VIENNA Japan, the only country that experienced an atomic bombing, was notably absent as the first meeting of parties to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons opened here on June 21.
A survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing in Nagasaki on June 20 appealed for the understanding of the inhumanity of nuclear weapons at an international conference in Vienna, ahead of the first meeting under a U.N. treaty to ban such arms.
The Japanese government has decided not to join the first meeting of parties to a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons to be held in Vienna next week, officials say, despite high expectations for its attendance as the only nation that has suffered atomic bombings.
WITH great hope, the Muslim Youth Movement Malaysia (Abim) along with international communities
celebrated the enforcement of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on Jan 22.
TPNW is a result of a mutual agreement arising from several international conferences and dialogues, including the three conferences on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Oslo (March 2013), Nayarit (February 2014) and Vienna (December 2014).
Abim is confident that the enforcement of the TPNW will have a positive impact on global peace, particularly in saving human lives from the devastation of war involving nuclear weapons.
At the same time, Abim applauds the commitment shown by Malaysia in becoming the 46th country to ratify the treaty on Sept 30,2020.
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