The Nagasaki Municipal Assembly on Monday adopted a resolution urging the government to sign and ratify a nuclear weapons-banning U.N. treaty which will enter into force in January.
In the resolution, the assembly of the city that was devastated by an atomic bomb attack late in World War II also asked the central government to attend meetings of the member states of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as an observer and work toward bringing a member state conference to Nagasaki.
The United Nations said in October that Honduras had become the 50th country or region to sign the treaty, reaching the threshold required for it to be ratified and paving the way for it to enter into force Jan. 22.