 An international meeting was held in Lyon, France on September 24–25 1983, where two hundred people assembled.Acknowledging the power that fasting had shown, the gathering undertook to pursue the same aims; the moral pressure on governments to respond to the Fast's appeals for greater justice in this shared world would be maintained until a reversal in the escalation of nuclear weapons occurs, and real attempts to confront the plight of the world's hungry are made.Alan Burns, from the Scottish support group, agreed to act as international coordinator to maintain communications between participating countries.