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G-7 ministers adopt Hiroshima Declaration hoping to add momentum to nonproliferation movement

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry puts his hand on Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida’s back after they and their fellow Group of Seven foreign ministers laid wreaths at the cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Monday. Also pictured (left to right) are EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni and French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. | POOL / AP

By Ayako Mie
Staff Writer

Apr 11, 2016

The Group of Seven foreign ministers concluded a historic two-day meeting in Hiroshima on Monday that saw them discuss the goal of global nuclear disarmament in the first city destroyed by an atomic bomb.

The meeting was a victory for the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were A-bombed just days apart toward the end of the war in August 1945, and a feather in the cap of Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, who is rumored to want Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's job.

Kishida's success in bringing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to Hiroshima may pave the way for a similar visit by President Barack Obama when the G-7 summit is held in Mie Prefecture next month.

G-7 ministers adopt Hiroshima Declaration hoping to add momentum to nonproliferation movement

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