Japan students urge abolition of nuclear weapons in Geneva

A group of 22 Japanese high school students on Tuesday submitted to the United Nations a set of signatures calling for the abolishment of nuclear weapons and attended the world body's disarmament conference in Geneva.The students, aged 15 to 18, who were selected as peace messengers by a Nagasaki-based civic committee, also met with Carolyne-Melanie Regimbal, chief of service of the U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs' Geneva Office."A world without nuclear weapons is a goal that should be shared by all humanity," said Kosaku Okimoto, a 16-year-old student from Hiroshima, during the meeting…READ FULL ARTICLE