Austria wants Japan to attend 1st meeting of U.N. nuclear ban treaty

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has called for the participation of Japan and other non-signatory states in the first meeting of a "historic" U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons, which will come into force on Friday."This is a historic milestone, and a step that many critics of nuclear weapons as well as the hibakusha -- the victims of the atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 -- have been fighting for, for more than 70 years," Kurz said in a written interview with Kyodo News.Austria spearheaded the efforts that led to the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of N…READ FULL ARTICLE