核廃絶へ１０００万人署名＝被爆者、国連に提出

　【ニューヨーク時事】日本原水爆被害者団体協議会（日本被団協）の藤森俊希事務局次長（７５）は１１日、国連総会第１委員会（軍縮）議長を務める南米ボリビアのヨレンティ国連大使、中満泉国連軍縮担当上級代表（事務次長）と国連本部で面会し、核兵器廃絶を求める総計１０５１万７８７２筆（９月末時点）の「ヒバクシャ国際署名」目録を提出した。
　署名活動は被爆者が中心となって２０１６年に始め、毎年国連に目録を提出している。藤森さんは提出に際し、「今やっと（１６年からの累計で）１０００万を超える署名が集まったので、この勢いで来年、もっともっと署名が集まるよう努力する」と強調。核兵器禁止条約の早期発効にも期待を示した。（2019/10/12-06:18）

A Japanese hibakusha atomic bomb survivor submitted to the United Nations on Friday a list of some 10 million signatures in an appeal supporting the abolition of nuclear weapons.
   The list of 10,517,872 signatures, collected as of the end of September, was submitted by Toshiki Fujimori, assistant secretary-general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, to U.N. General Assembly First Committee Chairman Sacha Sergio Llorenty Soliz and U.N. Undersecretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu, also U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, in their meeting held at the U.N. headquarters in New York.
   The First Committee is in charge of disarmament and international security.
   The Hibakusha Appeal international signature campaign seeking nuclear abolition was launched in 2016 mainly by hibakusha, submitting a list of signatures to the United Nations every year. Japan is the only nation attacked with nuclear weapons, with the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastated by the U.S. atomic bombings in August 1945, in the closing days of World War II.
   At the meeting, Fujimori, 75, said: "We have finally collected over 10 million signatures. We'll keep this momentum and step up efforts to gather more and more signatures next year."