Aso says Japan to work with U.S. in eliminating nuke weapons+

TOKYO, April 13 Kyodo - Prime Minister Taro Aso will send a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama to convey his intention of working in concert with the United States for eradicating nuclear weapons, a senior Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker said Monday.

At an LDP executive meeting Monday, the premier stressed that Japan would make
its own efforts to realize a nuclear-free world, according to LDP Secretary
General Hiroyuki Hosoda who briefed reporters on the meeting.
Aso made the remarks after touching on the speech delivered in Prague by Obama
earlier this month in which the U.S. president laid out an ambitious vision for
a world without nuclear weapons and said that the United States will take the
lead as the only country that has used them.
Obama was in Prague for a U.S.-European Union summit.
Asked by reporters in the evening to be more specific about what he wrote in
the letter, Aso declined to comment on the contents.
==Kyodo