Dear participants at the Washington Gathering to Free Vanunu,
Allow us to express our firm support for the international campaign to
release the courageous nuclear whistle-blower, Vanunu. Never shall we
forget that Vanunu is the man who initiated by his revelation of Israeli
nuclear secrets the international campaign to free the Middle East from
nuclear weapons. Our release from the deadly threats of these weapons
and other weapons of mass destruction is totally identified with
Vanunu's freedom. Both targets are a great contribution to peace for
all people of the region, Arabs and Israelis.
Thanks to the great step he took fourteen years ago, the first
Conference on Nuclear Weapon Free Zone in the Middle East was held in
Cairo, 1988. Possibly, the first presentation of the Vanunu case at an
international conference took place in Cairo at that event.
We need Vanunu to be free to lead our international campaign for a
nuclear-free Middle East and World. Mordechai Vanunu must be released
immediately.
Bahig Nassar
Coordinator, Arab Coordination Center of NGOs
