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Criteria for acceptance of new Peace Messenger Cities 

Only the policies of the cities and their authorities are relevant, not the acts of private organisations.

The cities must provide information about actual measures taken by their respective local authorities regarding: 

  • Promotion of peace
  • Promotion of solidarity and tolerance in a multicultural and multiracial environment
  • Promotion human rights
  • Encouragement of education and the protection of children
  • Encouragement of  the environmental protection
  • Encouragement of cultural exchange. 

Certainly, the cities must undertake to respect the purpose of the Statutes of the Association and to support actions in favour of Peace led by the United Nations. 

Furthermore, they must undertake to continue to act in favour of peace, to actively participate in the activities of the Association, and to oppose nuclear testing and the use of anti-personnel mines
4/12/2010

Press Release - Oswiecim Appeal
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.
2/10/2010 / New York

Extraordinary IAPMC Executive Board Meeting, New York (April 29 - May 3, 2010)
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.
@ IAPMC 2005