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2012 April 11 - 17 [ANTI-N-ARMS]

A-bomb photo exhibition scheduled in Vienna

Anti-nuclear weapons organizations will hold a photo exhibition of atomic bombs at the end of this month in Vienna, the host city for a preparatory committee for the 2015 NPT Review Conference. Representatives of the organizations announced this on April 11.

The exhibition is organized by the Japan Council against A and H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo), the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Suffers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo), and the International Peace Bureau which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1910.

They plan to display photos showing the cities and the people in them affected by the nuclear bomb attacks at the Vienna International Center from April 30 to May 4 where the committee will take place, and at the Vienna University between May 2 and 4.

Twenty-two representatives of Japan Gensuikyo and Nihon Hidankyo will be there to promote the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons by narrating their nightmarish memories of living through the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, submitting gathered signatures to the committee, and visiting deputations from various countries to request their support and cooperation.

Representative of Nihon Hidankyo Iwasa Mikiso, who himself is an A-bomb survivor (Hibakusha), is one of the speakers at the NGO session of the committee.

Japan Gensuikyo Vice Secretary Tsuchida Yayoi said, “We will call on governments worldwide to fulfill the 2010 NPT agreement that resolved to ‘achieve the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons’, and start the negotiation process for a total nuclear weapon ban treaty.”