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RESOLUTION NO. 7798
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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF AZUSA IN FAVOR OF A COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN
TREATY.
WHEREAS, the United States and the Soviet Union are
signatories of the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty which obligates
both nations to "seeking to achieve the discontinuance of all
test explosions of nuclear weapons for all time", and
WHEREAS, the United States and the Soviet Union are
signatories of the 1968 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty wherein
both nations promised to pursue nuclear disarmament in return for
agreement by the non-nuclear signatories to forgo development of
nuclear weapons, and
WHEREAS, the United States and the Soviet Union signed
the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963 within two months after President
Kennedy announced a unilateral moratorium on nuclear test, and
WHEREAS, the Soviet General Secretary has announced that
the Soviet Union is halting all nuclear testing between August 6 and
January 1, 1986, and that they will continue the test ban as long as
the United States participates in it, as a prelude to negotiations
leading to a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and
WHEREAS, it is the sense of this Council that halting
testing of nuclear weapons by both countries is a crucial first step
toward ending the arms race between the Soviet Union and the United
States and that ending this arms race is a prerequisite to restora-
tion of a healthy economy and improvement of the security of the
citizens of Azusa, as well as the other citizens of both countries:
NOW, THEREFORE, -BE IT"RESOLVED BY THE"CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF AZUSA AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Council urges President Reagan and the
government of the United States:
a. To agree to cease immediately the testing of all nuclear
warheads, providing the Soviets do not resume such
testing.
b. To enter into negotiations at once with the Soviet Union
on a treaty banning the testing of all nuclear weapons
by both countries for all time.
SECTION 2. The Council orders that copies of this Resolution
be forwarded to U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Soviet General Secretary
Mikhail Gorbachev, U.S. Senators Alan Cranston and Pete Wilson and
Congressperson Matthew G. Martinez.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this resolution.
1985.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 21st day of October,
MAYOR
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was
duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa, at a
regular meeting thereof, held on the 21st day of October 1985,
by the following vote of the Council:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS:
CRUZ, CAMARENA, LATTA, MOSES
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