Mayor Erich Raff has again this year hoisted the flag of the global Mayors for Peace in front of the town hall on Hauptstrasse.
Fürstenfeldbruck - The city has been a member for several years.
The flag symbolizes the network's commitment to a peaceful world without nuclear weapons.
In Fürstenfeldbruck, the flag will also hang on the Hiroshima Memorial Day on August 6th.
This year, the German Mayors for Peace are celebrating a double anniversary on Flag Day: 25 years ago, on July 8, 1996, the International Court of Justice in The Hague published a legal opinion and found that the threat of the use and use of nuclear weapons generally violated international law . There is an obligation under international law to "conduct negotiations in good faith and bring them to a conclusion that lead to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control." Age.
To commemorate this groundbreaking report, the state capital of Hanover, as Vice President of the Mayors for Peace, introduced Flag Day in Germany exactly ten years ago.
400 cities are now taking part and on July 8th they will be flying their flags against nuclear weapons.
Numerous peace initiatives accompany this day with a variety of activities.
This year, the focus of Flag Day is the nuclear weapons ban treaty that came into force in January 2021.
The nuclear powers have not signed the treaty, and Germany has not yet acceded to the prohibition treaty either.
The Mayors for Peace therefore appealed to their respective states around the world to sign the nuclear weapons ban treaty, including in Germany on Flag Day.
"We want to send a visible signal against nuclear weapons of mass destruction," says Mayor Erich Raff. The nuclear powers still have an estimated 13,080 nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons arsenals are being modernized, and more weapons than before are kept ready for use.
This threat must come to an end.
“That is why we are campaigning for the abolition of nuclear weapons on Flag Day.
We want Germany to join the nuclear weapons ban treaty, ”said the Fürstenfeldbruck town hall chief.
On the way there, Germany should take part as an observer in the first conference of the parties to the nuclear weapons ban treaty in early 2022.