The newspaper said the online petition amassed more than 1 million signatures since its last submission to the U.N. The rise in global conflict and tension is not a justification to oppose abolition it is a reason to support it,” Kido told Aidid. “Nuclear disarmament is an irreversible international trend.

The head of the Japan Confederation of A-and H-bomb Sufferers, Sueichi Kido, a survivor of the bombing in Nagasaki, led the delegation which met NPT chair, Syed Mohamad Hasrin Aidid, and UN disarmament head, Izumi Nakamitsu. The petition was given May 1 to the Preparatory Committee of the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of (NPT) in New York. Survivors of the atom bomb attacks against Japan in 1945 petitioned the UN to implement the 2017 nuclear weapons ban treaty.Ī group of Nagasaki and Hiroshima victims gathered an international petition with more than 9 million signatures that demands early enforcement of treaty of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), according to Tokyo-based The Mainichi newspaper.

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