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Greetings to the World Council of Churches from Patriarch Kirill on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the WCC

Following up on their earlier calls for nuclear disarmament, four global, regional and national ecumenical organizations told leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union and Russia that NATO and its member states should seize the opportunity of the Defence and Deterrence Review in 2011 to take bold steps and end the anachronistic policy of nuclear sharing including the deployment of United States tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.

The WCC general secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, and interim general secretary of CEC, Rev. Prof. Dr Viorel Ionita, expressed shock and sadness in a letter of condolence to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia concerning the bombing at the Domodedovo Airport on 24 January 2011.

Statement on the ratification by the US Senate of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the United States and Russia

The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit's comment on the signing of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) by Presidents Medvedev and Obama in Prague, 8 April 2010.

Condolence letter by WCC general secretary Olav Fykse Tveit to the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kyrill following the terrorist attacks in Moscow on 29 March 2010.

Open letter to heads of states and governments involved in the Six-Party Talks related to issues on the Korean peninsula.

"Now is the time to continue the trend" toward nuclear disarmament, four global, regional and national ecumenical organizations told leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union and Russia. "The present opportunity must be transformed into conclusive actions."

Public statement on the Russia-United States nuclear agreement

Condolence letter to His Holiness Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia