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Published on June 11th, 2013 | by Krista van Velzen

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Hennis zwijgt over de kernwapens in Nederland

D66-kamerlid Sjoerd Sjoerdsma stelde vanmiddag tijdens het Vragenuur vragen over uitspraken van oud-premier Ruud Lubbers (CDA) over de aanwezigheid van kernwapens op vliegbasis Volkel. Minister van Defensie Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (VVD) wil echter niet bevestigen dat in Nederland kernwapen liggen. 

Ondanks het vragenvuur van de oppositie hield Hennis haar lippen stijf op elkaar. "Ik doe geen mededelingen over de aanwezigheid van de wapens, noch over aantallen en locaties", zei Hennis vandaag in de Tweede Kamer.

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Krista van Velzen is a former Dutch MP and is currently working as nuclear disarmament campaigner with PAX in The Netherlands. She is running a citizens initiative in the Netherlands in order to get national legislation banning nuclear weapons. Van Velzen has been working on disarmament issues since the early nineties. As spokesperson on defence and foreign affairs she has convinced the Dutch government to ban and eliminate clustermunitions and and to prohibite investments as well. She has worked in Central and Eastern Europe creating a network of campaigners on the nuclear issue. She organised a Walk for Nuclear Disarmament from Brussels to Moscow. Her attempts to disarm a British Trident submarine gave her truly interesting experiences inside a Scottish jail. Disagreeing with president Obama, she believes a world without nuclear weapons is achievable in this lifetime.


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