ICAN Official Raps G-7 Hiroshima Vision on Nuke Disarmament

   Hiroshima, May 20 (Jiji Press)--A senior official of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, has criticized a Group of Seven document on nuclear disarmament issued on Friday, the first day of the three-day G-7 summit in Hiroshima.
   "We're very, very disappointed and upset" by the G-7 leaders' Hiroshima Vision on Nuclear Disarmament, ICAN Interim Executive Director Daniel Hoegsta said in an interview with Jiji Press, adding that it has "nothing new."
   Hoegsta praised the G-7 leaders for gathering in the atomic-bombed city. However, he said that although they should have felt something from their visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and meeting with hibakusha atomic bomb survivors, their experiences were not reflected in the document at all.
   Taking a photograph with wreaths at the cenotaph is not reflective of their leadership, he said.
   The Hiroshima Vision represents "an unacceptable failure of leadership," and it is even "dangerous" at a time when concerns over nuclear intimidation and the use of nuclear weapons are growing amid Russia's war on Ukraine, Hoegsta said.

(2023/05/20-20:34)

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