Mayors for Peace to top 4,000 members
Jun. 30, 2010
by Sakiko Masuda, Staff Writer
On June 29, it was learned that the number of member cities of Mayors for Peace, for which Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba serves as president, will exceed 4,000 on July 1. The number of member cities will have increased by over a thousand since the same time last year, when the number stood at 2,963. It is thought that cities in support of Mayors for Peace, which has been advocating the elimination of nuclear weapons by 2020, increased rapidly in the run-up to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, held in May.
Applicants to Mayors for Peace are added as new members on the first day of the month following their applications, and the organization had 3,965 member cities as of June 1. The city of Fukuoka and the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, among other cities, will join the organization on July 1. The city of Bitola in Macedonia will, as the first member from that nation, also join the organization.
Mayors for Peace fell short of its goal of 5,000 member nations by the start of the NPT Review Conference. However, Manabu Iwasaki, division director of the Mayors for Peace Secretariat, thinks that "The NPT Review Conference has generated momentum for Mayors for Peace, and A-bomb survivors' visits to local governments nationwide, calling for support for the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, [which presents a road map for nuclear abolition by 2020,] have also proven effective."
(Originally published on June 30, 2010)
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On June 29, it was learned that the number of member cities of Mayors for Peace, for which Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba serves as president, will exceed 4,000 on July 1. The number of member cities will have increased by over a thousand since the same time last year, when the number stood at 2,963. It is thought that cities in support of Mayors for Peace, which has been advocating the elimination of nuclear weapons by 2020, increased rapidly in the run-up to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, held in May.
Applicants to Mayors for Peace are added as new members on the first day of the month following their applications, and the organization had 3,965 member cities as of June 1. The city of Fukuoka and the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, among other cities, will join the organization on July 1. The city of Bitola in Macedonia will, as the first member from that nation, also join the organization.
Mayors for Peace fell short of its goal of 5,000 member nations by the start of the NPT Review Conference. However, Manabu Iwasaki, division director of the Mayors for Peace Secretariat, thinks that "The NPT Review Conference has generated momentum for Mayors for Peace, and A-bomb survivors' visits to local governments nationwide, calling for support for the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, [which presents a road map for nuclear abolition by 2020,] have also proven effective."
(Originally published on June 30, 2010)
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