Hiroshima calls on Obama to attend World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
Sep. 28, 2010
by Yumi Kanazaki, Staff Writer
On September 27, the City of Hiroshima announced that it has sent a letter calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to attend "The 2010 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates," to be held in the city in November. The letter was jointly signed by four people on behalf of the local council that is supporting and promoting the summit. The council is comprised of Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, the Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and UNITAR Hiroshima.
The four who signed the letter include Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, who serves as chairman of the council, Hiroshima Governor Hidehiko Yuzaki, Tetsuya Ota, president of the Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Alexander Mejia, director of the Hiroshima office of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). The letter is being sent to the White House via the U.S. Embassy in Japan.
The letter stresses that the 2.86 million people in Hiroshima Prefecture, including those in the city of Hiroshima, hold high hopes that Mr. Obama will attend the summit. The letter concludes with the appeal that the president convey a strengthened resolve for nuclear abolition from Hiroshima to the world.
The summit, to be held from November 12 to 14, will be attended by nine Nobel Peace Prize laureates including the 14th Dalai Lama, the supreme leader of Tibetan Buddhism, and Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union. According to the summit's secretariat in Rome, one of the organizers of the gathering, a statement requesting Mr. Obama's attendance at the meeting, which was jointly signed by five Nobel Peace Prize laureates, including Mr. Gorbachev, was also sent this past August. The secretariat has not yet received a reply.
(Originally published on September 28, 2010)
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On September 27, the City of Hiroshima announced that it has sent a letter calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to attend "The 2010 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates," to be held in the city in November. The letter was jointly signed by four people on behalf of the local council that is supporting and promoting the summit. The council is comprised of Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, the Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and UNITAR Hiroshima.
The four who signed the letter include Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, who serves as chairman of the council, Hiroshima Governor Hidehiko Yuzaki, Tetsuya Ota, president of the Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Alexander Mejia, director of the Hiroshima office of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). The letter is being sent to the White House via the U.S. Embassy in Japan.
The letter stresses that the 2.86 million people in Hiroshima Prefecture, including those in the city of Hiroshima, hold high hopes that Mr. Obama will attend the summit. The letter concludes with the appeal that the president convey a strengthened resolve for nuclear abolition from Hiroshima to the world.
The summit, to be held from November 12 to 14, will be attended by nine Nobel Peace Prize laureates including the 14th Dalai Lama, the supreme leader of Tibetan Buddhism, and Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union. According to the summit's secretariat in Rome, one of the organizers of the gathering, a statement requesting Mr. Obama's attendance at the meeting, which was jointly signed by five Nobel Peace Prize laureates, including Mr. Gorbachev, was also sent this past August. The secretariat has not yet received a reply.
(Originally published on September 28, 2010)
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