Hiroshima declares bid to host NPT review conference

Hiroshima declares bid to host NPT review conference

VIENNA, Austria - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) speaks at a meeting in Vienna on May 4, 2012 sponsored by the Conference of Mayors for Peace. Matsui declared that the city devastated by the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing will seek to host a review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2015, and appealed to representatives from other countries to support its bid. To the left is Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue.

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