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Obama urged by Nobel Laureates to attend Hiroshima Peace Summit

The 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates is scheduled to be held in Hiroshima from Nov. 12-14. While Obama is not scheduled to attend the event, he does appear set to visit Japan in the same time period.

Nobel Laureates Urge Obama to Renew Nuclear Disarmament Campaign, NTI: Global Security Newswire -, Aug. 26, 2010 Five recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize are urging U.S. President Barack Obama to renew efforts toward global nuclear disarmament by making a high-profile trip to Hiroshima, the Japanese city where an atomic weapon was first used in war, the Associated Press reported yesterday.

The 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates is scheduled to be held in Hiroshima from Nov. 12-14. While Obama is not scheduled to attend the event, he does appear set to visit Japan in the same time period.

The U.S. president, himself a Nobel Peace Prize winner last year, should offer the keynote address at the summit, according to a letter signed by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Poland’s Lech Walesa, former South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk, East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez.

”There could not be a better venue for such a speech than Hiroshima — nor, perhaps, a more fitting forum than one presented by fellow Nobel Peace Laureates,” according to the letter.

NTI: Global Security Newswire – Nobel Laureates Urge Obama to Renew Nuclear Disarmament Campaign

August 27, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, peace, peaceful