Prime Minister Kishida announces Japan’s participation in International Conference on Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons
Jun. 4, 2022
by Junya Kuchimoto, Staff Writer
At the budget committee meeting in Japan’s House of Representatives (lower house of the Diet) on June 3, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, representing Hiroshima Prefecture’s District No. 1, explained that he would send a government delegation to the International Conference on Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons scheduled to be held in Vienna, Austria, on June 20. He said, “It is important to take part in the discussion as the only nation in the world to have experienced nuclear attacks in wartime and as a government promoting understanding of the reality of the atomic bombings for the international community.”
Mr. Kishida made the statement in response to Kozo Akino of Komeito at the budget committee meeting. Mr. Kishida touched on Japan’s dispatches of delegations to the past three International Conferences on Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, held between 2013 and 2014, and stressed, “It is hoped that the discussions to date will be reinvigorated and new study results will be shared among experts from various nations.”
According to a related source, the Japanese government will dispatch a delegation composed of two A-bomb survivors and the director of the Foreign Ministry’s Arms Control and Disarmament Division, among others. The International Conference on Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, which focuses on devastation wrought by the use of nuclear weapons, prompted the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Mr. Kishida has decided that Japan will not participate in the first meeting of State Parties to the TPNW as an observer against the wishes of A-bomb survivors. The first meeting of the State parties to the TPNW will begin on June 21, the day after the international conference, and end on June 23.
(Originally published on June 4, 2022)
At the budget committee meeting in Japan’s House of Representatives (lower house of the Diet) on June 3, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, representing Hiroshima Prefecture’s District No. 1, explained that he would send a government delegation to the International Conference on Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons scheduled to be held in Vienna, Austria, on June 20. He said, “It is important to take part in the discussion as the only nation in the world to have experienced nuclear attacks in wartime and as a government promoting understanding of the reality of the atomic bombings for the international community.”
Mr. Kishida made the statement in response to Kozo Akino of Komeito at the budget committee meeting. Mr. Kishida touched on Japan’s dispatches of delegations to the past three International Conferences on Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, held between 2013 and 2014, and stressed, “It is hoped that the discussions to date will be reinvigorated and new study results will be shared among experts from various nations.”
According to a related source, the Japanese government will dispatch a delegation composed of two A-bomb survivors and the director of the Foreign Ministry’s Arms Control and Disarmament Division, among others. The International Conference on Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, which focuses on devastation wrought by the use of nuclear weapons, prompted the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Mr. Kishida has decided that Japan will not participate in the first meeting of State Parties to the TPNW as an observer against the wishes of A-bomb survivors. The first meeting of the State parties to the TPNW will begin on June 21, the day after the international conference, and end on June 23.
(Originally published on June 4, 2022)
