TOKYO.—Gathered at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, over 50,000 people commemorated the victims of the U.S. atomic bombing on August 6, 1945, which claimed the lives of more than 297,000 people.
Those attending, including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, listened to a message from Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, who described nuclear weapons as an absolute evil and extreme inhumanity, reported Prensa Latina.
Matsui also placed a list with the names of 5,300 people who have died during the last 12 months due to the aftereffects of the bombing inside the mausoleum that commemorates the deadly horror.
The Mayor of Hiroshima referred to the need to create security systems that exclude military might and called for the total elimination of nuclear arms.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan will continue to seek the cooperation of all to build a world free of such weapons and the UN General Assembly will debate the request to abolish nuclear weapons.
It was also reported that one of the Cuban Five anti-terrorists, Fernando González Llort, participated in the events held yesterday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Vice President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and Hero of the Republic of Cuba attended as a representative of Havana at the official peace memorial ceremony and also took part in the World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.
After paying tribute to the victims at the official ceremony held at the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, the Cuban hero called for complete, transparent, verifiable and irreversible disarmament and underlined the commitment of Cuba to the total elimination of nuclear weapons, PL added.
