch

16.00 – 18.00 관광 Sightseeing

2010년 10월 12일
October 12, 2010

마하트마 간디가 자유 투쟁기간 한 때 지냈던 세와그람 방문. 이 아쉬람은 마하트마 간디의 본부로 1934년부터 40년까지 6년간 봉사되었다. 간디는 지역적으로 이용가능한 물질들을 이용해 자신이 직접 세와그람 아쉬람을 지었다. 그는 풀이 무성한 녹색 환경 가운데에 있는 아쉬람에서 전기나 전화 없이 살았다.

Visit to Sewagram Ashram where Mahatma Gandhi spent time during the freedom struggle of India. The ashram served as the headquarters of Mahatma Gandhi for six years, from 1934 to 1940. Gandhi built the Sewagram Ashram himself, with the material that was available locally. He lived at the ashram, amidst lush green surroundings, without any facilities of electricity and telephone.

* Image source: same as the link above
''Sewagram Ashram'

Video Fwd: ARUNDHATI ROY ON INDIA'S CONTRADICTIONS

Bruce Gagnon blog on Dec. 11, 2009



'World renowned activist and writer Arundhati Roy on the real conditions in India.

The Global Network will hold its annual space organizing conference in Nagpur, India in October of 2010.'

Text fwd: Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink

Text Informed by Bruce Gagnon on July 30, 2009

Foreign Policy In Focus
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6295
Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink
By Zia Mian | July 27, 2009


The contradictions and confusions in U.S. policy in South Asia were
on full display during Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's recent
visit to India. U.S. support for India, which centers on making
money, selling weapons, and turning a blind eye to the country's
nuclear weapons, is fatally at odds with U.S. policy and concerns
about Pakistan.

By enabling an India-Pakistan arms race, rather than focusing on
resolving the conflict and helping them make peace, the United States
is driving Pakistan toward the very collapse it fears.

America's New India

In an op-ed in The Times of India just before the start of her visit,
Clinton laid out U.S. interests in India. The first item on Clinton's
list was "the 300 million members of India's burgeoning middle
class," that she identified as "a vast new market and opportunity."

The emerging Indian middle class is large - for comparison, the
current total U.S. population is also about 300 million - and greedy
for a more American lifestyle. But the focus on India as
fundamentally a market for U.S. goods and services, and a source of
cheap labor for U.S. corporations, marks a remarkable shift. The
United States and other western countries have traditionally seen
India as the home of the desperately poor, deserving charity and
needing development. But no more. Clinton's article made no mention
of India's poor, which the World Bank recently estimated as including
over 450 million people living on less than $1.25 a day.

India is also seen as a new emerging power of the 21st century, one
that can be an ally of the United States and help it balance and
contain the rise of China. Under the Bush Administration, in 2004,
the U.S. and India signed an agreement called the "Next Steps in
Strategic Partnership." To make India a fitting strategic partner, a
senior State Department official later explained the U.S."goal is to
help India become a major world power in the 21st century," and left
no doubt what this meant, saying "we understand fully the
implications, including military implications, of that statement."

India is seeking both to modernize and expand its military forces. It
has dramatically increased its military budget, up over 34% alone
this year. India now has the 10th-highest military spending in the
world. It's becoming a major market for U.S. arms sales. U.S. weapons
makers Lockheed Martin and Boeing have already racked up deals worth
billions of dollars. But the real bonanza is still to come. India is
said to be planning to spend as much $55 billion on weapons over the
next five years.

But the big news of the Clinton visit was the announcement of an
India-U.S. Strategic Dialogue. This will include an annual formal
meeting of key officials, co-chaired by the secretary of State and
India's external affairs minister, and including on the U.S. side the
secretaries of Agriculture, Trade, Energy, Education, Finance, Health
and Human Services, Homeland Security, and others. But given the
difference in the power and range of interests of the two states,
this will be no dialogue of equals. The process is intended to align
Indian interests and policies in a wide range of areas with those of
the United States.

Nuclear India

In her press conference with India's minister of external affairs,
Clinton said, "We discussed our common vision of a world without
nuclear weapons and the practical steps that our countries can take
to strengthen the goal of nonproliferation." But there was no mention
here of India's nuclear buildup, or of the United States asking India
to slow down or to end its program. In fact, one would never guess
from Clinton's remarks that India even had a nuclear weapons program.
She seemed interested only in the prospect of U.S. sales of nuclear
reactors to India worth $10 billion or more.

India is one of perhaps only three countries still making material
for new nuclear weapons. The others are Pakistan and Israel (with
North Korea threatening to resume production). India is building a
fast-breeder reactor that is expected to begin operation in 2010 and
is outside International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. It could
increase three- to five-fold India's current capacity to make
plutonium for nuclear weapons.

India seeks to become a major nuclear power. On July 26, it launched
its first nuclear-powered submarine. India plans to deploy several of
these submarines. Last year, it carried out its first successful
underwater launch of a 700 kilometer-range ballistic missile,
Sagarika, intended for the submarine. India joins the United States,
Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China in the club of those
owning such nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered submarines. Israel is
believed to have nuclear-armed cruise missiles on diesel powered
submarines.

India is also developing an array of land-based missiles. In May
2008, it tested the 3,500 kilometer-range Agni-III missile, which was
subsequently reported to have been approved for deployment with the
army, and is working on a missile with a range of over 5,000
kilometer. In November 2008, India also tested a 600 kilometer-range
silo-based missile, Shourya. In 2009, India carried out several tests
of its cruise missile, Brahmos, which the army and navy are inducting
into service.

The U.S. silence on India's nuclear weapons and missile programs is
all the more telling, given that it was the Clinton administration
that proposed United Nations Security Council resolution 1172. In
1998, this unanimous Security Council resolution called on India and
Pakistan to "immediately stop their nuclear weapon development
programs, to refrain from the deployment of nuclear weapons, to cease
development of ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear
weapons, and any further production of fissile material for nuclear
weapons." The Bush administration ignored it. It seems the Obama
administration will too.

Pakistan v. India

Pakistan was noticeable for its near absence from Clinton's agenda in
India. It came up only in the context of the need to fight terrorism.
Forgotten was the brute fact that India and Pakistan are straining
harder than ever in their nuclear and conventional arms race. A
Pakistani diplomat responded to the Clinton visit to India by telling
The Washington Post that "What Hillary is doing there is probably
again going to start an arms race." This race drives Pakistan toward
collapse, the very thing the United States fears.

Pakistan is buying U.S. weapons as fast as it can, some paid for with
U.S. military aid, with arms sales agreements worth over $6 billion
since 2001, including for new F-16 jet-fighters. China, an old ally,
is also supplying the country with jet fighters and other weapons.
Pakistan is also boosting its nuclear program. It's building two new
reactors to make plutonium for nuclear weapons. It continues to test
both ballistic missiles and cruise missiles to carry nuclear weapons.

The principal U.S. concern about Pakistan, aside from the country
falling apart and its nuclear weapons falling into the hands of
Islamists, is the war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan
and in the border areas of Pakistan. It has been telling Pakistan to
focus its military forces and strategic concerns on this battle,
which requires moving more soldiers away from the border with India.
The generals who command Pakistan's army were bound to resist such a
redeployment. They worry about the new U.S.-India strategic
relationship, and what it may mean for them when the war on the
Taliban is over and the United States no longer needs Pakistan.

The Pakistani army, which rules the country even when civilians are
in office, will not easily shift its view of India. The army and
those who lead it see the threat from India as their very reason for
being. The army has grown in size, influence, and power, to the point
where it dwarfs all other institutions in society and would lose much
if there was peace with India. But there is a personal dimension as
well. The partition of the subcontinent 62 years ago that created
Pakistan is in the living memory of many who make decisions in
Pakistan. General Pervez Musharraf, who was chief of army staff
before he seized power in 1999 and ruled for nine years, was born in
India before partition. General Musharraf, along with the current
chief of army staff, General Kayani, and others in Pakistan's high
command, fought as young officers in the 1971 war against India. The
war ended with Pakistan itself partitioned, as East Pakistan became
the independent state of Bangladesh, with India's help, and 90,000
Pakistani soldiers captured by India as prisoners of war.

As Graham Usher notes in the new issue of the Middle East Report,
before becoming president, Barack Obama seemed to understand that
resolving the conflict between India and Pakistan was critical to
dealing with the problems in Afghanistan and with the Taliban. In
2007, Obama claimed "I will encourage dialogue between Pakistan and
India to work toward resolving their dispute over Kashmir and between
Afghanistan and Pakistan to resolve their historic differences and
develop the Pashtun border region. If Pakistan can look toward the
east with greater confidence, it will be less likely to believe that
its interests are best advanced through cooperation with the
Taliban." There is little evidence that this view has yet informed
U.S. policy.

The Reality of Pakistan

In their rush to make money and to preserve American power in the
world by crafting an alliance with India, U.S. policymakers seem to
have averted their eyes from the reality that stares them in the face
in Pakistan. In March 2009, the Director of National Intelligence
summed up the situation in Pakistan:

The government is losing authority in parts of the North-West
Frontier Province and has less control of its semi-autonomous tribal
areas: even in the more developed parts of the country, mounting
economic hardships and frustration over poor governance have given
rise to greater radicalization.Economic hardships are intense, and
the country is now facing a major balance of payments challenge.
Islamabad needs to make painful reforms to improve overall
macroeconomic stability. Pakistan's law-and-order situation is
dismal, affecting even Pakistani elites, and violence between various
sectarian, ethnic, and political groups threatens to escalate.
Pakistan's population is growing rapidly at a rate of about 2 percent
a year, and roughly half of the country's 172 million residents are
illiterate, under the age of 20, and live near or below the poverty
line.

Things have worsened since then. The Taliban is now seeking to escape
U.S. drone attacks and major assaults by the Pakistan army in the
Tribal Areas by taking refuge in the cities. There are already no-go
areas in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, where the Taliban controls
the streets. Meanwhile electricity riots have exploded in cities
across the country, with mobs attacking public buildings, blocking
highways, and damaging trains and buses. Each day seems to bring news
of some new failure of the state to provide basic social services.

The Obama administration believes that an increase in U.S. aid to
Pakistan can help solve the problem. The Kerry-Lugar bill (the
Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act) approved by the Senate in
June would triple economic aid to Pakistan to $1.5 billion a year for
five years. But as the Congressional Research Service noted in its
recent report on Pakistan, the United States has given Pakistan about
$16.5 billion in "direct, overt U.S. aid" up to 2007. More of the
same offers little hope for change.

A basic reordering of U.S. priorities in South Asia is long overdue.
The first principle of U.S. policy in the region should be to do no
more harm. This means it has to stop feeding the fire between India
and Pakistan. Only an end to the South Asian arms race can begin to
undo the structures of fear, hostility, and violence that have
sustained the conflict in the subcontinent for so long. The search
for peace may then have at least a chance of success.


Zia Mian is a physicist with the Program on Science and Global
Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs at Princeton University and a columnist for Foreign Policy In
Focus.

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