 Gensuikyo urges nuclear weapon states to abandon arsenals The Japan Council against A and H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) on October 13 made representations to nuclear weapons possessing countries, calling on them to fulfill the promise they made in the 2000 NPT Review Conference to eliminate their nuclear weapons. Japan Gensuikyo representatives visited the embassies of nuclear-weapons states, the U.S., Britain, Russia, and China, and the Cuban Embassy in Tokyo to deliver the "2004 World Conference against A and H Bombs Declaration of the International Meeting," the "Letter to All Governments of the World" adopted in the latest World Conference in Nagasaki, and signatures of the "Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Now!" They called on the governments with nuclear weapons not to use, threaten to use, or develop any type of nuclear weapons and to immediately draw up plans in order to take concrete steps to fulfill their promise. Japan Gensuikyo will make representations to the French Embassy in Tokyo, another nuclear power, on October 15. (end) |