Younger generation has the power to push for abolition

International Symposium for Peace/ The Road to the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons: Younger generation has the power to push for abolition

2009/08/08

Two young peace campaigners talked to each other ahead of the panel discussion. Patrick Coffey has been petitioning mayors in the United States to join the Mayors for Peace movement led by the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Haruka Katarao, a Hiroshima native, was involved in an exchange program bringing together youth from India and Pakistan when she was a senior high school student.

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200908080050.html

At the 7th General Conference of the Mayors for Peace

Nagasaki, 8 August 2009

It aims at nuclear abolition, domestic and foreign local administrative chiefs participate, and UNGA President Mr, d'Escoto under the visit to Japan greets it as a guest in the peace mayor conference general meeting held in Nagasaki City on the eighth. ｢A clear enforcement project is important to aim at nuclear abolition. As for Japan, I want you to demonstrate the lead. ｣It appealed. Chairperson Mr,　d’Esuｃoto　inspected the center stone where atomic bomb was dropped and the atomic bomb museum in the city on this day. It was described at a interview, "The desire to peace and the nuclear abolition achievement has deepened more by having visited the town in this sublime Nagasaki for the first time".

H.E. Mr. Miguel d'Escoto 's Speach at Nagasaki.

http://www.un.org/ga/president/63/statements/Nagasaki80809.shtml

http://www.mayorsforpeace.org/english/nagasaki_appeal.pdf

Hiroshima anniversary time to renew commitment to disarm – top UN officials

Hiroshima Peace Memorial

6 August 2009 – The 64th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima serves not only as a reminder of the destruction wrought by nuclear weapons but as a time to renew the global commitment to rid the world of this deadly scourge, top United Nations officials said today.

Some say the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons is impossible, and that security can be achieved only by acquiring nuclear weapons, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony held in Japan.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31699

A Flash of Memory by Issei Miyake

IN April, President Obama pledged to seek peace and security in a world without nuclear weapons. He called for not simply a reduction, but elimination. His words awakened something buried deeply within me, something about which I have until now been reluctant to discuss.

I realized that I have, perhaps now more than ever, a personal and moral responsibility to speak out as one who survived what Mr. Obama called the “flash of light.”

On Aug. 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on my hometown, Hiroshima. I was there, and only 7 years old.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/opinion/14miyake.html

Obama, Medvedev Sign Nuclear Understanding

President Obama will spend three days in Russia meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and other policy officials to help negotiate the number of nuclear arsenals, promote democracy and discuss human rights issues.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/07/06/GA2009070602161.html?wpisrc=newsletter

New TV program on NHK " No More HIBAKUSHA" , August 15.

2009- A revolutionary year in which the world turned largely towards the elimenation of nuclear weapons.

This program connects the bomb site of HIroshima and Nagasaki

with the nuclear hazard victims(Hibakusha) of the world, delivering hope for eliminating nuclear weapons to the people of the world and the international society.

No More Hibakusha

http://www.nhk.or.jp/no-more-hibakusha/index_en.html

Nuclear Threat

http://www.nhk.or.jp/no-more-hibakusha/index_en.html#/threat/

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Obama's Speech on US-Russia Relations

Filed at 7:46 a.m. ET

Text of President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday at the New Economic School graduation in Moscow, as provided by the White House:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/world/europe/07prexy.html?_r=5&th&emc=th