A Hiroshima-based citizens' group has presented Kosovo with a stone from the 1945 atomic bombing engraved with an image of a Buddhist goddess of mercy.
A ceremony to mark the donation of the "Stone for Peace," one of the paving stones for Hiroshima streetcar tracks that were just 200 meters from ground zero, was held Monday at the National Museum in Pristina in the presence of around 120 people, including Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga and nonresident Japanese Ambassador Shigeo Iwatani, who is based in Austria.
"By placing the Stone for Peace in the right place of the capital of the Republic of Kosovo, we symbolically join and become one, with all the people of goodwill, with freedom-loving nations, beyond racial, religious, linguistic and cultural differences," Jahjaga said at the start of the ceremony.