67 years after Hiroshima

Presence of 50,000 people celebrated the ceremony commemorating the victims of the nuclear bomb that flattened Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The city's mayor has called for nuclear disarmament. 67 years now supplemented by dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in the last days of World War II, which destroyed much of the city and left behind about 140,000 dead. The city authorities honored the memory of the victims with a one minute silence and bell. At the ceremony attended by representatives from 70 countries, among them the grandson of U.S. President Harry Truman, who had ordered the dropping of the bomb on the Japanese city. The U.S. government was represented by Ambassador John Roos. The U.S. had sent the first official representative to the memory of Hiroshima ceremony two years ago. Local authorities have requested the elimination of nuclear weapons around the world. "The leaders of all countries possessing nuclear weapons should ever visit to Hiroshima," he said, the mayor of the city Kazoumi Matsuo, who also did a special reference to the Fukushima nuclear disaster on 11 March 2011: "Japan should take a leading role in efforts to disarm, the accident showed that the Fukushima nuclear power risks, even when used for peaceful purposes, "said the mayor's long-suffering city. 50,000 people attended the ceremony at the "Peace Park" near the point 0, between them and citizens living near the nuclear plant in Fukushima and forced to flee their homes. The Japanese Prime Minister Chosichiko Nonta stressed in his speech that Japan has to impart the lessons of dropping nuclear bombs (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) in subsequent generations.