Statments

INIVTATION XVII NAM SUMMIT MARGARITA

COURTESY TRANSLATION

Miraflores Palace, 20th June 2016

Excellency

Head of State / Government

Country

Excellency,

On behalf of the People and Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, allow me to transmit my warmest regards with all the fraternal sentiment that unites our two Homelands, our two Peoples.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF JAPAN AALA

To Our Friends in Asian Countries

In early July 2016 in Japan, the House of Councilors election was held and the forces that support the revision of the Japanese Constitution,led by ruling Liberal Democratic Party,occupied two-thirds of all seats enough to start the revising processin the Diet. Soon after the election,Prime Minister Shinzo Abeexpressed his intention to enhance the debate on this issue.

2016 WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST A & H BOMBS

Declaration of the International Meeting

Seventy one years ago, the USA used nuclear bombs for the first time against humanity by releasing atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With tremendous destructive power and radiation, the two bombs burned out the cities and claimed the lives of about 210,000 people by the end of the year. It was a hell on earth. The Hibakusha who survived then had to suffer from latent effects and social discrimination for many subsequent years. Such inhumane weapons should not be used again in any circumstances whatsoever.

HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

The world was changed when a flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself. On August 6, 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb ("Little Boy") on Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later a second atomic bomb ("Fat Man") was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. These were the only times nuclear weapons have been used in war.