{"id":3205,"date":"2016-06-01T10:06:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T10:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationaldiplomat.com\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2016-06-01T10:06:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T10:06:08","slug":"3205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=3205","title":{"rendered":"DOUGLAS IN ADVOCATE OF NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationaldiplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/300_M_DOUGLAS-18VL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3207\" src=\"http:\/\/internationaldiplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/300_M_DOUGLAS-18VL-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Disarmament\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationaldiplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/300_M_DOUGLAS-21VL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.internationaldiplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/300_M_DOUGLAS-21VL-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Disarmament\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/internationaldiplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/300_M_DOUGLAS-53VL-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3209\" src=\"http:\/\/internationaldiplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/300_M_DOUGLAS-53VL-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Disarmament\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Photos: ActionPress\/PM Virot<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Douglas is an advocate of nuclear disarmament, a supporter of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, sits on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and is an honorary Board Member of the anti-war grant-making foundation Ploughshares Fund. In 1998, he was appointed UN Messenger of Peace by Secretary-General Kofi Annan.[65] He is a notable Democrat and has donated money to Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, and Al Franken.[66] He has been a major supporter of gun control since John Lennon was murdered in 1980.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2006, he was a featured speaker in a public service campaign sponsored by a UN conference to focus attention on trade of illicit arms, especially of small arms and light weapons. Douglas made several appearances and offered his opinions:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conference is an opportunity for UN member states to build on the Program of Action and to encourage countries to strengthen their laws on the illicit trade, \u2026 an issue that affects us all \u2026 [and] while owning guns is a legal right in most countries, the illegal trade in guns continues to fuel conflict, crime and violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos: ActionPress\/PM Virot Douglas is an advocate of nuclear disarmament, a supporter of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, sits on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and is an honorary Board Member of the anti-war grant-making foundation Ploughshares Fund. In 1998, he was appointed UN Messenger of Peace by Secretary-General Kofi Annan.[65] He is<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=3205\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[536,539,2078],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diplomatic-pouch","category-english","category-geneva-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}