World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates opens on November 12
Nov. 11, 2010
by Yumi Kanazaki, Staff Writer
“The 2010 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates” will open on November 12 at the Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima. During the three-day gathering, Nobel Peace Prize laureates will make the appeal, from Hiroshima to the world, for greater efforts to advance the abolition of nuclear weapons.
The summit will be attended by eight individual Nobel Peace Prize laureates including the 14th Dalai Lama, the supreme leader of Tibetan Buddhism, and former South African president Frederik Willem De Klerk. According to the summit’s secretariat in Rome, one of the organizers of the summit, Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union and one of the expected participants, may be absent due to health concerns.
On November 12 and 13, under the theme of “The Legacy of Hiroshima: A World Without Nuclear Weapons,” the participants, joined by experts in nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, will take up a variety of nuclear issues. Surrogates for Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader in Myanmar whose house arrest is expected to end soon, and Liu Xiabo, the imprisoned human rights activist in China and this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, are also slated to join the summit. Wuer Kaixi, a former student leader in the pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989, will stand in for Mr. Liu.
The application process for observing the sessions on November 12 and 13 has already closed.
On November 14, at 9:30 in the morning at Peace Memorial Park, the Nobel Peace Prize laureates attending the summit will, in turn, deliver remarks to the public. Later, Roberto Baggio, the Italian soccer star, and the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations will be presented with the “Peace Summit Award 2010” and a special award for the Hiroshima summit, respectively. After the awards ceremony, the Hiroshima Final Declaration will be issued and the event will conclude its three-day schedule. The City of Hiroshima calls on local citizens to join the summit on the final day.
The first World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, proposed by Mr. Gorbachev, was held in Rome in 1999. The gathering in Hiroshima will mark the 11th summit.
(Originally published on November 11, 2010)
“The 2010 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates” will open on November 12 at the Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima. During the three-day gathering, Nobel Peace Prize laureates will make the appeal, from Hiroshima to the world, for greater efforts to advance the abolition of nuclear weapons.
The summit will be attended by eight individual Nobel Peace Prize laureates including the 14th Dalai Lama, the supreme leader of Tibetan Buddhism, and former South African president Frederik Willem De Klerk. According to the summit’s secretariat in Rome, one of the organizers of the summit, Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union and one of the expected participants, may be absent due to health concerns.
On November 12 and 13, under the theme of “The Legacy of Hiroshima: A World Without Nuclear Weapons,” the participants, joined by experts in nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, will take up a variety of nuclear issues. Surrogates for Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader in Myanmar whose house arrest is expected to end soon, and Liu Xiabo, the imprisoned human rights activist in China and this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, are also slated to join the summit. Wuer Kaixi, a former student leader in the pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989, will stand in for Mr. Liu.
The application process for observing the sessions on November 12 and 13 has already closed.
On November 14, at 9:30 in the morning at Peace Memorial Park, the Nobel Peace Prize laureates attending the summit will, in turn, deliver remarks to the public. Later, Roberto Baggio, the Italian soccer star, and the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations will be presented with the “Peace Summit Award 2010” and a special award for the Hiroshima summit, respectively. After the awards ceremony, the Hiroshima Final Declaration will be issued and the event will conclude its three-day schedule. The City of Hiroshima calls on local citizens to join the summit on the final day.
The first World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, proposed by Mr. Gorbachev, was held in Rome in 1999. The gathering in Hiroshima will mark the 11th summit.
(Originally published on November 11, 2010)
