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ICAN requesting meeting with Abe

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The chief of the organization that won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize will visit Japan next month. She is seeking a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
 
Beatrice Fihn, the executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, also known as ICAN, will visit Japan for 7 days from January 12th.
 
She plans to give lectures in the atomic bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
 
ICAN is now requesting the Japanese government to allow the meeting. The group is also calling for a debate session with officials from political parties.
 
The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted this year, and ICAN played a key role.
 
Japan objects to the treaty, arguing it is not effective for nuclear disarmament because the world’s nuclear powers did not join it.
 
Fihn plans to offer Abe and others various ways to study the positive and negative effects of Japan joining the treaty.
 
Akira Kawasaki, a key Japanese member of ICAN, said they are calling for concrete discussions with non-participating nations. He said the countries may be arguing against the treaty because they are guaranteed protection by a country with nuclear weapons.

December 29, 2017 - Posted by | Japan | ,

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