Kishida Heads To Us To Attend Npt Review Conference

Kishida will deliver a speech at the event. He is expected to state that Japan plans to make realistic efforts to try to bring about a world in which nuclear weapons do not exist. This comes against the backdrop of the increasingly severe situation in the world. Russia is still conducting its military operation in Ukraine, and Moscow has threatened to use nuclear weapons there.

Kishida will likely emphasize that it is important to continue to encourage nuclear powers to refrain from using nuclear weapons. He is also expected to urge those countries to be more transparent about their nuclear capabilities.

It is anticipated that the prime minister will announce Japan's intention to provide money for a fund to be set up at the United Nations. The fund will be used to give young people around the world an opportunity to visit the atomic bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Kishida plans to call on countries to make a real effort to maintain and strengthen the NPT framework.

The prime minister wants to try to boost momentum for the effort to abolish nuclear weapons in the run-up to the Group of Seven summit. The conference is scheduled to be held in Hiroshima next May.

Japan has not ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The government points out that not a single nuclear power has joined the treaty. It has indicated that it attaches importance to the NPT.