ICAN welcomes Secretary General to the United Nations Ban Ki-moon's speech "The United Nations and Security in a Nuclear Weapons-Free World", made at an East-West Institute event on weapons of mass destruction and disarmament. Attended by Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei (Director of the IAEA), Dr. Henry Kissinger, and leaders from the E.U., China, India, Japan, Pakistan, and the USA, Ban Ki-moon specifically urged all nations to pursue a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC).

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ICAN-UK is a new consortium of groups facilitated by Medact as the UK affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. ICAN´s aim is to draw attention to the feasibility of nuclear abolition through the model treaty outlined in Securing our Survival, the Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC), and to generate political will for nuclear disarmament through educating and engaging the public and policy makers.

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The global momentum for a Nuclear Weapons Convention continued to build throughout November, with the adoption of a dynamic nuclear abolition resolution by the German Greens party, the ouster of a virulently pro-nuclear government in Australia, the passage of a broad plank of disarmament resolutions by the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, and the endorsement of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) by growing numbers of NGOs, grassroots activists, and prominent individuals.

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On the 6th of August 2007 at the anniversary of Hiroshima massacre Derman Boztok (general secretary and international councilor of NUSED) and his colleague Dr. Mehmet Kum (deputy health director and president of locally active NGO) declared to press the Igdir Appeal of NUSED and several local NGOs of Igdir Province (the most eastern province) condemning the use and development of nuclear weapons, reminding IPPNW´s ICAN efforts globally and pointing out the very imminent threat posed locally by the Metsamor nuclear plant at the Armenian border.

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A Petition has been prepared by Medact and CND to urge the Government to abandon Trident replacement and promote a Nuclear Weapons Convention to facilitate the elimination of nuclear weapons by 2020. "We, the undersigned, welcome the UK government's commitment to multilateral nuclear disarmament through good faith negotiations as required by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."

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ICAN was launched with a seminar at the Nobel Institute, a street demonstration in Oslo, and a concert celebrating the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer. On Saturday 21 April 2007, students (MedFred) from the Medical Schools of Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, and Tromsoe arranged street campaigns in their respective cities. Dressed in white coats and flanked by a new ICAN banner they collected signatures on a petition to the Norwegian Government calling for a ban on nuclear weapons. They handed out ICAN flyers and envelopes with sunflower seeds.

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On April 30 ICAN was launched at the Vienna nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) meeting, along with the book Securing our Survival (SOS): the Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention with a panel featuring Mayor Akiba of Hiroshima, Dr. Ron McCoy of IPPNW, Dr. Carlos Vargas of Costa Rica, as well as co-authors of the Nuclear Weapons Convention, Alyn Ware, Jurgen Scheffran and Felicity Hill.

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The nuclear policies of the United States continue to dominate the beginning of the 21st century, but the proliferation of nuclear weapons to other countries, the possibility of nuclear terrorism, and the erosion of the treaty frameworks that have slowed the spread of nuclear weapons have created new dangers and new obstacles to the goal of disarmament. IPPNW has launched an International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to mobilize a groundswell of global support for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

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