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| Thursday, 29 July 2004 |
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration ceremonies Judge C.G. Weeramantry, the former Vice-President of the International Court of justice, who is also the International President of IALANA (International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms), has been invited by the Mayor of Hiroshima to deliver the Keynote Speech at the International Meeting of the 2004 World Conference in Japan, which would be held from 2-6th August. This is organized to commemorate the 59th Anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. Apart from this, Judge Weeramantry is expected to attend several conferences and deliver lectures and talks on a wide array of topics such as international law, conflict prevention and the impact of atomic and hydrogen bombs. He is expected to deliver a lecture on the 3rd to the members of the Hiroshima Bar Association on his widely accepted Dissenting Opinion in the International Court on the legality of nuclear weapons. He will address the Bar Association of Japan on the role of Asian and Japanese lawyers in abolishing nuclear weapons, conflict prevention and international law' on the 11th of August. He has been invited to address the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation and the International Citizens Conference on 'No More Hiroshima's and No more Nagasaki's'. In addition to these lectures, he would also be the panellist on many symposiums held in Nagasaki and Tokyo on themes such as 'Conflict Prevention and International Law' and 'A world Without Nuclear Weapons and Without War'. He would be addressing audiences ranging from lawyers and law students to nuclear bomb victims and associations of citizens dedicated to banning the bomb. Apart from his busy schedule of lectures, judge Weeramantry will be visiting the Atom Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, the Hibakusha (atom bomb victims) at hospitals and nursery homes in Hiroshima and many workshops and field trips which depict the atrocities of the Hiroshima -Nagasaki disaster. Next year will be the 60th anniversary of the bombing and will be commemorated on a massive scale. the Judge will be addressing the organizing committee of this conference, which will be a major international event. The Japan Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (JALANA) is organizing these engagements of judge C.G. Weeramantry. Kalana Senaratne, a law student and research assistant at the Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research, will be accompanying the judge on this 2-week visit to Japan. |
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