Although it lacked the backing of the United States and other major nuclear powers, a Japan-sponsored draft resolution calling for the abolition of nuclear arms and encouraging people to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki was formally adopted by the U.N. General Assembly.
The majority endorsement in the plenary vote Monday followed approval of the nonbinding motion by the assembly's First Committee on disarmament and security issues last month.
Japan has introduced resolutions on the same subject for 22 consecutive years, with all of them being adopted by the General Assembly.