Addressing an interaction organized jointly by Tribhuvan University, Department of Conflict Peace and Development and Gautam Buddha International Peace Award Selection and Management Committee, Mayor of Nagasaki Tomihisa Taue and former mayor of Hiroshima Tadatoshi Akiba sought cooperation from all peace-loving people to help realize their noble goal.[break]
Former Mayor of Hiroshima Akiba said their mission to create world without nuclear arms is possible if worked together.
“In 1972, we achieved the chemical weapons convention. In 1993, it was the biological weapons convention. In 1998, it was the anti-personnel landmine convention. In 2008, it was the cluster munitions convention,” said Akiba. “In 2015, with your help, it will be a nuclear weapons convention, leading to a nuclear-weapon-free world by 2020.”
He said the mission will be accomplished as United States President Barack Obama and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are both active supporters of their campaign.
“We see the possibility of a world where war, violence, starvation and widespread environmental destruction will be viewed with horror as artifacts of our barbaric past,” Akiba said.
Speaking on the occasion, Mayor of Nagasaki Taue said all should work together to realize the goal of creating nuclear free world.
On the occasion, former Assistant Secretary General Kul Chandra Gautam, who chaired the Award Selection and Management Committee, said the Peace campaign launched by Mayors of these two cities is highly relevant as there has been massive diversion of resources to military uses that seriously undermine people´s human security.
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