TOKYO, Jun 22 (NNN-NHK) – Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, is slated to attend a United Nations conference on nuclear nonproliferation, to be held in New York in Aug, the Japanese government said yesterday.
He is expected to deliver a speech as early as Aug 1, when the conference begins, according to local media, citing a government official.
Kishida will be the first Japanese prime minister to attend a review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
“Joined by both nuclear powers and non-nuclear states, the NPT is the foundation of the nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation regime,” Chief Cabinet Secretary, Hirokazu Matsuno, said, in a press conference in Tokyo.
The review conference of the NPT will involve various countries, as well as, survivors of atomic bombings and civic groups. It had been held every five years from 1975 to 2015.
The upcoming meeting, scheduled from Aug 1 to Aug 21, was originally slated to take place in 2020, but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.– NNN-NHK
