President-designate of NPT review conference to visit Hiroshima in early April Scheduled to be rearranged
Mar. 31, 2015
by Michiko Tanaka, Staff Writer
The president-designate of the 2015 review conference for the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty will visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki prior to the conference, which will be held at United Nations headquarters in New York. Ambassador Taous Feroukhi of Algeria will rearrange her schedule to permit her to visit the two cities in early April it was learned on March 25.
According to Japan’s Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Feroukhi has expressed a desire to have discussions in Tokyo before the April 27 start of the review conference and has proposed visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki during that trip. She was initially scheduled to come to Japan in late February, but this conflicted with consultations that will take place in Cairo, Egypt prior to an international conference on the denuclearization of the Middle East, so she has rearranged her schedule.
Ambassador Feroukhi currently serves as Director-General for Political Affairs and International Security at Algeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A representative of the City of Hiroshima’s Peace Promotion Division said, “Ambassador Feroukhi is in a position to have a major influence on the course of the conference, and having her learn firsthand about the reality of the destruction caused by the atomic bombings prior to the conference would be highly significant.” The city said that if Ambassador Feroukhi comes to Hiroshima it will arrange for her to tour the Peace Memorial Museum and meet with atomic bomb survivors.
(Originally published on March 26, 2015)
The president-designate of the 2015 review conference for the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty will visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki prior to the conference, which will be held at United Nations headquarters in New York. Ambassador Taous Feroukhi of Algeria will rearrange her schedule to permit her to visit the two cities in early April it was learned on March 25.
According to Japan’s Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Feroukhi has expressed a desire to have discussions in Tokyo before the April 27 start of the review conference and has proposed visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki during that trip. She was initially scheduled to come to Japan in late February, but this conflicted with consultations that will take place in Cairo, Egypt prior to an international conference on the denuclearization of the Middle East, so she has rearranged her schedule.
Ambassador Feroukhi currently serves as Director-General for Political Affairs and International Security at Algeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A representative of the City of Hiroshima’s Peace Promotion Division said, “Ambassador Feroukhi is in a position to have a major influence on the course of the conference, and having her learn firsthand about the reality of the destruction caused by the atomic bombings prior to the conference would be highly significant.” The city said that if Ambassador Feroukhi comes to Hiroshima it will arrange for her to tour the Peace Memorial Museum and meet with atomic bomb survivors.
(Originally published on March 26, 2015)
