Nagasaki mayor asks Obama to visit A-bombed city
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue on Wednesday said he handed a letter to U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy during a meeting in Tokyo, urging President Barack Obama to visit the atomic bombed city when he comes to Japan to attend the Group of Seven summit next month.
"Please express your country's steadfast determination to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons through a message, stating that Nagasaki must be the last place to suffer the devastation they bring," the letter said.
"The people of Nagasaki ardently wish to see the realization of both your visit to Hiroshima, and of course to Nagasaki."
On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited the cenotaph in Hiroshima to the tens of thousands who perished in the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing of that city. Kerry became the first U.S. secretary of state to do so while in Hiroshima to attend a G-7 foreign ministerial meeting.
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