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2010 April 14 - 20 [JCP]

JCP Shii to visit U.S. to attend NPT Review Conference

He will also take part in an international action bu world grass-roots anti-nuclear peace organizations held on May 2, the eve of the NPT Review Conference.

In a press conference on April 20, Shii said, “Thee 2010 NPT Review Conference will be held in the midst of the growing demand for a world without nuclear weapons. This is of historic importance.” He said that he hopes that the conference will result in a significant step toward the elimination of nuclear weapons by reconfirming the agreement in the 2000 NPT Review Conference in which the parties agreed to an “unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon states to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals” and “engagement as soon as appropriate of all the nuclear-weapons States in the process leading to the total elimination of their nuclear weapons.”

The JCP chair stressed that it is imperative to start an international negotiation with the elimination of nuclear weapons as the primary goal in addition to partial nuclear disarmament measures, He expressed his determination to “make his utmost effort to convey the voices of the people of Japan, the only A-bombed country,”

It is the first tome for a JCP head to visit the United States.
- Akahata, April 21, 2010