Kerry ‘moved’ by Hiroshima memorial
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US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday he was “deeply moved” by his unprecedented visit to the Hiroshima atomic bomb memorial and urged President Barack Obama also to make the trip.
Kerry, who was joined by other G7 foreign ministers, is the highest-ranking US official to pay respects at the spot where American planes launched the first-ever nuclear attack more than seven decades ago.
Washington officials say Obama is considering a trip to Hiroshima late next month around the time of a G7 summit, which is being held in another part of Japan.
An Obama visit would have huge symbolic importance as the first to Hiroshima by a sitting US president.
“I want to express on a personal level how deeply moved I am” to be the first US secretary of state to visit Hiroshima, Kerry told reporters yesterday as he and his Group of seven counterparts wrapped up two days of talks.
A museum at the memorial site is a “gut-wrenching display that tugs at all your sensibilities as a human being,” Kerry said. “Everyone should visit Hiroshima, and everyone means everyone,” Kerry said.
“I hope one day the president of the United States will be among the everyone who is able to come here.”
The G7 later issued its Hiroshima Declaration that called for a “world without nuclear weapons.”
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