ALL SNP and Green politicians at Holyrood have now signed a global petition calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
The Hibakusha Appeal calls on governments to abolish nuclear weapons and to adopt the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on humanitarian grounds.
In addition to the 68 MSPs, more than 9.4 million people from around the world have signed the document.
The First Minister gave her backing in 2016 when she met two Hiroshima survivors.
Bill Kidd, convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group on Nuclear Disarmament, led the drive at Holyrood.
The SNP MSP said: “The Hibakusha Appeal is a serious statement to nuclear power states that these weapons are immoral.
“As the harrowing testimonies of survivors of the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 shows, the human impact of these weapons is terrible. It must never be repeated.
“That is why it is so important that there is no place for nuclear weapons in an independent Scotland.”
The Hibakusha Appeal was presented to the United Nations last week, during a meeting in New York of the UN committee responsible for the treaty.
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