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私たちは、11月中旬予定とされるインド・モディー首相来日時における、「日印原子力協力協定」（以下「協定」）の調印・締結に強く反対します。

本「協定」は、NPT（核拡散防止条約）非加盟ながら核兵器を持つインドに対して、日本が原子力関係の技術を輸出することを目的とします。

戦争被爆国である日本の協力で原発建設となり、「協定」で認めるとされる「使用済み核燃料の再処理」により抽出されたプルトニウムが、国際的監視もなく軍事転用される可能性もあります。

「協定」締結は、NPTやCTBT(包括的核実験禁止条約)を無視して核軍拡を続け、国際的批判を受けるインドに「原発と核兵器の増産」をもたらし、それを日本が助力することとなり、核廃絶をめざしてきた日本が、「協定」締結により世界の核廃絶・核兵器禁止へ向けた動きに反することは明らかです。

本年9月以降、核兵器をもつ隣国であるインドとパキスタンは、カシミール地方紛争を激化させ、核戦争への危機も高まっています。まさに11月に「協定」締結となれば、南アジア地域の軍事緊張が一層高まることは明らかです。

また、世界中を震撼させた東電第一原発事故の収束もできず、多くの避難者への補償もないまま、インドだけでなく広く世界に原発を売り込む日本政府の非倫理性は、国際的な非難にさらされています。

インド現地では、原子力発電所に懸念を抱く地元住民が反対運動を大規模に展開し、これに対する激しい弾圧が行われています。また、住民に対する土地の補償、安全対策、避難計画、補償も全く不十分です。

私たちは、日印両政府が日印原子力協定を締結しないこと、交渉を中止することを強く訴えます。

 

要請事項

1. 日印原子力協力協定を締結しないこと。また、これにかかる一切の交渉を中止すること。

 

日印原子力協定阻止キャンペーン2016

呼びかけ団体：

グリーンアクション、原子力資料情報室、コアネット、「しないさせない！戦争協力」関西ネットワーク、たんぽぽ舎、とめよう原発！！関西ネットワーク、ノーニュークス・アジアフォーラム・ジャパン、NPO法人ピースデポ、ピースボート、美浜・大飯・高浜原発に反対する大阪の会（５０音順）

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We strongly oppose the signing of the India-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (hereafter: ‘the Agreement’) during the Indian Prime Minister We strongly oppose the signing of the India-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (hereafter: ‘the Agreement’) during the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Modi’s upcoming visit to Japan, expected to be in mid November this year.

The purpose of this Agreement is to allow Japan to export nuclear technology to India, a country that has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and in fact possesses nuclear weapons. With the cooperation of Japan, the only country that has experienced wartime nuclear attack, this Agreement will enable India to build nuclear reactors and it is believed it will also allow India to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods used in these reactors. With no effective international safeguards, there is a possibility that this plutonium could be used for military purposes. The already weak international non-proliferation regime, with NPT at its center, will be severely undermined with the legitimization of India’s nuclear weapons, which is, in effect what Japan is doing by signing this Agreement.

It is clear that by signing the Agreement, Japan will negate all its efforts towards global nuclear disarmament and abolition of nuclear weapons, based on its experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since September this year, tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India over Kashmir have been boiling over, and the danger of a nuclear war erupting is escalating. It is clear that signing the Agreement this November will only increase the military tensions in South Asia.

Furthermore, the nuclear accident which shock the world at Fukushima Daiichi, is by no means over. The moral integrity of the Japanese government is being called into question globally as it tries to peddle its nuclear technology, not just to India, but around the world, when the victims of Fukushima have not even been compensated.

In India, citizens who are concerned about the dangers of nuclear power have mounted large-scale protests, which have been met with brutal repression. Compensation for land acquisition, safety measures in case of accidents, evacuation plans and general compensation is woefully inadequate.

The Japanese government, which has refused to release contents of the Agreement for the reason that it was under negotiation, is now preparing to force through the signing of the Agreement. This Agreement is highly problematic, as we have described above.

We strongly urge both governments not to sign the Agreement and to stop negotiations immediately.

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Not to sign the India-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and to stop negotiations immediately.

Campaign Opposing the India-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement 2016