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1. General Meeting of Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign association
2. Board of Directors of Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign association
3. Which are the Executive Cities
4. Mission of Mayors for Peace
5. What is the Mayors for Peace?
6. Who are the members?
7. How do I become a member?


1. General Meeting of Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign association

The General Meeting sets the strategic lines for the campaign association, including campaign plans and budget. Meets annually.

Members of the General meeting are the Mayors of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Florence, Ypres, Malakoff, Hannover, Manchester, Akron (Ohio) and former-Mayor of Laakdal. The three Executive Cities which were not present in Florence (Volgograd, Christchurch and Muntilupa) are invited to become a member of the General meeting. Christchurch has joined since.

Founding members are

	Tadatoshi Akiba Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan
	Tomihisa Taue Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan
	Leonardo Domeneci Mayor of Florence, Italy
	Luc Dehaene Mayor of Ypres, Belgium
	Stephan Weil Mayor of Hannover, Germany
	Catherine Margate Mayor of Malakoff, France
	Donald L. Plusquellic Mayor of Akron, USA
	Glynn Evans Lord Mayor of Manchester, UK
	Patrik Vankrunkelsven Ex-Mayor of Laakdal and Senator, Belgium
	Bob Parker Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand

2. Board of Directors of Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign association

Nominated November 22nd 2007. Deals with the management and meets at least twice a year. Members of the Board are the Mayors of Hiroshima, Florence, Ypres, Manchester, Akron (Ohio), the former-Mayor of Laakdal, the chief administrator of Malakoff and an interim-treasurer and civil servant from Ypres.

	Tadatoshi Akiba Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan
	Leonardo Domeneci Mayor of Florence, Italy
	Luc Dehaene Mayor of Ypres, Belgium
	Michel Cibot Chief Administrator of Malakoff, France
	Donald L. Plusquellic Mayor of Akron, USA
	Glynn Evans Lord Mayor of Manchester, UK
	Patrik Vankrunkelsven Ex-Mayor of Laakdal and Senator, Belgium
	Filip Deheegher Director Peace Department City of Ypres, Belgium

3. Which are the Executive Cities of Mayors for Peace

The Executive Cities meet every 2 years. The Executive Conference is authorized to make emergency decisions for the Organization in place of the General Conference with the exception of electing the President and the Vice-President.
It was the Executive Cities which decided to establish the 2020 Vision Campaign association so that it remains fully under control of Mayors for Peace..

President City
Hiroshima Japan

Vice President Cities
Nagasaki Japan
Hannover GERMANY
Malakoff FRANCE
Manchester UNITED KINGDOM
Muntinlupa PHILIPPINES
Volgograd RUSSIA
Akron U.S.A
Christchurch NEW ZEALAND
Florence ITALY
Laakdal BELGIUM

Map Executive cities Mayors for Peace

4. Mission
The Mayors for Peace is designed to build solidarity and facilitate coordination among the cities that support the Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. Its primary goal is to work internationally to raise consciousness regarding nuclear weapons abolition. It is also formally committed to pursuing lasting world peace by working to address starvation, poverty, refugee welfare, human rights abuses, environmental destruction, and other problems that threaten peaceful coexistence.

5. What is the Mayors for Peace?
In August 1945, atomic bombs instantaneously reduced the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to rubble, taking hundreds of thousands of precious lives. Today, more than fifty years after the war, thousands of citizens still suffer the devastating aftereffects of radiation and unfathomable emotional pain. To prevent any repetition of the A-bomb tragedy, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have continually sought to tell the world about the inhumane cruelty of nuclear weapons and have consistently urged that nuclear weapons be abolished.
On June 24, 1982, at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament held at UN Headquarters in New York, then Mayor Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima proposed a new Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. This proposal offered cities a way to transcend national borders and work together to press for nuclear abolition. Subsequently, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki called on mayors around the world to support this program.
The Mayors for Peace is composed of cities around the world that have formally expressed support for the program Mayor Araki announced in 1982. As of December 20, 2006, membership stood at 1,553 cities in 120 countries and regions. In March 1990, the Mayors Conference was officially registered as a UN NGO related to the Department of Public Information. In May 1991, it became a Category II NGO(currently called a NGO in "Special Consultative Status") registered with the Economic and Social Council.

6. Who are the members of Mayors for Peace?

Members will be invited to a General Conference every four years. You can find a full list of members of the Conference of the Mayors for Peace on the website of the Hiroshima secretariat.
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7. How do I become a member?

Only mayors can be members of Mayors for Peace.  This is accomplished by affiliating the city with Mayors for Peace.  Once affiliated, all succeeding mayors of that city are automatically members of Mayors for Peace, unless they declare otherwise.  Send a letter from the mayor or the head of the City Council to the Conference Secretariat stating that your city supports the Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and would like to join the Mayors for Peace. Shortly thereafter, the Secretariat will send by return mail a certificate confirming membership in the Mayors for Peace.

Membership in the Mayors for Peace involves no annual dues or any other financial obligation, though we appreciate a financial contribution.

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