Reuters, 11/04 16:13 CET
By Arshad Mohammed and Kiyoshi Takenaka
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) –
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday called his visit to a
memorial to victims of the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack on Hiroshima
“gut-wrenching” and said it was a reminder of the need to pursue a world
free of nuclear weapons.
The first U.S. secretary of state to visit Hiroshima,
Kerry said President Barack Obama also wanted to travel to the city in
southern Japan but he did not know whether the leader’s complex schedule
would allow him to do so when he visits the country for a Group of
Seven (G7) summit in May.
Kerry toured the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Museum,
whose haunting displays include photographs of badly burned victims, the
tattered and stained clothes they wore and statues depicting them with
flesh melting from their limbs.
“It is a stunning display. It is a gut-wrenching
display,” he said. “It is a reminder of the depth of the obligation
everyone of us in public life carries … to create and pursue a world
free from nuclear weapons,” he told a news conference.
After the tour by Kerry and his fellow G7 foreign
ministers, the group issued a statement reaffirming their commitment to
building a world without nuclear arms but said the push had been made
more complex by North Korea’s repeated “provocations” and by worsening
security in Syria and Ukraine.
Click here for the full article.
Source: Euronews
No comments:
Post a Comment