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Pugwash Conference president lectures in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Jayantha Dhanapala, president of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs promoting the abolition of nuclear weapons and wars, speaks of a global denuclearization trend in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 18, 2014.

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Nobuyasu Abe to head U.N. disarmament department from July

NEW YORK, United States - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has named Nobuyasu Abe (file photo), Japan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, as undersecretary general in charge of the U.N. Department for Disarmament Affairs, the U.N. press office said on May 28. Abe, 57, who succeeds Undersecretary General for Disarmament Affairs Jayantha Dhanapula, will take up the position on July 1.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki urge U.N. to help create nuke-free world

NEW YORK, United States - Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito (C), along with Hiroshi Morimoto (L), deputy Hiroshima mayor, delivers an appeal to Jayantha Dhanapala (R), U.N. deputy secretary general in charge of disarmament, urging the United Nations to help bring about a nuclear weapons-free world. Ito and Morimoto visited New York to attend the U.N. conference to review the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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U.N. disarmament conference opens in Nagasaki

U.N. Undersecretary General Jayantha Dhanapala opens a disarmament conference in Nagasaki on Nov. 24. The four-day conference, sponsored by the New York-based U.N. Department for Disarmament Affairs, will be devoted solely to the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as president of Sri Lanka

STORY: Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as president of Sri Lanka DATELINE: July 21, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:53 LOCATION: Colombo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the ceremony STORYLINE: Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the president of Sri Lanka on Thursday in the parliament before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya. Wickremesinghe was elected as the president in an election held in parliament on Wednesday, during which Wickremesinghe got 134 votes from parliamentarians. Out of 225 parliamentarians, 223 voted in the ballot and there were four invalid votes. An official from the President's Office told Xinhua that Wickremesinghe will appoint a new prime minister and cabinet in the coming days. On Wednesday, Wickremesinghe invited all political parties to join hands with him and work together to overcome the economic crisis and bring in a new political change. Sri Lanka is in the mid of severe economic turmoil and has sought assistance from the International Monetary Fund and friend

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-PRESIDENT-SWEARING-IN

(220721) -- COLOMBO, July 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Ranil Wickremesinghe (front) attends a swearing-in ceremony in the parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 21, 2022. Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the president of Sri Lanka on Thursday in the parliament before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya. (Sri Lankan President's Office/Handout via Xinhua)

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-PRESIDENT-SWEARING-IN

(220721) -- COLOMBO, July 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Ranil Wickremesinghe (front) attends a swearing-in ceremony in the parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 21, 2022. Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the president of Sri Lanka on Thursday in the parliament before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya. (Sri Lankan President's Office/Handout via Xinhua)

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-PRESIDENT-SWEARING-IN

(220721) -- COLOMBO, July 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Ranil Wickremesinghe attends a swearing-in ceremony in the parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 21, 2022. Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the president of Sri Lanka on Thursday in the parliament before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya. (Sri Lankan President's Office/Handout via Xinhua)

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Nobuyasu Abe to head U.N. disarmament department from July

NEW YORK, United States - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has named Nobuyasu Abe (file photo), Japan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, as undersecretary general in charge of the U.N. Department for Disarmament Affairs, the U.N. press office said on May 28. Abe, 57, who succeeds Undersecretary General for Disarmament Affairs Jayantha Dhanapula, will take up the position on July 1. (Kyodo)

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Pugwash confab ends with call for eliminating nuclear weapons

Jayantha Dhanapala of Sri Lanka (R), president of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, speaks at a news conference in Nagasaki, Japan, which was devastated by the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing, on Nov. 5, 2015, after the end of the five-day meeting. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pugwash Conferences chief meets with Japanese foreign minister

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) talks with Jayantha Dhanapala of Sri Lanka (R), president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2015. The Pugwash Conferences will hold a world convention from Nov. 1 to 5 in the southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki, which was devastated by an atomic bomb dropped by the United States 70 years ago in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pugwash confab head hopes 2015 declaration will guide young scientists

Jayantha Dhanapala, president of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, speaks in an interview in the southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Nov. 6, 2015. Dhanapala said he hopes the Nagasaki Declaration issued at the meeting, which touched on the sufferings of atomic bombing survivors for the first time and urged world leaders to "heed their call now," will serve as a guideline for young scientists. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pugwash confab chief gives Nagasaki replica of Nobel Peace Prize medal

Jayantha Dhanapala (L), president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, hands a replica of the Nobel Peace Prize medal to Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue in the southwestern Japanese city on Nov. 1, 2015. The international network of scholars working for the abolition of nuclear weapons, which won the prize in 1995, held a meeting in Nagasaki, devastated by the 1945 atomic bombing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese high school students meet Pugwash Conference president

Japanese high school students, including 12 "peace ambassadors," meet Jayantha Dhanapala (not in photo), president, the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2015, to discuss the abolition of nuclear weapons. The conference will be held in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 1-5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo