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Hiroshima peace organizations establish committee to support 2010 NPT Review Conference

by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Staff Writer

Peace-related organizations, including the Hiroshima Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs and the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, established the “Hiroshima Executive Committee for Successful 2010 NPT Review Conference” on April 9. They plan to collect signatures that call for a treaty to ban and abolish nuclear weapons and submit these signatures to the NPT Review Conference, which will be held in New York in April 2010.

About 30 people from 19 organizations attended the inaugural meeting held in downtown Hiroshima. The participants selected six representatives for the executive committee, including Masanobu Omori, first representative director of the Hiroshima Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, and Kazushi Kaneko, chairman of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations.

The committee also worked out such campaign strategies as cooperating with local governments and neighborhood associations with the aim of collecting 200,000 signatures, and organizing a delegation for the 2010 review conference, to be dispatched by the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, that will be larger than the delegation of 47 which attended the last review conference in 2005.

(Originally published on April 10, 2009)

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