Japan urges "collaboration" on nuke disarmament toward 2026 confab

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya on Monday called for "dialogue and collaboration" to advance nuclear disarmament toward a key U.N. conference next year, highlighting efforts by an atomic bomb survivors' group that received the Nobel Peace Prize for conveying the horrors of the destructive weapons."The cry that the tragedies of nuclear weapons must never be repeated and the call for achieving a 'world without nuclear weapons' are now louder than ever," Iwaya said in a speech in New York at a preparatory committee meeting for the 2026 review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation…READ FULL ARTICLE