WELTKONGRESS
ALTERNATIVEN und
UMWELT

WORLD CONGRESS

ALTERNATIVES and
ENVIRONMENT

Ehrenschutz 1. Weltkongress:
Der Bsterreichische Bundesptisident
Ehrenschutz 2. Weltkongress:
Der Biirgermeister u. Landeshauptmann von Wien

Vorsitzender:
Nobelpreistrager
Prof. DDr. Dr.h.c.mult. Konrad Lorenz

Generalsekretar:
Standiger Vertreter bei der IAEO u.
Hon. Konsul aD. Alois G. Englander



Dear Sir :

Auspices 1st World Congress:
The Austrian Federal President
Auspices 2nd World Congress:
The Governor and Mayor of Vienna
Chairman:
Nobel Prize Laureate
Prof. DDr. Dr.h.c.mult. Konrad Lorenz

Secretary General:
Permanent Representative to the IAEA,
Hon. Consul Alois G. Englander, ret.
Vienna, October 29th, 1985

      The Nobel Laureates and other distinguished participants
of the World Congress I1 PEACE - THE BEST ENVIRONMENT t, that has
just been held in Maastricht, Holland from October 25th to 28th,
in conjunction with 9SAOS Kongrestt, have unanimously passed the
enclosed appeal. They have decided to present it through delegations
of Nobel Laureates to President Reagan in Washington and to Secretary
General Gorbachev in Moscow, before the Summit will be held in
Geneva on November 19th and 20th, 1985.
     Due tb the pressure of time, please cable your agreement
to have your name added to this appeal to: World Congress,
27-28 Graben, Wien, and return both copies signed.(2 appeals!)
     If you are interested in going.to Washington and/or MOSCOW
as part of one or both of the delegations, please let us know
immediately.

     To cover the expenses any donations would be highly
appreciated. '
      We remain, with kindest regards,

2 enclosures

Yours very sincerely
World Congress
Alternativeg and Environment

Dr.Marshall W.Nirenberg
National Institutes 0s Health
Bethesda, Maryland
USA     20014

fi ."lois G. Englander
Secretary General

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AN APPEAL TO PRSSIDL   REAGAN AND SECRETARY GENERAL GORBACHEV

Maastricht, Holland, Sunday, October 27th, 1985

You have an unparalleled opportunity to change the course of human
history.

We call upon you not to leave Geneva until you have agreed to a concrete
plan for comprehensive disarmament, including the following immediate
steps:

1. Pledging No-First-Use of nuclear weapons;
2. A Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, starting with a mutual
moratorium on nuclear explosions;
3. Progressive de-militarization of outer space;
4. Meaningful reductions in present nuclear stockpiles as a beginning
  toward their early elimination:
5. Establishment of a joint framework for assessing the dangers of the
  accidental initiation of nuclear war.

As President Eisenhower said,  the arms race is daily taking food from
the mouths of the hungry.

Today security can be found only in disarmament and meeting the needs of
a dignified human existence. The future demands a cooperative redirection
of scientific and technological know-how.

World peace will require less emphasis on ideologies and more on tolerance
as well as on the solution of problems which depend upon international
cooperation.

Courage today is required not in war, but to make peace.
We call on you to begin the PEACE RACE.

AN APPEAL TO PRESIDENT REAGAN AND SECRETARY GENERAL GORBAC~,U

Maastricht, Holland, Sunday, October 27th, 1985

You have an unparalleled opportunity to change the course of human
history.

We call upon you not to leave Geneva until you have agreed to a concrete
plan for comprehensive disarmament, including the following immediate
steps:

1. Pledging No-First-Use of nuclear weapons:
2. A Comprehensive Nuclear Test San Treaty, starting with a mutual
moratorium on, nuclear explosions;
3. Progressive de-militarization of outer space;
4. Meaningful reductions in present nuclear stockpiles as a beginning
  toward their early elimination;
5. Establishment of a joint framework for assessing the dangers of the
  accidental initiation of nuclear war.

As President Eisenhower said, the arms race is daily taking food from
the mouths of the hungry.

Today security can be found only in disarmament and meeting the needs of
a dignified human existence. The future demands a cooperative redirection
of scientific and technological know-how.

World peace will require less emphasis on ideologies and more on tolerance
as well as on the solution of problems which depend upon international
cooperation.

Courage today is required not in war, but to make peace.
We call on you to begin the PEACE RACE.


XAVIER PEREZ DE CUELLAR :

MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ~0 THE WORLD CONGRESS

       Peace - The Best Environment

Maastricht, the Netherlands, Oct. 25-28 1985

  Presented through the Assistant Secretary General Dr.Robert Muller.

   It is a great pleasure for me to send my greetings to the

distinguished scientists and other participants in the World

Congress on Peace:  the Best Environment.  I congratulate the

organizers of the Congress on their most timely choice of the

topic for its aiscussion.

   You gather precisely at a time when, on the fortieth

anniversary of the United Nations, its Member States are

engaged in the vast exercise of drawing the balance sheet of


peace.  The focus is on questions as to what has been

accomplished during the last four decades in the effort to

build a better world for all and what has not and why.   Answers


to them involve an assessment of the fundamentals of the

current human situation.

   I attach very great importance to the scientists' part in

this exercise.  There are gratifying signs of a process of

earnest self-examination in their ranks.  Many eminent leaders

of science are disturbed by the misdirection of the scientific

talent that is representea by the ceaseless development of the

technologies of destruction.   The relentless arms race has now

reached the absurd limit of threatening the very existence of

the human species and perhaps,  the continued habitability of

the planet even.   If man is not to suffer the fate of the

dinosaur,  the necessity of re-orienting the scientific and

technological outlook towards the goals of averting the

collapse of civilization and of enhancing human dignity and

alleviating human suffering needs to be recognized - first of

all,  in the scientific community itself.  Gatherings of

scientists .like yours,  imbued not only with compassion for the

human race but also with a sense of urgency, can stimulate this

process.

   The proposition that peace provides the best environment

for human betterment is itself axiomatic but its persuasive

effect can be greatly strengthened by analytical exposition.

Scientists can make a contribution to it no less important than

that of statesmen.  They know better than laymen what great

advances for the reduction of disease, the elimination of

poverty,  the bringing about or an equilibrium between human

society and its surroundings are within the reach of scientic

ingenuity and how these advances can be realizea only in

conditions of just and stable peace.   Their observations on

these questions,  made with their characteristic regard to cold

facts,  cannot fail to have a beneficial impact on the political

leadership of all societies.

   In extenaing to you my warmest wishes for a productive

congress,  I am voicing the hope that your discussions will lead

towards this most desirable goal.