75 years after the atomic bombing UN Secretary General Nakamitsu attended the Peace Ceremony of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at 6:20 on July 19th

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Under Secretary-General for Disarmament, UN Secretary General Nakamitsu left New York on the 18th to attend a peace ceremony in Hiroshima and Nagasaki next month, 75 years after the atomic bombing. At the ceremony, Deputy Secretary-General Nakamitsu decided to inform the world of his determination to work on nuclear disarmament as the United Nations.

Under Secretary-General Guterres abandoned attendance at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony held next month due to the effect of the new coronavirus, UN Secretary General Nakamitsu decided to make a decision in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I decided to attend the Peace Ceremony, which was held in New York on the 18th.

In an interview with NHK on the 16th before departure, Deputy Chief Nakamitsu stated that "we need to show by action that nuclear disarmament is an important priority issue of the United Nations," and at the turning point of 75 years since the atomic bombing, the United Nations He showed the idea of ​​transmitting the determination to tackle nuclear disarmament to the world from the bombed areas.

Regarding nuclear disarmament, the US-Russia nuclear disarmament treaty "New START = New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty", which is due in February next year, is threatened to survive, and next five years NPT = nuclear proliferation will be held at the UN next year. Some people are worried at the Review Conference on the Prevention Treaty that the conflict between nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear-weapon states may not be successful.

Deputy Secretary-General Nakamitsu stated that “the situation is very severe but we are not in despair”, and declares the non-use of nuclear weapons, reaffirms the importance of the NPT, and is transparent about the nuclear weapons it holds. I would like to raise three points of measures to improve the risk and reduce risk, and use them as a basis for discussion at the review meeting.

After arriving in Tokyo on the 19th, Deputy Secretary-General Nakamitsu will voluntarily take two weeks for quarantine measures, hold talks with Japanese government officials, and then head to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.