Before the first Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will be held in Austria from the 21st, a conference has just begun in which government representatives and NGOs from each country discuss the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons.


As the situation in Ukraine raises the threat of nuclear weapons, the atomic bomb survivors in Nagasaki will also testify at the conference and will reiterate the inhumanity of nuclear weapons.

In Vienna, the capital of Austria, before the first meeting of the Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will be held from 21st this week, government representatives and NGOs from each country participated from 5 pm Japan time earlier. The Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons has begun.



Focusing on the inhumane impact of nuclear weapons, the conference has been held in Norway, Mexico and Austria to support the realization of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, but since the treaty came into force. This is the first time it has been held.



At this conference, Mr. Kiichi Kido, who was bombed in Nagasaki at the age of 5, will testify about his experience of being bombed, and will also report on the latest research results on the impact of the use of nuclear weapons on humankind and the environment.



Representatives of the Government of Japan, who have not participated in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, are also attending the conference following the past conferences.



As the situation in Ukraine raises the threat of nuclear weapons, the Austrian government, which hosts the conference, has stopped the use and development of nuclear weapons by arousing the international community's interest in nuclear inhumanity, and has banned treaties. It seems that there is an aim to appeal the significance again.