Photo/Illutration Elayne Whyte, former Costa Rican ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, who chaired the 2017 negotiations that led to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (Asahi Shimbun file photo)

Applications are now being accepted to receive the URL address for English livestreaming of an international symposium on the abolition of nuclear weapons jointly sponsored by The Asahi Shimbun, the Hiroshima city government and the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.

This year’s International Symposium for Peace, “The Road to Nuclear Weapons Abolition: For Hiroshima and Nagasaki to serve as ‘the check’ on nuclear war,” will be held on July 29 from 10 a.m., Japan time.

The keynote speech will be given by Elayne Whyte, Costa Rica’s former ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, who chaired the 2017 negotiations that led to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Whyte will be joined in the subsequent panel discussion by Ken Endo, a political science professor at the University of Tokyo; Kang Jung-min, former chairman of South Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission; and Tomoko Watanabe, executive director of the nongovernmental organization Asian Network of Trust (ANT)-Hiroshima.

In the afternoon session, the writer Kaoru Takamura will present her views. Hiroko Kishida, who had widely shared her experiences of surviving the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and the soprano Kikuko Teshima, who volunteers to pass on the experiences of hibakusha, will then engage in a dialogue.

Applying for free registration to the Asahi Shimbun Digital website can be done in Japanese through (http://t.asahi.com/isp2023). After registration, the URL address for the livestreaming in Japanese and English will be sent to the applicant’s email address.

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