 Japan Gensuikyo submits 5,000,000 anti-nuclear signatures to NPT Review Conference The Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) on May 4 submitted more than five million signatures calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons to NPT Review Conference Chair Sˇrgio Duarte at the General Assembly Hall of the U.N. in New York. Gensuikyo Secretary-General Takakusagi (Taka) Hiroshi stated that the total number of signatures submitted to the Review Conference was 5,038,108 and that the signers included 935 prefectural governors and mayors and 556 local assembly chairpersons, representing about 50 percent of all Japanese local governments. On behalf of all the signatories, Taka urged the nuclear weapons states to set out to implement their obligation to abolish nuclear weapons, and called on all governments to act to conclude an international treaty totally banning and eliminating nuclear weapons. Chair Duarte encouraged Gensuikyo representatives to continue to make efforts to establish a nuclear-free world in cooperation with their own government. - Akahata May 7, 2005 |