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Mayors for Peace continues appeal for "Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol"

by Sakiko Masuda, Staff Writer

On June 24, Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba held a press conference at Hiroshima City Hall and spoke about Mayors for Peace, for which the mayor serves as president. Mr. Akiba, indicating that Mayors for Peace will continue to call for the international community to heed the "Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol," stressed that no policy change will be made with regard to the protocol's aim, which seeks the abolition of nuclear weapons by 2020.

Mayor Akiba shared his view on various prospects for the protocol, including its possible adoption as a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly and its discussion at the First Committee of the U.N. General Assembly (on nuclear disarmament), saying that certain modifications to the protocol are inevitable following the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference of this past May. Mayors for Peace had called for the protocol to be adopted at the review conference, but this hope was not realized.

The protocol will also be discussed at the "2020 Nuclear Abolition Hiroshima Conference" to be held on July 28 and 29, a gathering co-hosted by the City of Hiroshima and Mayors for Peace. Mayor Akiba added that he intends to urge the Japanese government to spearhead the effort to promote the protocol.

(Originally published on June 25, 2010)

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