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Prime Minister Hatoyama meets with "OB Summit" participants

by Kohei Okata, Staff Writer

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama met with Jean Chrétien, co-chairman of the InterAction Council ("OB Summit") and former prime minister of Canada, and Malcolm Fraser, honorary chairman of the same council and former prime minister of Australia, at the office of the prime minister on April 21. Mr. Hatoyama expressed his hope for nuclear disarmament to be furthered due to the fruitful results of the plenary meeting of the "OB Summit" which ended on April 20 in Hiroshima.

Yasuo Fukuda, one of the participants of the plenary meeting, was also present at the visit. Mr. Chrétien handed to Mr. Hatoyama the Final Communiqué, which contains 28 recommendations including the early realization of a nuclear weapons convention, together with the Hiroshima Declaration, and explained the contents of those documents.

Mr. Hatoyama commended the fact that the meeting focused on the abolition of nuclear weapons was held in the A-bombed city of Hiroshima. He reportedly made various other remarks, such as: "In order to realize a world without nuclear weapons, persistent effort is needed, not only by governments, but by researchers and civil society as well."

(Originally published on April 22, 2010)

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