TOKYO, Sept. 26 -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan issued the following news release:
On September 26, at 10:30 a.m. local time (11:30 p.m., September 26, Japan time) for approximately 40 minutes, Mr. IWAYA Takeshi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, during his visit to New York to attend the international conferences held on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly, attended the 14th Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and delivered a statement. The summary is as follows.
Minister Iwaya stated in his statement that in realizing a world without nuclear weapons, it is crucial to put into practice the substance of the CTBT, which prohibits nuclear testing an...