Issue - meetings

“We the undersigned call upon Aberdeen City Council to support efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons by endorsing the United Nations treaty To Prohibit Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). We request that the Council join ‘Nuclear Free Local Authorities’ whose aim is to tackle in practical ways and within their powers the problems caused by civil and military nuclear hazards.”

(Deferred at last Council meeting at the petitioner’s request)

The Council resolved:-

(i)             to thank the petitioners for presenting their petition; and

(ii)           to instruct the Chief Officer - Governance to report back to Council on the implications of joining ‘Nuclear Free Local Authorities’.

With reference to Article 4(B) of this minute, the Council had before it details of the following petition which had been submitted in accordance with the Council’s petitions procedure and Standing Order 15.

“We the undersigned call upon Aberdeen City Council to support efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons by endorsing the United Nations treaty To Prohibit Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). We request that the Council join ‘Nuclear Free Local Authorities’ whose aim is to tackle in practical ways and within their powers the problems caused by civil and military nuclear hazards.”

The Council resolved:-

(i)             to thank the petitioners for presenting their petition; and

(ii)           to instruct the Chief Officer - Governance to report back to Council on the implications of joining ‘Nuclear Free Local Authorities’.