Chairman of Hiroshima Municipality urged senior officials in Japan to sign a historic treaty to prohibit the nuclear weapons.
Japan commemorates the 74th anniversary of the first atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Mister led the ceremony held in the Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima.
Residents of the city prayed in silence and lit candles and laid wreaths of flowers to honor those passed out on that sinister day of August.
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Kazomy Matsoi, Chairman of Hiroshima Municipality exploited the occasion to urged Abe to ratify the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (TNNNW) that was ratified by more than 120 states.
However, the United States of America (USA) and other nuclear states reject signing that treaty.
Matsoi went on to say: "I call the only government in the world that experienced the nuclear weapon to accept demand of relatives of the atomic bomb to ratify the (TNNNW)."
He added, "I call the Japanese leaders to show the pacification of the constitution to create a free world of the atomic weapons."
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The Japanese official invites leaders of the world to come to Hiroshima to watch memorial of victims of the atomic bomb.
Pope Fancies II, Head of the Catholic Church in the world is excepted to visit Japan later this year.
The threat posed by nuclear weapons in East Asia emerged as North Korea, a nuclear-armed nation, launched "undetermined projectiles" off its eastern coast in the latest test of launch.
On the other hand, the United States and Russia last week refrained from renewing a treaty to ban nuclear weapons from the Cold War, raising fears of an arms race.
Japan is the only country to have been subjected to atomic attack, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a few days before its surrender on 15 August 1945 to end World War II.
On his part, Abe reiterated his promise to work as a bridge between nuclear and non-nuclear states to rid the world of these weapons.
"With the help of both sides, I will patiently encourage them to engage in dialogue, and I am determined to lead international efforts to do so," Abe said.
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