Japan PM hosts meeting to launch grouping on nuclear disarmament

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday hosted a high-level meeting aimed at increasing momentum to initiate talks on a multinational pact banning the production of nuclear materials that have the potential to be used in weapons.The meeting in New York, held on the margins of annual U.N. General Assembly events, was attended by representatives from nuclear powers Britain, France and the United States as well as a number of non-nuclear countries also including Australia, Brazil, Nigeria and the Philippines.The 12 countries launched the group called the Friends of a Fissile Material C…READ FULL ARTICLE