Japan's Kishida Calls for Wider Talks on Nuke Disarmament

Tokyo, Aug. 29 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has called for broader-based discussions in international meetings to speed up efforts to realize a world without nuclear weapons. "Japan will leverage discussions of the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons to help unite the international community behind the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons," Kishida said in an article that he contributed to the U.S. magazine Foreign Affairs. "I hope the Third Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna, set to take place in December 2014, will be inclusive and attract broad international participation, including from nuclear weapons state," he also said. Regarding the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference next year, Kishida said Japan "will pursue an agreement requiring all nuclear weapons states to continue to produce regular reports with greater transparency including more numerical information based on a standard reporting form." END