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Hiroshima Round Table 2017

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Hiroshima Prefecture organizes Hiroshima Round Table to bring together East Asia countries to discuss steps towards nuclear disarmament and arms control in East Asia, as part of the “Supporting the Roadmap for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons” agenda in the 2011 “Hiroshima for Global Peace Plan”. Nuclear abolition and international relations experts from Japan Australia, China, Korea, America and other countries have gathered since the first round table in 2013 and Hiroshima Round Table 2017 is the fifth round table.

Date: Tuesday, August 1 – Wednesday, August 2, 2018

Venue: Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima (Minami-ku, Hiroshima City)

Theme: The participants discussed the following three topics.

1) Bridging the gap between Nuclear Weapon States and Non-nuclear Weapon States

2) Beyond nuclear deterrence

3) Denuclearizing Northeast Asia

Chairman’s Statement

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Participants (23 persons)

Japan	Nobuyasu ABE Commissioner, Japan Atomic Energy Commission; Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs
Japan	Nobumasa AKIYAMA Minister-Counselor Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna
Japan	Kiichi FUJIWARA Professor Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Japan	Wakana MUKAI Assistant Professor Faculty of International Relations, Asia University
Japan	Hirofumi TOSAKI Senior Fellow Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Japan Institute of International Affairs
Japan	Hidehiko YUZAKI Governor, Hiroshima Prefecture
Australia	Gareth EVANS Former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Chancellor, Australian National University
Australia	Ramesh THAKUR Professor, Australian National University; Co-Convenor, Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN)
China	FAN Jishe Senior Fellow & Director for Strategic Studies Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
China	SHEN Dingli Professor, Fudan University
ROK	HAN Yong-sup Professor, Korea National Defense University
Sweden	Sibylle BAUER Director of Studies, Armament and Disarmament Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Switzerland	John BORRIE Chief of Research United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
USA	G. John IKENBERRY Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs Princeton University
USA	Jeffrey LEWIS Director, East Asia Nonproliferation Program James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
USA	Scott D. SAGAN Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science Stanford University