Before the first Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will be held next month, representatives of the Japan Confederation of Atomic Bomb Victims will visit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ask Japan to join the treaty. I handed over the signature of the minute and asked for participation in the treaty and observer participation in the conference again.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited the Secretary-General of the Japan Confederation of Unions, Kido Kiichi, for 901,554 signatures requesting the Japanese government to participate in the treaty since January last year when the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came into effect. I handed a part to the person in charge.
The first Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will be held next month in Vienna, the capital of Austria, but the Japanese government has indicated that it will not participate with the nuclear-weapon states.
At a private meeting, the A-bomb survivors again requested that the Japanese government also participate in the meeting as an observer, while a foreign ministry official said, "It has not yet been decided whether Japan will participate." It means that it was limited to.
The Japan Confederation of Atomic Bombs is planning to dispatch two representatives to the site at the time of the Conference of the Parties, and will appeal the actual situation of the atomic bombing.
Mr. Masashi Ieshima, who was dispatched to the site and was exposed to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima at the age of three, strongly appeals that "nuclear weapons are extinct weapons for humankind and cannot be used" while the world situation is tense. I don't think I can stay still in Japan. "