Japan Atomic Energy Association canceled visit to the U.S.A new coronavirus infection spread March 16 at 18:25
In response to the spread of the new coronavirus, the Japan Atomic Energy Association and the Japan Atomic Bomb Victims Association have announced that they will no longer send delegations to New York, the United States, where a review meeting on the NPT will be held. A review meeting is under consideration to be postponed to the next year, but the Académéric Corps says it will continue calling on the world to abolish nuclear weapons 75 years after the bombings.
For the NPT Review Conference once every five years, the Japan A-Hazard Association will dispatch a 50-member delegation to New York, where the United Nations is headquartered, in April to show the atomic bomb exhibition and survivors. In his testimony of the abolition of nuclear weapons.
However, given the spread of the new coronavirus, the delegation will include many elderly and chronically exposed A-bomb survivors and that discussions are being conducted to delay the meeting next year. And announced that he would cancel the delegation.
`` Unfortunately, the decision to save the lives of the people, I will struggle for the success of signing and other actions, aiming for a world without nuclear weapons and war, with 75 years of bombing and a decision to protect people's lives, '' commented the Japan JDA. doing.
The United Nations plans to discuss the atomic bomb exhibition, including whether it can be postponed, and will continue to appeal to the world for the abolition of nuclear weapons.