General Butler's Speech to the National Press Club
International Civilian Leaders who have signed the Statement on Nuclear Weapons
Argentina
Australia
Malcom Fraser
Former Prime Minister
Gough Whitlam
Former Prime Minister
Former Foreign Minister
Kim C. Beazley
Leader of the Opposition
Former Deputy Prime Minister
Richard Butler
Ambassador to U.N.
Chair, U.N. Special Commission on Iraq
Chair, Canberra Commission
Gareth Evans
Former Foreign Minister
Deputy Leader of the Opposition
Member, Parliament
Bangladesh
A.D.M.S. Chuwdhury
Deputy Opposition Leader, Parliament
Former Deputy Prime Minister
Muhammad Yunus
Managing Director, Grameen Bank
Brazil
Jose Sarney
Former Prime Minister
Senator
Calso L.N. Amorim
Former Foreign Minister
Bulgaria
Nicolai Dobrev
Chair, National Security Committee, Parliament
Former Minister of Interior
Nicolai Kamov
Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, Parliament
Dimitra Pavlov
Minister of Defense
Canada
Pierre Trudeau
Former Prime Minister
Douglas Roche
Former Ambassador for Disarmament
Chile
Juan Somavia
Ambassador to U.N.
Past President, UN Security Council
China
Qian Jiadong
Former Chinese Ambassador to U.N.
Chen Jifeng
Secretary General
Chinese People's Association for Peace and Disarmament
Colombia
Costa Rica
Jose Figueres
President
Oscar Arias
Former President
Rodrigo Carazo
Former President
Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis
Second Vice President
Rodrigo Oreamuno B.
First Vice President
Cyprus
George Vassiliou
Former President
President, United Democrats
Egypt
Esmat Abdul Meguid
Secretary General, League of Arab States
Former Foreign Minister
Finland
France
Michel Rocard
Former Prime Minister
Chair, Committee on Development
and Cooperation, European Parliament
Jacques Attali
Former Special Advisor to
President Mitterand
Georgia
Germany
Helmut Schmidt
Former Chancellor
Honorary Chair, International Council
Hans Modrow
Former Prime Minister, East Germany
Egon Bahr
Former Minister for Special Affairs
Angelika Beer
Spokesperson for Defense,
Alliance 90/Green Party
Member, Bundestag
Alfred Dregger
Hon. Chair, Christian Democratic Party
Member, Bundestag
Hans Koschnik
Former Administrator, European Union, Mostar
Markus Meckel
Former Foreign Minister, East Germany
Member, Bundestag
Dr. Walter Romberg
Former Minister of Finances, East Germany
Lothar Spæth
Former Minister-President, Baden-Wurttemberg
Hans-Jochen Vogel
Former Mayor, Berlin
Former Minister of Justice
Former Chair, Social Democratic Party
Hungary
Ervin Laszlo
Founder and President,
Club of Budapest
Israel
Yael Dayan
Member, Kneset
Japan
Tsutomu Hata
Former Prime Minister
Member, Diet
Morihiro Hosokawa
Former Prime Minister
Member, Diet
Kiichi Miyazawa
Former Prime Minister
Member, Diet
Tomiichi Murayama
Former Prime Minister
Member, Diet
Noboru Takeshita
Former Prime Minister
Member, Diet
Takako Doi
Former Speaker, House of Representatives
Member, Diet
Masaharu Gotoda
Former Vice Prime Minister
Takashi Hiraoka
Mayor, Hiroshima
Iccho Ito
Mayor, Nagasaki
Yohei Kono
Former Vice Prime Minister
Hyosuke Kujiraoka
Former Vice Speaker, House of Representatives
Member, Diet
Kenzaburo Oe
Nobel Laureate
Kyrgyz Republic
Askar Akaev
President
Muratbek S. Imanaliev
Foreign Minister
Rosa Otunbaeva
Former Foreign Minister
Ambassador to U.K.
Lebanon
Malaysia
Ismail Razali
President, UN General Assembly
Mexico
Mongolia
Punsalmaa Ochirbat
Former President
Jalbuu Choinhor
Ambassador to U.S.
Namibia
Nauru
Lagumont Harris
Former President
Ruben Kun
Member, Parliament
Former President
David Peter
Former Speaker, Parliament
Netherlands
Ruud Lubbers
Former Prime Minister
Minister of State
Andries van Agt
Former Prime Minister
Chair, Interaction Council
E. Korthals Altes
Former Ambassador to Madrid
J. van Houwelingen
Former Deputy Minister of Defence
J.G. Kraaijeveld-Wouters
Former Minister of Defence
Dr. D.J.H. Kruisinga
Former Minister of Defence
Mr. J. de Ruiter
Former Minister of Defence
Prof. Dr. J.C. Terlouw
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Economic Affairs
New Zealand
David Lange
Former Prime Minister
Sir Geoffrey Palmer
Former Prime Minister
North Ireland
Mairead Maguire
Honorary President, Peace People
Nobel Peace Laureate
Pakistan
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
Former UN High Commissioner for Refugees
President, Bellerive Foundation
Mahbub ul Haq
President, Human Development Centre
Former Minister of Finance
Principal Architect of UN's Annual Human Development Report
Panama
Philippines
Portugal
Republic of Korea
Russia
Egor Gaidar
Former Prime Minister
Director, Research Institute for the Economy in Transition
Mikhail Gorbachev
Former President, S.U.
Georgi Arbatov
President, Governing Board, Institute of USA and Canada
Alexander Bessmertnykh
Former Soviet Foreign Minister
Former Soviet Ambassador to US
President, Foreign Policy Association
Vitaly Goldansky
President, Russian Pugwash Committee
Academician
Roland Timerbaev
Former Permanent Representative of the USSR and Russia in IAEA
President, Center for Political Studies of Russia
Euvgeny Velikhov
Member, National Security Council
Academician
Alexander N. Yakovlev
Chair, President's Commission on Rehabilitation of Repression Victims
Chair, Russian Public Television;
Former Member, Politburo
Principal Domestic Advisor to President Gorbachev
South Africa
F.W. De Klerk
Former President
Member, Parliament
National Leader, National Party
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Nobel Peace Laureate
Spain
Enrique Baron Crespo
Member, European Parliament
Former President, European Parliament
Former Minister
Fernando Moran Lopez
Chair, Committee on InstitutionalAffairs, European Parliament
Former Foreign Minister
Sri Lanka
A.T. Ariyaratne
Leader, Sarvodaya Movement
Gandhi Peace Prize, 1996
Anura Bandaranaike
Member, Parliament
Former Minister of Education
Former Leader of Opposition
Jayantha Dhanapala
President, NPT Review and Extension Conference, 1995
Former Ambassador to U.S.
Suriname
I.M. Djwalapersad
Speaker, Assembly
Sweden
Goran Persson
Prime Minister
Ingvar Carlsson
Former Prime Minister
Maj Britt Theorin
Former Chair, UN Commission of Experts on Nuclear Weapons
Member, European Parliament
Tanzania
Al Hassan Mwinyi
Former President
Julius K. Nyerere
Former President
Chair, South Commission
Salim Ahmed Salim
Former Prime Minister
Secretary General, Organization of African Unity
President, U.N. General Assembly, 34th Session
Joseph Warioba
Former Prime Minister
Judge, International Tribunal on Law of the Seas
Thailand
Uganda
Milton Obote
Former President
Dr. Paul Kaeanga Ssemogerere
Former Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister
Dr. Naphali Akena Adoko
Former Chief of State Security
Justice Emmanuel Oteng
Former Acting Chief Justice
United Kingdom
Lord James Callaghan
Former Prime Minister
Member, House of Lords
Lord Denis Healey
Former Secretary of Defense
Former Chancellor of Exchequer
John Edmunds
Former Chief Negotiator, CTBT
Former Head, Arms Control & Disarmament, Foreign Office
Betty Williams
Nobel Peace Laureate
United States
Zimbabwe
