PEACE campaigner and CND vice-president Bruce Kent arrives in Tavistock as part of a national tour on Tuesday February 15. The tour is promoting the Abolition 2000 petition, Time to get rid of all nuclear weapons everywhere. Mr Kent was born in 1929 and first became involved with the international peace movement in 1958 due to his work with Pax Christi in Britain. He was ordained as a Catholic priest at the same time and retired from the active ministry in 1987. He has at various times been the general secretary and chairperson of CND, chairperson of the London region of the United Nations Association, chairperson of the Culture of Peace committee and of the British overseas development agency War on Want. The tour has been organised by CND to draw attention to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference taking place in New York in May. Mr Kent will take the petition, which local dignitaries have been invited to sign, to the United Nations. He said: ?I believe that the very least ordinary citizens can do is call on the government to take a lead in proposing the start of abolition negotiations at the May conference. We cannot expect non nuclear states to observe their part of the bargain treaty, while we ignore ours.? Bruce Kent will be at Tavistock?s United Reformed Church Hall at 7.30pm.
