Mayor Janusz Marszalek of Oswiecim, Poland, known throughout the world as the site of the infamous Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, has called upon the world’s Head of States, in the name of the one and a half million victims who perished in the furnaces, to use the approaching United Nations’ Review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May to negotiate steps for a convention for the total abolition of nuclear weapons.

The 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review International Planning Committee, comprised of NGO’s from the United States, Europe and Asia is organizing a day and a half long international conference on Nuclear Abolition, Peace and Disarmament on May 1, 2010, the eve of the NPT Review Conference at the United Nations. The conference will be held in the Riverside Church in New York City and will include between 800 and 1,000 participants.

The 23rd General Assembly of the International Association of Peace Messenger Cities will be hosted and organized by the town of Morphou in Cyprus. The venue place will be in Limassol, from October 5 to October 11, 2010.

Oswiecim (Poland) is hosting this year's meeting of the Executive Board, which will be held in Oswiecim during the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of liberation of Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp. The meeting will be held from January 25 - 28, 2010.

As agreed during the meeting of the Executive Board of the IAPMC in Abidjan from April 1-3, 2009, the General Assembly of the IAPMC for 2009 will be held in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, from October 27-30, 2009.

URGENT APPEAL TO THE CITIES: Contact your Governments and request them to support the International Decade of Disarmament and join the Campaign for a Nuclear Free World

Two main venues of the IAPMC will take place in 2009. One is Executive Board Meeting, which will be held from April 1 - 5, 2009 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast...

The Office of the President of the International Association of Peace Messenger Cities, an association of cities designated by the General Assembly of the United Nations as peace messengers, with population of over 175 million, condemns the shocking bombing of people in the over crowded Gaza Strip.