Annual antinuclear meetings start in Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA, Aug. 2 Kyodo - A Japanese antinuclear group began in Hiroshima on Wednesday a series of annual conferences which will end Aug. 9 in Nagasaki to discuss how to eliminate nuclear weapons.
About 300 people, including 78 representatives from 19 countries, attended the meeting organized by the Japan Council Against A and H Bombs (Gensuikyo) which is backed by the opposition Japanese Communist Party.
Andreas Toupadakis, a guest speaker who was formerly involved in maintaining nuclear weapons at the U.S. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, said, ''Let us start talking about solutions and enact them, rather than just describing problems.''
Besides taking part in several kinds of committees from Thursday, the participants will tour the western Japan city which was destroyed by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945 before the schedule in Hiroshima ends Sunday.
In Nagasaki, the participants will also hold a similar two-day meeting Aug. 8 and 9.
==Kyodo
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