Hiroshima mayor speaks to panel drafting annual peace statement for 2015

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui speaks to a panel tasked with drawing up an annual peace declaration for this year during a meeting in the western Japanese city on July 21, 2015. The mayor will read the declaration on Aug. 6 when Hiroshima marks the 70th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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