Japan will not join UN nuclear ban treaty: Chief Cabinet Secretary
(VOVWORLD) - Japan will not join a UN treaty banning nuclear weapons, the government’s top spokesman said Monday.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato says Japan would not join the UN's nuclear ban treaty. (Photo: Kyodo)
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said at a news conference that given the increasingly difficult security environment surrounding Japan, it is appropriate to make steady and realistic progress toward nuclear disarmament while maintaining and strengthening deterrence capabilities to deal with threats.
He added Japan shares the goal of this treaty, the abolition of nuclear weapons, but as Japan differs in how to approach the issue, it will not become a signatory.
Survivors of the 1945 US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and other antinuclear activists have urged the administration of Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide to sign onto the historic and symbolic treaty.