Japan requests Hiroshima invite to be reinstated in disarmament paper

Japan requests Hiroshima invite to be reinstated in disarmament paper

Toshio Sano (C), Japan's ambassador for disarmament, listens on May 15, 2015, to a speech by Chinese Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs Fu Cong at a meeting of the U.N. committee on disarmament at a conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. At the meeting, Sano called for the return of language in the final communique referring to possible visits by world leaders to Hiroshima and Nagasaki after it was removed from a draft at China's insistence. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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