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| Top What's up around the Prime Minister August, 2002 |
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Prime Minister Attends Nagasaki Memorial Service
for the Dead and Peace Ceremony
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi attended the annual Nagasaki Memorial Service for the Dead and Peace Ceremony, held in Peace Park, Nagasaki.
In his address, Prime Minister Koizumi stated, "Being the only country ever to have experienced nuclear devastation, based on its determination that the horrors brought upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki should never be repeated, Japan observes its Peace Constitution, firmly maintaining the Three Non-Nuclear Principles. The Government will continue to urge other governments to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) at an early date as it leads the international community in making utmost efforts to abolish nuclear weapons."
Furthermore, regarding the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, due to open next year, Prime Minister Koizumi expressed his intention to strive toward making it a facility that will, for many years to come, convey the horror of nuclear weapons to the entire world and pray for everlasting peace.
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