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A-bomb survivor reports on NY activities in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Kunihiko Sakuma (R), an atomic bomb survivor from Hiroshima, reports at a press conference in Hiroshima on May 13, 2014 on the activities he undertook during a recent visit to New York to campaign against nuclear weapons. He attended the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in New York.

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NPT review conference preparatory meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Enrique Roman-Morey, chairman of a preparatory meeting for the 2015 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty review conference, holds a press conference after the two-week meeting ended at the United Nations in New York on May 9, 2014.

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NPT review conference preparatory meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows a preparatory meeting for the 2015 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty review conference at the United Nations in New York on May 9, 2014. The two-week meeting ended the same day.

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Antinuclear activists call for banning nukes at U.N.

NEW YORK, the United States - Hiroshi Takakusaki (L), a representative of the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo), presents a petition signed by heads of municipal governments in Japan calling for a complete ban on nuclear arsenals to Enrique Roman-Moray, who chairs the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 2, 2014, with Angela Kane, the U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, looking on.

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U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Nobuo Kishi, Japanese senior vice foreign minister, delivers a speech at the third session of the preparatory committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014, the opening day of the meeting to be held through May 9.

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U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (2nd row, R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (2nd row, L) sit in at the third session of the preparatory committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014, the opening day of the meeting to be held through May 9.

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U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Nobuo Kishi (C), Japanese senior vice foreign minister, delivers a speech at the third session of the preparatory committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014, the opening day of the meeting to be held through May 9.

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U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Angela Kane (L), the United Nations' High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, delivers a speech at the third session of the preparatory committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014, the opening day of the meeting to be held through May 9.

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Preparatory committee for 2015 NPT review meeting

GENEVA, Switzerland - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (L) delivers a speech at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, in Geneva on April 24, 2013. In the center is Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue and at right is atomic bomb survivor Toshiki Fujimori.

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NPT conference

GENEVA, Switzerland - The Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty parties begins at the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 22, 2013.

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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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Feroukhi meets with Hiroshima mayor

Taous Feroukhi (L), an Algerian ambassador who will chair the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, meets with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at the Hiroshima city hall on April 3, 2015. Feroukhi plans to visit Nagasaki, another A-bombed city, April 4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Head of A-bomb sufferers' group speaks about NPT confab

Terumi Tanaka, head of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Saitama city north of Tokyo on May 23, 2015, about the latest U.N. conference on the review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty held in New York last week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. disarmament talks flop over nuke-free zone plan for Middle East

Taous Feroukhi (2nd from L), president of a U.N. review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, speaks with negotiators during the closing session of the meeting in New York on May 22, 2015. The four-week conference ended without adopting a consensus document. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. disarmament talks flop over nuke-free zone plan for Middle East

Taous Feroukhi, president of a U.N. review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, speaks in the closing session of the meeting in New York on May 22, 2015. The conference ended without adopting a consensus document, with negotiators failing to narrow their differences over a proposal to make the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Egyptian envoy seeks mandate to negotiate banning nukes

Ambassador Hisham Badr, who heads the Egyptian delegation for the U.N. review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, gives an interview with Kyodo News in New York on May 13, 2015. He stressed the need for outlawing nuclear weapons as a step toward eliminating them and urged participants in the meeting to produce an outcome document calling for a negotiation process that is based on a legal framework. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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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Japan requests Hiroshima invite to be reinstated in disarmament paper

Chinese Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs Fu Cong (C) speaks at a meeting of the committee on disarmament, part of the review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, at United Nations Headquarters in New York on May 15, 2015. At the same meeting, Japan called for the return of language referring to possible visits by leaders to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the outcome document of the review conference after it was removed from a draft paper at China's insistence. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan requests Hiroshima invite to be reinstated in disarmament paper

Toshio Sano (L in middle row), a Geneva-based Japanese ambassador for disarmament, speaks at a meeting of the committee on disarmament, part of the review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, at United Nations Headquarters in New York on May 15, 2015. Sano called for the return of language referring to possible visits by leaders to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the outcome document of the review conference after it was removed from a draft paper at China's insistence. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Negotiators discuss U.N. disarmament paper without Hiroshima invite

The U.N. review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on May 14, 2015. Participants in the conference discussed a draft outcome document after a call for world leaders to visit Japan's atomic-bombed cities was dropped from the paper. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional Noh play makes appeal for nuke termination

Photo taken May 14, 2015, in New York shows a scene from a Japanese Noh play set in Urakami Cathedral in the atomic-bombed city of Nagasaki. The traditional masked dance-drama, titled "Holy Mother in Nagasaki," was performed in the U.S. city, where the U.N. review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has been held, to show the misery of the atomic bombing and make an appeal for the termination of nuclear arms. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima mayor speaks to press after returning from NPT confab

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui speaks at a press conference at the Hiroshima city hall in western Japan on May 8, 2015, after returning from New York where he attended the U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference to call for a ban on nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3rd committee of NPT Review Conference holds 1st meeting

The Main Committee III of the 2015 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference holds its first meeting to discuss the peaceful use of nuclear power in New York on May 4, 2015. The conference's Main Committee II also convened its first meeting the same day to debate nuclear nonproliferation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki Univ. students before dispatch to NPT review conference

Twelve Nagasaki youth representatives (back rows) pose for photos in Nagasaki, Japan, on April 5, 2015, prior to their dispatch to the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in New York. The delegation is a human resource development project organized by a council comprised of Nagasaki Prefecture and City, as well as Nagasaki University. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Failure at NPT confab could boost momentum for outlawing nukes: envoy

Jorge Lomonaco, Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on April 29, 2015, on the sidelines of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. Lomonaco said states that are frustrated with a slow pace of negotiations on eliminating nuclear weapons under the nonproliferation regime may press for outlawing the destructive weapons through a convention. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki Univ. student before sent to NPT review conference

Tomoe Yamanaka, a student at Nagasaki University's School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, speaks in Nagasaki, Japan, on April 5, 2015, before her dispatch to the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a member of the Nagasaki Youth Delegation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki Univ. student before dispatch to NPT review conference

Yuka Arakura, a student at Nagasaki University's School of Medicine, speaks in Nagasaki, Japan, on April 10, 2015, before her dispatch to the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a member of the Nagasaki Youth Delegation. She said she wants to take the side of atomic bomb survivors as a medical student in the atomic-bombed city of Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors attend Mayors for Peace meeting

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui attends a meeting of Mayors for Peace on April 29, 2015, at the U.N. headquarters in New York, where the U.N. conference to review the operation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is ongoing. As of April 1, 6,649 cities from 160 nations belonged to Mayors for Peace, which seeks the total abolition of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors attend Mayors for Peace meeting

Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue attends a meeting of Mayors for Peace on April 29, 2015, at the U.N. headquarters in New York, where the U.N. conference to review the operation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is ongoing. As of April 1, 6,649 cities from 160 nations belonged to Mayors for Peace, which seeks the total abolition of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kerry attends U.N. disarmament confab

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in New York on April 27, 2015. He said North Korea is the "most glaring example" of NPT violations and that it "must abandon all its nuclear weapons and existing programs." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan urges nuclear weapons info transparency, mindful of China

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida addresses the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in New York on April 27, 2015. He called on nuclear-weapon states to improve the transparency of information regarding their nuclear arsenals, apparently wary of China's buildup of its nuclear forces. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People call for nuclear arms abolition

People gather in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 27, 2015, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons prior to the launch of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in New York. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb survivors, children call for nuclear arms abolition

A grandson of atomic-bomb victims paints a picture across a river from the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on April 27, 2015, to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons, prior to the launch of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in New York. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan urges nuclear weapons info transparency, mindful of China

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida addresses the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in New York on April 27, 2015. He called on nuclear-weapon states to improve the transparency of information regarding their nuclear arsenals, apparently wary of China's buildup of its nuclear forces. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People call for nuclear arms abolition

People gather in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 27, 2015, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons prior to the launch of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in New York. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rally for nuke-free world takes place prior to NPT review conference

Taous Feroukhi, ambassador of Algeria who will chair a conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, addresses an antinuclear rally near the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 26, 2015, the day before the start of the conference that will continue through May 22. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rally for nuke-free world takes place prior to NPT review conference

Taous Feroukhi (2nd from R), ambassador of Algeria who will chair a conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Angela Kane (2nd from L), top U.N. official of disarmament affairs, receive a petition of more than seven million signatures from Japan and other countries seeking negotiations for the elimination of the world's nuclear arsenals submitted by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (far L) in New York on April 26, 2015, the day before the start of the conference that will continue through May 22. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb survivors, peace group members march for nuke-free world

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (3rd from R in front) marches on a street in New York to push for nuclear weapons abolition with Atomic bomb survivors from Japan and peace campaigners from various countries on April 26, 2015, the day before the start of a conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that will continue through May 22. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb survivors, peace group members march for nuke-free world

Atomic bomb survivors from Japan and peace activists from various countries participate in a rally to push for nuclear weapons abolition in New York on April 26, 2015, the day before the start of a conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that will continue through May 22. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb survivors, peace group members march for nuke-free world

Atomic bomb survivors from Japan and peace activists from various countries march on a street in New York to push for nuclear weapons abolition on April 26, 2015, the day before the start of a conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that will continue through May 22. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. envoy for nuke nonproliferation speaks in N.Y.

Adam Scheinman, special representative of U.S. President Barack Obama for nuclear nonproliferation, speaks at a press conference in New York on April 24, 2015, ahead of the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation Nuclear Weapons, which starts April 27. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel exhibition on A-bombing starts at U.N.

A panel exhibition on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki begins on April 23, 2015, prior to the start of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. Around 50 panels on A-bomb victims in the two Japanese cities as well as on the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are displayed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel exhibition on A-bombing starts at U.N.

Terumi Tanaka, secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, stands at the U.N. headquarters lobby in New York. A panel exhibition on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki began on April 23, 2015, prior to the start of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. Around 50 panels on A-bomb victims in the two Japanese cities as well as on the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are displayed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki A-bomb survivors' choir to sing in NY

Members of choral group "Himawari" consisting of survivors of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki practice in the southwestern Japanese city on April 7, 2015, to prepare for their performances in New York from April 29. The 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons will commence on April 27 in New York. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima mayor gets petition seeking talks on nuke arms ban

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) receives from a high school student at his office in the western Japanese city on April 16, 2015, a petition with some 60,000 signatures seeking the start of talks over a nuclear arms ban. The student is one of 10 to be dispatched to New York for a U.N. youth forum which will coincide with a conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty starting in the U.S. city on April 27. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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NPT confab chairwoman pays tribute to A-bomb victims in Nagasaki

Algerian diplomat Taous Feroukhi (R), who will chair an upcoming U.N. conference to review the implementation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, offers a white wreath April 4, 2015, at ground zero near where a U.S. atomic bomb exploded in the southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki nearly 70 years ago on Aug. 9, 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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NPT confab chairwoman pays tribute to A-bomb victims in Nagasaki

Algerian diplomat Taous Feroukhi, who will chair an upcoming U.N. conference to review the implementation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, offers a white wreath April 4, 2015, at ground zero near where a U.S. atomic bomb exploded in the southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki nearly 70 years ago on Aug. 9, 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Feroukhi meets with Hiroshima mayor

Taous Feroukhi (L), an Algerian ambassador who will chair the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, shakes hands with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at the Hiroshima city hall on April 3, 2015. Feroukhi plans to visit Nagasaki, another A-bombed city, April 4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Feroukhi lays flowers at cenotaph for A-bomb victims

Taous Feroukhi, an Algerian ambassador who will chair the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, lays flowers at the cenotaph for atomic-bomb victims in Hiroshima on April 3, 2015. Feroukhi plans to visit Nagasaki, another A-bombed city, April 4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan eyes sending foreign minister to upcoming NPT review conference

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) meets with Taous Feroukhi (R), an Algerian ambassador who will chair an upcoming U.N. conference to review the implementation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, at the ministry in Tokyo on April 1, 2015. Japan intends to send Kishida to New York to attend the NPT review conference to be held from April 27 and May 22, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo