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GENESEO â At the corner of Main and South Street in Geneseo about a dozen people gathered Friday for a peaceful demonstration organized by the Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace to mark the enactment of a UN treaty banning nuclear weapons.
âToday is the entry into the prohibition into the end of nuclear weapons,â said organizer Holly Adams of Hunt, a member of the GVCP.
At midnight Jan. 21 the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons went into effect. The treaty establishes in international law a categorical ban on nuclear weapons, 75 years after their development and first use. The treaty does not legally apply to the United States as the country has not yet signed or ratified the treaty.
GENESEO – Members of Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace are planning a peaceful demonstration Jan. 22 to mark a new United Nations treaty they hope will spell the beginning of