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Kyodo Jan 21, 2021
Atomic bomb survivors in Japan on Thursday urged the administration of new U.S. President Joe Biden to join a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons that will take effect the following day.
“We earnestly call for (U.S.) participation in the treaty,” said Michiko Kodama, 82, assistant secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations at a Tokyo press conference.
A-bomb survivors urge Biden gov t to join U.N. nuke ban treaty
Atomic bomb survivors in Japan on Thursday urged the new U.S. administration of U.S. President Joe Biden to join a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons that will take effect the following day. We earnestly call for (U.S.) participation in the treaty, said Michiko Kodama, 82, assistant secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations at a Tokyo press conference.
Screenshot taken on Jan. 21, 2021, shows Michiko Kodama, assistant secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, speaking at a press conference in Tokyo. (Kyodo)
Jan 20, 2021
OSAKA – On Friday, the United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will enter into force. The agreement, ratified last October, is the world’s most ambitious treaty on nuclear weapons yet 86 nations have signed it and 51 state parties have ratified it. But nuclear weapons states, as well as Japan, have refused to sign the treaty, preferring nuclear arms control treaties that they hope will eventually lead to the elimination of all weapons.
What are the treaty’s main obligations?
State parties that join the treaty must agree not to develop, test, produce, acquire, transfer, possess, stockpile or threaten to use nuclear weapons. The treaty also specifically prohibits the deployment of nuclear weapons on national territory and forbids providing assistance to any other state that tries to carry out any of the above activities.
13 million sign petition urging all nations to ban nuclear weapons, http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14106594, By RYO SASAKI/ Staff Writer, January 14, 2021 A petition by an organization of survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki urging all nations to sign the U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons has garnered a whopping 13.7 million signatures. The Appeal…