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Welcome, Mayor! Welcome, concerned citizens!

Mayors for Peace leadership calls on the world to prepare for
“the UN decisive decade for nuclear disarmament 2010-2020"

The 7th Executive Conference of Mayors for Peace meeting November 21 -22, 2007 in the historic Palazzo Vecchio as guests of the Mayor of Florence, Leonardo Domenici, vowed to provide global leadership in preparing for the Disarmament Decade called for by the UN General Assembly. This third phase of the 2020 Vision Campaign will be launched in Geneva in May 2008, on the fifth anniversary of the speech made there by Mayors for Peace President, Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba of Hiroshima, in which he proposed a mayors campaign against nuclear weapons.

As in the first phase of the 2020 Vision Campaign, one of the main focuses of international activity will be the NPT review process. In conjunction with the 2005 NPT Review Conference, Mayors for Peace organized a Mayors Conference at the United Nations which was addressed by then-Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In this review cycle, Mayors for Peace will organize two mayors conferences during the review preparatory period, in Geneva and in New York. And it will send a delegation of mayors from the major metropolises of the world to the 2010 Review Conference. Further elements of this aspect of the 2020 Vision Campaign will be revealed in Geneva in May.