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Hiroshima to bid to host 2015 NPT review conference
HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) - Hiroshima will seek to host the next U.N. conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2015, the 70th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city, the mayor said Thursday.
''I want policymakers of nations that possess nuclear weapons to visit Hiroshima and listen to the calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons,'' Mayor Kazumi Matsui told reporters.
Matsui said Hiroshima will also call on Nagasaki to help host the conference, held every five years to assess implementation of the treaty.
An official of the Hiroshima municipal government's peace promotion division said, ''We hope hosting the conference will build momentum to achieving the city's goal of abolishing nuclear weapons by 2020.''
According to the Hiroshima city government, the conference has previously been held at the U.N. headquarters in New York or at the world body's European headquarters in Geneva.
The previous conference in New York in 2010 adopted a final document in which members unanimously agreed to work toward abolishing nuclear weapons through a 64-point action plan.
The NPT came into force in 1970 and serves as the world's primary legal and political agreement against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Most nations are members, with the exception of North Korea, Pakistan, India and Israel.
''I want policymakers of nations that possess nuclear weapons to visit Hiroshima and listen to the calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons,'' Mayor Kazumi Matsui told reporters.
Matsui said Hiroshima will also call on Nagasaki to help host the conference, held every five years to assess implementation of the treaty.
An official of the Hiroshima municipal government's peace promotion division said, ''We hope hosting the conference will build momentum to achieving the city's goal of abolishing nuclear weapons by 2020.''
According to the Hiroshima city government, the conference has previously been held at the U.N. headquarters in New York or at the world body's European headquarters in Geneva.
The previous conference in New York in 2010 adopted a final document in which members unanimously agreed to work toward abolishing nuclear weapons through a 64-point action plan.
The NPT came into force in 1970 and serves as the world's primary legal and political agreement against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Most nations are members, with the exception of North Korea, Pakistan, India and Israel.
