World Mayors Conference Warns of Nuclear Threat

World Mayors Conference Warns of Nuclear Threat
By María Julia Mayoral
August 6, 2010

Mexico, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) Mankind is threatened by more than 22,000 nuclear weapons, stated on Friday the participants in a tribute to victims of the atomic attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 65 years ago.

The act took place at the Altar to the Fatherland of the Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, where Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said that we do not deserve to relive such a horrible tragedy.

Ambassador Gioconda Ubeda, Secretary General of the Organization for the Proscription of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, urged the world's cities to fight for total nuclear disarmament.

Sixty-five years after the release of those bombs, "humanity is still under threat of more than 22,000 nuclear weapons," she warned.

Created in 1982, the Conference of Mayors for Peace focuses its efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons by 2020. It is composed of 4,069 cities from 144 countries and was registered as a NGO in 1991 by the Economic and Social Council of the Organization of the United Nations.

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