Statement Hiroshima Demands Ban Nukes Treaty Be Immediately
Effectuated HANWA Candle Appeal
RATIFY BAN NUKES NOW! 2019
Two years ago on 7th July 2017, the proposed Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with the approval of 122 countries at the United Nations Headquarters. Nuclear Weapons are totally inhumane weapons whose existence or use must be forbidden. Threat of its use cannot be permitted, either. That is the reason why an overwhelming majority of states chose to prohibit nuclear weapons in order to pursue the possibility of the survival of human beings.
Even though nuclear-weapon states and those dependent on nuclear deterrence for their security have attempted to prevent the Treaty from coming into effect, the legal prohibition of nuclear weapons is now common understanding throughout the world as the shortest way to abolition.
On the anniversary of the adoption of the Treaty, we, citizens of Hiroshima, appeal to the world by lighting candles to express our hope that more than 50 states will ratify the Treaty, so that it will be brought into effect as soon as possible.
Damage caused at every stage of the nuclear cycle continues to increase. The threat of nuclear war is also realistic. Hiroshima’s mission is to address these issues.
The humanitarian crisis must be completely overcome and we reaffirm that humans cannot coexist with nuclear and power. From the standpoint that uranium mines, nuclear power generation, depleted uranium weapons and atomic weapons all produce damage to humans, we continue to create networks of international alliance.
Japan, as the only atomic-bombed country, opposes the Treaty saying that it will “act as a mediator to bridge the gap between nuclear power states and non-nuclear states.” However, far from acting as a mediator, the government is actually widening the gap by always siding with the nuclear powers, particularly the Trump Administration.
On the other hand, our government is also spreading the myth of the safety of exposure to radiation, concealing the reality of the Fukushima disaster, thus abandoning victims of the catastrophe. Japan is also pursuing the nuclear-fuel cycle while re-opening shuttered power plants and further exporting the technology to open new power plants worldwide. Moreover, Japan is storing plutonium by reprocessing nuclear fuel which could be used to develop nuclear weapons in the future. This policy is arousing suspicion in the international community.
The approval of the Treaty has now acquired irreversible international currency. Hiroshima citizens request the Mayor of Hiroshima to demand clearly in the Peace Declaration to be issued on the 6th of August that the government of Japan should sign and ratify the Treaty without delay.
We believe that joint efforts of people across the world to make the Treaty come into effect as soon as possible will most effectively realize a world free of nuclear weapons.
16th July 2019 HANWA
(Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition)
Hiroshima Citizens for Immediate Realization of Ban Nukes Treaty
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