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2007 May 9 - 15 [ANTI-N-ARMS]

2007 World Conference against A & H Bombs schedule adopted

The World Conference against A & H Bombs Organizing Committee held its general meeting in Tokyo on May 10 and adopted the schedule for the 2007 World Conference.

Pointing to the intensifying contradictions of the hegemonistic political, economic, and military policy of the U.S. Bush administration as seen in the failure of the U.S. war in Iraq, Taka Hiroshi, the steering committee representative, expressed his hope that the upcoming World Conference will be an opportunity to send out a message of solidarity to the struggles of the people in the world wishing for a peace and just world without nuclear weapons.

Taka said that for the first time in the history of the World Conference, this year’s World Conference will be attended by government representatives of South American countries, including Venezuela, which is building a socially just nation in opposition to neo-liberalism.

Some participants in the meeting showed their determination to organize their World Conference delegations by linking up with the upcoming House of Councilors election campaign to make known to the public the danger of the Abe Cabinet’s attempt to turn Japan into a nation waging wars abroad with the U.S.

The meeting confirmed that in the World Conference a workshop will be set up to took at the struggles in opposition to the adverse revision of Article 9.

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The 2007 World Conference against A & H Bombs schedule:

International Meeting: Hiroshima, August 3-5
2007 World Conference against A & H Bombs - Hiroshima: August 5-6
2007 World Conference against A & H Bombs - Nagasaki: August 7-9
- Akahata, May 11, 2007