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Paraguay’s foreign minister visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and vows to work for nuclear abolition

by Hiroaki Watanabe, Staff Writer

On March 25, the foreign minister of Paraguay, Eladio Loizaga, 67, visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Naka Ward. Learning about the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, Mr. Loizaga pledged to make efforts to help eliminate nuclear weapons from the world.

At the Peace Memorial Museum, Mr. Loizaga listened to the explanations offered by the museum’s deputy director, Noriyuki Masuda, as he gazed intently at a panoramic model of the burnt-out ruins of the city center, a charred lunchbox, and a white wall stained with the “black rain” that fell in the aftermath of the bombing. Mr. Loizaga wrote in the museum guest book in Spanish that such a tragedy must never be repeated. After his visit to the museum, Mr. Loizaga toured the Peace Memorial Park and laid flowers at the Cenotaph for the Atomic Bomb Victims.

Mr. Loizaga arrived in Japan on March 22 at the invitation of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This was his first visit to the city of Hiroshima.

(Originally published on March 26, 2016)

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