Tokyo, Jan 28 (Prensa Latina) Japan announced on Tuesday that high school students from the atomic-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be sent to UN nuclear weapons ban treaty meeting, to be held in March.
The United Nations headquarters in New York will host the third Meeting of State Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which has been ratified by 73 countries, to which Japanese entities agreed to send a group of young people as Peace Messengers.
These representatives of the younger generation living in the atomic-bombed cities are considered ad hoc envoys to demand the elimination of nuclear weapons.
According to NHK, the young people will also attend other debates and events related to the atomic ban issue.
Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors that recently won the Nobel Peace Prize, informed that it plans to send two survivors of the 1945 bombing to the meeting, to reiterate the need to abolish nuclear weapons.
The United States’ decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, has been questioned by many historians for years.
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