核有識者、原爆慰霊碑に献花　資料館も視察

　広島市で開催中の核廃絶に関する「国際賢人会議」のメンバーが１１日、平和記念公園を訪れた。代表して座長の白石隆熊本県立大理事長とケイン元国連事務次長が原爆死没者慰霊碑に献花した。２０１５年に米政府高官として初めて８月６日の平和記念式典に出席したガテマラー元国務次官や、ロシア、中国などの有識者が参加した。
　一行はこの後、資料館も視察。展示をスマートフォンで撮影するメンバーもいた。（2022/12/11-11:01）

Experts participating in an international meeting on nuclear abolition in Hiroshima visited the Peace Memorial Park in the western Japan city on Sunday.
   Representing the experts, Takashi Shiraishi, chancellor of the Prefectural University of Kumamoto, and former U.N. Undersecretary-General Angela Kane laid flowers at the cenotaph for the victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, in the closing days of World War II.
   Shiraishi serves as chair of the two-day meeting of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons, or IGEP, which started Saturday.
   Among the IGEP members who visited the Peace Memorial Park were Rose Gottemoeller, former U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs, who became the first high-ranking U.S. official to attend the Aug. 6 annual peace memorial ceremony in Hiroshima in 2015, and experts from China and Russia.
   The experts later visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.