JCCU holds meeting in Tokyo, will send 93 delegates to NPT Review Conference
Mar. 5, 2015
by Kazuaki Yamamoto, Staff Writer
The Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union (JCCU) held a meeting in Tokyo on February 28, which brought together delegates who will be dispatched to the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). The conference is scheduled to open in New York in late April.
The delegation will consist of 93 members selected from 45 co-ops around the country. About 180 people attended the meeting and listened to Eiichi Honda, chief director of Co-op Kobe, who will serve as head of the delegation. Mr. Honda said, “In spite of their advancing age, atomic bomb survivors have been striving to share their experiences and convey the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, which is very important. We must give them our support.”
The delegation will visit New York between April 24 and May 1, and will lend support to some 50 survivors during this stay. While supporting an atomic bomb exhibition at United Nations headquarters in New York, organized by the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo), they will assist survivors when they relate their A-bomb accounts at local schools. They are also planning to request that representatives of national governments call for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
This will be the third JCCU delegation sent to the NPT Review Conference, following delegations sent to the conferences in 2005 and 2010. The organization has donated some 10 million yen, contributed by its members, to Nihon Hidankyo to help finance survivors’ activities in New York.
(Originally published on March 1, 2015)
The Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union (JCCU) held a meeting in Tokyo on February 28, which brought together delegates who will be dispatched to the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). The conference is scheduled to open in New York in late April.
The delegation will consist of 93 members selected from 45 co-ops around the country. About 180 people attended the meeting and listened to Eiichi Honda, chief director of Co-op Kobe, who will serve as head of the delegation. Mr. Honda said, “In spite of their advancing age, atomic bomb survivors have been striving to share their experiences and convey the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, which is very important. We must give them our support.”
The delegation will visit New York between April 24 and May 1, and will lend support to some 50 survivors during this stay. While supporting an atomic bomb exhibition at United Nations headquarters in New York, organized by the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo), they will assist survivors when they relate their A-bomb accounts at local schools. They are also planning to request that representatives of national governments call for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
This will be the third JCCU delegation sent to the NPT Review Conference, following delegations sent to the conferences in 2005 and 2010. The organization has donated some 10 million yen, contributed by its members, to Nihon Hidankyo to help finance survivors’ activities in New York.
(Originally published on March 1, 2015)
