CTV( Japan) A Japanese group representing survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has stressed the importance of an upcoming review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT.
Nihon Hidankyo, also known as the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, will send eight delegates to the conference held every five years at UN headquarters in New York from late April to May.
In a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday, one of the delegates, Secretary General Hamasumi Jiro, said the previous two conferences failed to adopt final documents. He said the upcoming meeting will be an important one in which the treaty itself will be questioned.
Hamasumi said he wants to stress at the conference the inhumanity of nuclear weapons as the postwar generation continues to grow.
He is also scheduled to deliver a speech at a meeting of non-government organizations taking part in the NPT conference.
Hamasumi said he wants to ask countries to keep their promise to abolish nuclear weapons as agreed in the NPT. He said the UN Charter and international law have been disregarded recently, and that countries should work for an orderly world and end wars at once.
The delegates will leave Japan on April 24 and stay in New York for about a week. They plan to host a panel exhibition on the nuclear bombings at UN headquarters, as well as visit local schools.
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