Japan requests Hiroshima invite to be reinstated in disarmament paper

Toshio Sano (L in middle row), a Geneva-based Japanese ambassador for disarmament, speaks at a meeting of the committee on disarmament, part of the review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, at United Nations Headquarters in New York on May 15, 2015. Sano called for the return of language referring to possible visits by leaders to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the outcome document of the review conference after it was removed from a draft paper at China's insistence. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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