Resolution of the Uranium Workshop
Taking into account that approximately 70% of
the world's uranium resources are under
indigenous peoples land,
whereas indigenous peoples have been and
continue to be the first victims of uranium
mining and thereby the first victims of the
nuclear fuel chain,
considering the detrimental effects of uranium
mining on the health of workers, population in
the vicinty of the mines and mills as well on
the health as on the social structure /
societies of the respective indigenous peoples,
as testified by indigenous witnesses on many
difernt occassions, the most comprehensive at
THE WORLD URANIUM HEARING in 1992,
WE, the particiapants fo the Euromeeting 1995,
DEMAND THAT
- the mining and processing of uranium is
stopped immediately.
We call upon the Governments and the people of
the states of Europe and on the European Union
- to stop their policy of importing uranium from
other parts of the world,
- to take financial responsibility for the
detrimental effects created by uranium mining in
the past through compensation of workers and
participating in the reclamation of those
uranium mining sites where uranium has been
exploited under European participation or has
been exported to European states,
- to help in the creation of environmentally
sound and socially acceptable economic
opportunities for the respective communities as
a sign of the new partnership between European
states and Indigenous peoles as adopted by the
European Parliament.