Japan PM Kishida mulls video address for U.N. nonproliferation talks

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday he is considering making a video address to the U.N. nuclear nonproliferation meeting in January amid a spread of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus in the United States.Kishida, a House of Representatives member from the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima, had earlier indicated that he hoped to attend the NPT Review Conference in person.The conference, which starts Jan. 4 in New York, is for U.N. members to review the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons."Other countries are starting to switch to making video addresses," Kishida…READ FULL ARTICLE