Japanese Civil Society Calls for Immediate Action for Nuclear Abolition

Media Release

Statement from Symposium in Hiroshima

Civil society groups meeting in Hiroshima on October 18th issued a statement calling for immediate action for nuclear disarmament.

The symposium, entitled "Towards a World Without Nuclear Weapons: Now is the time to act!", coincided with the fourth meeting of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament (ICNND) now being held in Hiroshima.

The statement included recommendations under four headings "To the International Community", "To the ICNND", "To the Japanese Government", "To Japanese Civil Society". It stressed the importance of taking concrete steps for the abolition of nuclear weapons at the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, which will be held in New York in May 2010, and called upon all countries, NPT members and non-NPT members, to begin negotiations forthwith on a Nuclear Weapons Convention to comprehensively outlaw and eliminate nuclear weapons.

The symposium was organized by the ICNND Japan NGO Network and a Hiroshima-based coordinating committee comprised of a broad range of Hiroshima civil society groups. It was co-organized by the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation and was supported by Hiroshima City.

See leaflet on the following URL for details of the event:.

For more information see the following links:
http://icnndngojapan.wordpress.com/
http://www.cnic.jp/english/topics/proliferation/campaign/icnnd/icnnd.html

Contacts
Akira Kawasaki (Peace Boat, ICNND NGO Advisor) 81-(0)3-3363-7561
Keiko Nakamura (Peace Depot, ICNND Japan NGO Network Secretariat) 81- (0)45-563-5101

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