Orange City Council has been urged to join 27 other councils in Australia in backing an appeal to stop nuclear weapons.
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Cr Stephen Nugent is proposing council endorse The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Cities Appeal and urge the federal government to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by the United Nations in 2017.
It comes as the 75th anniversaries on August 6 and 9 of the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are acknowledged this week.
Cr Nugent has indicated he would move a notice of motion seeking support for a nuclear-free treaty.
He said council support for the appeal and treaty would be consistent with council's previous declaration of Orange as a nuclear free zone.
Cr Nugent said it was also in keeping with council's Sister City Program.
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