核使用への危機感表明　平和宣言の骨子発表―長崎市

　長崎市の鈴木史朗市長は２日、長崎原爆の日（８月９日）の平和祈念式典で読み上げる「長崎平和宣言」の骨子を発表した。ウクライナ危機が長期化し、中東情勢が緊迫化する中、「核兵器を使ってはならない」という人道上の規範が揺らいでいることへの危機感を表明する。（2024/08/02-14:14）

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki said Friday that he will share his sense of crisis over a possible use of nuclear weapons, in a speech to be delivered at an annual peace ceremony next week.
   Suzuki will express his concern that humanitarian norms on the non-use of nuclear weapons are being swayed by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, according to an outline of the speech.
   He will make the speech at the peace ceremony on Aug. 9 to commemorate the 1945 atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city.
   In the speech, Suzuki will also refer to a poem by a hibakusha atomic bomb survivor. He will urge world leaders to visit atomic bombed areas and call on Japan to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
   "I will state our determination to keep working on spreading a culture of peace to the world, to abolish nuclear weapons and to achieve lasting world peace," Suzuki said at a press conference.