{"id":1212,"date":"2022-08-09T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2022-08-09T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T12:22:12","slug":"nuclear-weapons-must-be-wiped-off-the-face-of-the-earth-un-chief-says-on-hiroshima-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/nuclear-weapons-must-be-wiped-off-the-face-of-the-earth-un-chief-says-on-hiroshima-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear weapons must be \u2018wiped off the face of the Earth\u2019, UN chief says on Hiroshima anniversary."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cNuclear weapons are nonsense. They guarantee no safety &#8211; only death and destruction,\u201d said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his address on the occasion of the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN chief joined thousands of others on Saturday at Peace Park in the center of the Japanese city to mark the anniversary of the bombing that killed 140,000 before the end of 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Peace Bell sounded, the crowd gathered at the park, including Japan prime minister Fumio Kishida, observed a moment of silence at the exact time the bomb exploded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThree-quarters of a century later, we must ask what we\u2019ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945,&#8221; Guterres said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe cannot forget the lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We must act in their memory and wipe nuclear weapons off the face of the earth once and for all,\u201d Mr. Guterres later tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt a time when geopolitical tensions are rising, and the nuclear threat is back in focus, Japan\u2019s strong and consistent voice on peace is more important than ever,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the UN chief sidestepped a direct mention of Russia, which calls its invasion of Ukraine a \u201cspecial military operation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNuclear weapons are nonsense. They guarantee no safety &#8211; only death and destruction,\u201d said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his address on the occasion of the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The UN chief joined thousands of others on Saturday at Peace Park in the center of the Japanese city to mark &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}