Japan will propose that participants at a forthcoming international nuclear conference include a statement urging an early implementation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in a final document to be adopted at the end of the meeting, according to government officials.
Outlining Japan's negotiations strategy for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference that begins May 2 in New York, the officials said Japan, as the only nation to suffer an atomic attack, will urge the participating nations to reduce "nuclear armaments of all kinds."
The strategy has also been set in light of the 60th anniversary this year of the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Tokyo intends to persuade the United States, which has voiced opposition to the inclusion of the statement, of an early implementation of the treaty, they said.