Austria wants Japan to attend 1st meeting of U.N. nuclear ban treaty
(World News Austria)

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has called for the participation of Japan and other non-signatory states in the first meeting of a `historic` U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons, which will come into force on Friday. `This is a historic milestone, and a step that many critics of nuclear weapons as well as the hibakusha -- the victims of the atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 -- have been fighting for, for more than 70 years,` Kurz said in a written interview with Kyodo News. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz addresses United...