Japan submitted to the UN General Assembly draft resolution on the elimination of nuclear weapons – Kommersant

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking at a ceremony in Nagasaki memory of victims of the atomic bombing of the city, said that his country “will spare no effort to ensure the creation of a world without nuclear weapons.” He promised that Japan will introduce the country in the upcoming September 70 th session of the UN General Assembly a new draft resolution on the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Also at the ceremony, the mayor of Nagasaki Tomihisa Taue urged President Barack Obama and leaders of other nuclear powers to visit places of the atomic bombings. “I appeal to President Obama and the leaders of other states, visit Nagasaki and Hiroshima, to see for yourself what happened 70 years ago. You must make every effort to ensure that the world did not have nuclear weapons “, – he quotes the words of Mr. Taue Tass.

As reported by” Kommersant “in Nagasaki held events dedicated to the 70 Anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city. A memorial ceremony was held with the participation of Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe and guests from more than seventy countries. Exactly at 11:02 (5:02 Moscow time) – the exact time when detonated over Nagasaki atomic bomb capacity of 21 kilotons – participants of the ceremony honored the memory of victims minute of silence. By the Peace Monument, wreaths were laid, held a symbolic ritual of “presentation to the water,” the victims of the bombing, who, dying, asked to drink. The wooden bucket of clean spring water was delivered to the monument of the world.

The commemorative events on the occasion of the “Day of Hiroshima”, which is celebrated by the international community as the World Day for the prohibition of nuclear weapons, 6 August was attended by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the US ambassador in Tokyo, Caroline Kennedy, US Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller, the high representative of the UN Secretary General for Disarmament Kim Won-soo, the representatives of the Japanese authorities and diplomats from 100 foreign countries . This was the largest number of participants in the history of the ceremony.