A NUCLEAR disarmament conference will be told that weapons of mass destruction have "no place" in Scotland.

A NUCLEAR disarmament conference will be told that weapons of mass destruction have "no place" in Scotland.

SNP MSP and anti-nuclear weapons campaigner, Bill Kidd, is to deliver the message from Scotland??s First Minister when he addresses the 3rd Global Conference on the Humanitarian Dimension of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna.

In his speech Mr Kidd will relay the ??wholehearted support?? of the Scottish Government for the aims of the conference and highlight the risks nuclear weapons, adding that ??the MoD has been forced to admit to 261 nuclear safety events in the last ten years.??

Mr Kidd said: ??The Westminster Government may think it is acceptable to dump their supply of nuclear weapons in Scotland, but the message from Scotland??s Government, Scotland??s Parliament and Scotland??s people is that weapons of mass destruction have no place here.

"In the week where we learnt that 60 per cent of Westminster's cuts are still to be inflicted, there is surely no justification for wasting billions on nuclear weapons

??What has been particularly disappointing is the fact that a sustained pressure campaign was required before the UK agreed to even send a delegation to this conference.

??Nuclear weapons are an obscenity, but if a country has chosen to possess them then they simply cannot hide from the humanitarian consequences that come with the weapons."