THE NETHERLANDS: GREENPEACE COORDINATOR STEPHANIE MILLS SPEAKS AT PRESS CONFERENCE IN AMSTERDAM

Record ID: 325293

  • Title: THE NETHERLANDS: GREENPEACE COORDINATOR STEPHANIE MILLS SPEAKS AT PRESS CONFERENCE IN AMSTERDAM
  • Date: 8th September 1995
  • Summary: AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (SEPTEMBER 8, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV EXTERIOR OF GREENPEACE HEADQUARTERS, STOP NUCLEAR TESTING BANNER 0.06 2. SLV INTERIOR PRESS CONFERENCE, GREENPEACE COORDINATOR STEPHANIE MILLS AT TABLE 0.11 3. SCU MILLS SPEAKING (ENGLISH) / SV MEDIA (5 SHOTS) 2.21 4. CU BANNER 'STOP NUCLEAR TESTING' 2.29
  • Embargoed: 23rd September 1995 13:00
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  • Location: AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
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  • Country: Netherlands
  • Reuters ID: LVA7FPIE5T84B5FKDPEBN7GU3UU0
  • Story Text: Greenpeace coordinator Stephanie Mills, who led the Rainbow Warrior protests at the Mururoa Atoll, on Friday (September 8) spoke of her anger and frustration on hearing that the first nuclear test had taken place on her return to Amsterdam.

    Earlier in the day Mills and fellow Greenpeace environmental activists, Derek Nicholls and Philip Pupka, and MV Greenpeace captain Pieter Schwartz arrived at Le Bourget Airport, Paris, having been deported by French military officials to New Zealand, Amsterdam and Germany.

    Describing her ordeal at a news conference at the international headquarters of Greenpeace in Amsterdam, she said that though frustrated she was gratified by the focus of international attention on the nuclear testing and disarmament issues.

    She said that they were held under "military rule" by the French after they boarded the ship four miles inside the 12-mile exclusion zone around the atoll on September 1.

    Mills said the campaign would not be a success until the tests ended and the French government stopped what she called its campaign of rhetoric.


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