Kennedy calls Obama plan to visits Hiroshima 'tribute' to bilateral friendship.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy said Tuesday that U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to visit Hiroshima with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe later this month is “a tribute to the spirit of friendship and the enduring alliance” between the two countries.
Obama’s landmark visit to the city devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb in August 1945 in the closing days of World War II “will reaffirm our shared commitment to working toward a world without nuclear weapons,” Kennedy said in a statement.
“I am honored to be the U.S. ambassador at this time and look forward to this historic moment,” she said.
Obama will visit Hiroshima on May 27 after the end of the two-day Group of Seven summit in Mie Prefecture earlier that day, according to an announcement by the Japanese and U.S. governments on Tuesday. Abe will go with Obama to Hiroshima.
Obama will be the first sitting U.S. president to pay a visit to the city.
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