PRESS RELEASES FROM THE RAINBOW WARRIOR CAMPAIGN

JUNE 13th - From Auckland harbour.
JUNE 13th - From off the New Zealand coast.
JUNE 13th - From Brussels
JUNE 14th - On board the Rainbow Warrior
JUNE 28th - Cook Islands government supports Rainbow Warrior Mission
JUNE 29th - French refuse Rainbow Warrior entry to public quay in Tahiti
JULY 3rd - Rainbow Warrior departs Papeete for Moruroa
JULY 4th - Greenpeace welcomes call by Mitterand for end to nuclear arms race
JULY 5th - French Warship tails Rainbow Warrior as it near Moruroa
JULY 7th - French Warship turns tail on Rainbow Warrior
JULY 7th - Rainbow Warrior Launches Appeal to President Chirac on eve of Arrival at Muroroa Test Site
JULY 8th - Veteran Greenpeace Vessel Vega joins Rainbow Warrior for Nuclear Test Site Protest
JULY 9th - Rainbow Warrior and Greenpeace inflatables enter French Moruroa Test Site
JULY 9th - French Commandos use tear gas to storm Rainbow Warrior.
JULY 10th - Rainbow Warrior released but damaged.
JULY 10th - Greenpeace inflatable still at large in test site. Rainbow Warrior being towed away under duress
JULY 10th - Greenpeace inflatable remains undetected near test site as Rainbow Warrior meets other protest yachts
JULY 11th - Rainbow Warrior sails for Tahiti for Bastille day; other vessels continue to monitor test site
JULY 13th - Greenpeace vessel S.V. Vega harassed by military helicopter.
JULY 14th - Greenpeace protestors on stilts disrupt French ambassador's Bastille Day party.
JULY 14th - France testing new nuclear weapons- Australia must upgrade protest.
JULY 14th - Open letter to commander French Pacific Forces condemning treatment of Rainbow Warrior and crew.
JULY 17th - Rainbow Warrior sails to Fiji to prepare flotilla
JULY 20th - MV Greenpeace to join test protest as pressure on France grows.
JULY 22nd - Mc Taggert and Greenpeace team to return to Vega.
JULY 22nd - L'equipe de McTaggart et Greenpeace retour sur la Vega.
JULY 26th - Communique de Presse. Essais nucleaires:Greenpeace et Chirac devant le Conseil d'etat.
JULY 26th - Nuclear Tests; Greenpeace to take Chirac to France's supreme court- Press conference in Paris on Thursday.
JULY 28th - Take your French Testing protest on Holiday: Greenpeace asks European Tourists.
JULY 28th - Rainbow Warrior arrives in Fiji to appeal for increased pressure on President Chirac as testing approaches
JULY 31st - Greenpeace says Conference on Disarmament last chance for nuclear test ban
AUGUST 1st - Scientists call for study of environmental impacts of french nuclear testing before resumption
AUGUST 2nd - Le Parisien opinion poll.
AUGUST 6th - From Hiroshima to Mururoa: Greenpeace calls for the end of the nuclear age
AUGUST 8th - Greenpeace hails New Zealand Decision to take France to the World Court over Nuclear Testing
AUGUST 9th - Greenpeace calls on nations to mark 50th anniversary of Nagasaki bombing by ending nuclear testing and plutonium production
AUGUST 14th - Update from the South Pacific
AUGUST 18th - Greenpeace calls for European protest flotilla to Paris
AUGUST 18th - The ANC strongly condemns the resumption of nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean
AUGUST 19th - Pacific Protest Flotilla - the ships so far.
AUGUST 21st - Greenpeace applauds New Zealand court case against France.
AUGUST 23rd - Protest at French testing hots up as Rainbow Warrior arrives in Tahiti.
AUGUST 27th - Greenpeace vessels converge for protest at Moruroa.
AUGUST 29th - Jaques Chirac ignores 3 million signatures against French Testing: Injunction against Greenpeace protest ship.
AUGUST 30th - French police ban entire Greenpeace flotilla from Paris.
AUGUST 30th - Greenpeace reconnaisance flight spots test rig in Moruroa.
AUGUST 31st - US Congressmen and Tahitian Leaders join the Rainbow Warrior in protest at Moruroa.
SEPTEMBER 1ST - French police block Greenpeace delivery of petitions to Chirac.
SEPTEMBER 1ST - Greenpeace sends 10 small boats into 12-mile exclusion zone as French prepare to carry out first nuclear test Mururoa
SEPTEMBER 1ST - Greenpeace divers get under test monitoring platform to stop french nuclear test.
SEPTEMBER 1ST - France siezes second Greenpeace vessel, Divers arrested, Rainbow Warrior communications equipment smashed
SEPTEMBER 2ND - Twenty two Greenpeace activists released by French in Tahiti
SEPTEMBER 2ND - Free the Rainbow warrior call by Greenpeace.