ARAB NEWS

APLN members Hidehiko Yuzaki, Fujiwara Kiichi, and Gareth Evans spoke of the escalating tensions that could lead to a nuclear disaster at a press conference hosted by the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan.

Governor Yuzaki explained how experts from several countries, including Japan, South Korea, China, Russia and the United States, have come together to form the ‘Hiroshima Watch ‘. This crucial initiative is designed to monitor the progress, or lack thereof, regarding the obligations and commitments of various countries related to nuclear disarmament.

Professor Fujiwara added that Hiroshima Watch “aims to keep a watch on the proposed policies that governments should adopt and pursue.” It will present the most important developments each year in nuclear disarmament, nuclear nonproliferation, and nuclear security, as well as their policy implications.

Australian former Foreign Minister Evans said it was essential to making policymakers and the general public “understand that any significant exchange of nuclear weapons would not just be catastrophic for the millions of those men, women and children immediately killed and injured but threaten the very existence of life on this planet as we know it. Complacency is not an option. The risk of the use of nuclear weapons, either deliberately or inadvertently, through system error, human error or miscalculation is growing with each passing year, growing enormously as the security environment in our region and the wider world grows ever more volatile.”

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