For your information:

The text of the ICOM 1995 General Conference (Stavanger) policy resolution
referred to by Roger Smith is on the ICOM Documents file
(http://www.icom.org) but is reproduced below for convenience:


 Resolution no. 6: Testing of Nuclear Weapons

Recalling Resolution No. 5 of the 10th General Assembly held at Grenoble, France in 1971, concerning
museums and the environment which recognised that the pollution of the air, earth and water and the
defacing of the visual and physical environment is proceeding at an accelerated rate and that all
museums in the world are concerned with the preservation of the natural and cultural environment;
Noting that some nations have recently resumed, or declared their intention to resume, the testing of
nuclear weapons, in particular at Muroroa Atoll and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific Region;

Recognising the social, cultural and environmental destruction resulting from such testing as well as its
implications for the biological systems, cultures and communities with which museums are engaged;

Having Regard to the widespread opposition by peoples all over the world to any resumption of the
testing of nuclear weapons;

 The 18th General Assembly of ICOM, held in Stavanger, Norway, on 7 July 1995,

 Condemns any resumption of the testing of nuclear weapons,

Requests the President of ICOM to convey to the governments concerned ICOM's opposition to any
such resumption, and

Urges all governments to work towards a comprehensive and universal treaty banning the testing of
nuclear weapons.


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Patrick Boylan