INTERVIEW: Nagasaki mayor seeks dialogue, Japan mediation role ahead of NPT conference

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki emphasized the importance of dialogue between nuclear-weapon and non-nuclear-weapon states in a recent interview, ahead of his participation in a conference starting next week in New York to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."I want to see some sort of results or an agreement to maintain the NPT regime," Suzuki told Kyodo News, expressing hope that the Japanese government will act as a bridge in discussions on the issue, as Japan is the only country to have suffered atomic bombings.A second-generation survivor of the atomic bomb, Suzuki said his parents…READ FULL ARTICLE