Mayor urges world leaders to visit Hiroshima amid hopes for Obama

Mayor urges world leaders to visit Hiroshima amid hopes for Obama

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui makes remarks to a U.N. open-ended working group on nuclear disarmament in Geneva on May 2, 2016. Matsui called on world leaders to visit the atomic-bombed western Japan city amid growing expectations that U.S. President Barack Obama will become the first sitting American leader to do so. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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