Hiroshima mayor praises nuke ban treaty draft

Meeting with reporters on May 23, 2017, in the western Japan city of Hiroshima, Mayor Kazumi Matsui welcomes the first draft of an international treaty to outlaw nuclear weapons. The text contains explicit mention of the suffering of survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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