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of the International Trade Federation (ITF) in Madrid, Sprain. 



The resolution, which was adopted with the support of national 



trade unions throughout the world, states in part that the ITF:jy 



EXPRESSES alarm at the policy of certain 

 governments to use the world's oceans as dumping 

 grounds for nuclear waste and at the 

 consequential threat of radioactive pollution to 

 marine life and, ultimately, the health and 

 safety of ordinary people,... 



NOTES [the adoption of the international two-year 

 moratorium and scientific risk review],... 



WELCOMES the opposition to nuclear waste dumping 

 at sea expressed by numerous trade unions and 

 trade union centers around the world, 



APPLAUDS the action of those affiliates which 

 have called on their members not to handle or 

 transport any nuclear waste to be dumped at sea 

 and have therefore prevented the dumping of 

 nuclear waste at sea in 1983, [and] 



URGES all affiliates to agree to join the boycott 

 of nuclear wastes to be dumped at sea. . . . 



As a result of the trade union boycotts and decisions by 

 national governments not to resort to the use of non-union 

 personnel, a de facto moratorium appears to be in place, placing 

 the spotlight on the scientific review now underway within the 

 London Dumping Convention framework. 



During this first year of the moratorium, the International 

 Maritime Organization (IMO) , the Convention's secretariat, and 

 the IAEA are soliciting and gathering scientific information. 

 Towards that end, the IAEA convened an international inter-agency 



^ A formal copy of the ITF resolution, as well as information 

 on the vote and participants at the Madrid meeting will be 

 provided to the Subcommittee staff as soon as it is available. 



