Former U.S. President Barack Obama (on screen) delivers a video message to the inaugural meeting of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons in Hiroshima on Saturday. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and former U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday called for a world without nuclear weapons amid Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine and North Korea's pursuit of a nuclear arsenal. "We owe it to our children to pursue a world without nuclear weapons," Obama said in a video message to the two-day meeting through Sunday. Kishida said in his message that he hopes the two days of talks will make "a significant step" toward the abolition of nuclear weapons. The eminent persons meeting involves 15 members and is led by Takashi Shiraishi, chancellor of the Prefectural University of Kumamoto in southwestern Japan and an expert in international politics.

Source: Libya Today December 10, 2022 13:26 UTC