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A-bomb survivors’ organizations urge government to specify path to eliminate nuclear weapons

by Kohei Okata, Staff Writer

In the run-up to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations urged the Japanese government to specify a concrete path to the elimination of nuclear weapons, including the prompt conclusion of a nuclear weapons convention, on April 22.

The petition addressed to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama stresses the wish for the abolition of nuclear weapons by the A-bomb survivors, who have long appealed for the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to never be repeated. More concretely, it calls on the government to urge states around the world to start taking action to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons by the nuclear weapons states, an agreement made at the 2000 NPT Review Conference, and to conclude a nuclear weapons convention.

Terumi Tanaka, secretary general of the confederation, and others visited the Cabinet Office to submit the petition. The petition has been also sent to state leaders of the NPT signatories through their embassies in Japan.

(Originally published on April 23, 2010)

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