第1回「ヒバクシャ地球一周 証言の航海」の参加者である藤井美津江さんが
HANWAという団体が書いたオバマ大統領への手紙を送って下さいました。
HANWAとはなにか？？
核兵器廃絶をめざすヒロシマの会（英語名：Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition 略称：HANWA）は、核兵器廃絶を願い、そのために行動する個人の集まりです。会の趣旨にご賛同いただける方はどなたでもご参加いただけます。
設立のメッセージとしてはこんな文章が・・・
米ソ冷戦終結の結果、今や世界の世論は核兵器廃絶が主流となりつつあります。国際的な非政府組織（NGO）の核兵器廃絶運動にも弾みがついてきており、昨年秋には「核兵器廃絶地球市民長崎集会」が成功裏に開催されました。｢新アジェンダ連合｣という国家レベルの核兵器廃絶運動も核保有五大国と国連で対等に交渉し、日本政府の態度が注目されています。冷戦時代と違い、核兵器廃絶の実現は「あとヒト押し」というところまできています。しかし、他方では宇宙空間軍事化（NMD・TMD）など、歴史の時計の針を逆戻りさせようとする動きもあり、決して油断はできません。
それだけに、被爆地広島・長崎の責任は重大です。今こそ、思想・信条の違いを越えて両市の市民がゆるやかに大きくつながり、被爆者の方々との連帯の上に、これまでに見られなかったような広範な人々に開かれた核兵器廃絶運動を展開すべき時が到来したのです。
すでに呼びかけ人になっているみなさんはもとより、共に広島から声を出そうと思われる方は私たちの運動にご参加くださいますようご案内いたします。
（http://www.e-hanwa.org/category/about）
共同代表がでもある森瀧春子さんは森滝一郎氏(初代）の娘さんで現在７０歳。
ＮＯ ＤＵ(劣化ウラン兵器禁止）ヒロシマ、プロジェクト事務局長、
ウラン兵器を求める国際連合（ＩＣＢＵＷ）運営委員もなされておられるとのことです。
以下はそのHANWAがオバマに宛てた手紙です。
オバマ大統領でのプラハでのスピーチは力強いものでしたね。
今後に期待したいです。
To: The Honorable Barack Hussein Obama
44th President of the United States of America
From: Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (HANWA)
Our heartfelt congratulations from Hiroshima on your inauguration as President of the United States of America!
Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (HANWA), an NGO based in Hiroshima seeking to build a peaceful, nuclear-weapon-free world, would like to express our hopes for your political and economic leadership of the United States and the world during your presidency and our wishes that freedom, human rights, and welfare for world citizens will be enhanced and that global peace and democracy will be greatly reinforced..
The people of Hiroshima particularly identify with your campaign promise to work for a “world without nuclear weapons,” which is critical to the survival of humankind.
The “change” that you have been advocating is an imperative not only for US citizens, but also for people around the world. Without such change, we can entertain no hope for the future.
The “War on Terror” carried out by the Bush administration without sanction by the United Nations simply aggravated the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was far from a solution and even a British cabinet member has criticized it as a terrible blunder. The result was a further deterioration of the global situation, coupled with the world economic crisis. The first decade of the 21st century has seen significant retrogression in freedom, human rights, and welfare as well as a substantial depreciation of prosperity, peace, and democracy.
As citizens of Hiroshima, we are particularly worried by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, which have spread from the United States, Russia, the UK, France, and China to India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. Now, Iran is suspected of clandestinely developing nuclear weapons. The holocausts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have taught us that nuclear weapons are the most inhumane, terrible weapons of mass destruction ever developed, and this understanding is shared by the International Court of Justice, which has declared that they are incompatible with human rights. The abolition of these satanic weapons is not only the fervent desire of the rapidly aging hibakusha(A-bomb survivors)of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is also the paramount responsibility of the United States as world leader. Unless the United States substantially reduces its nuclear arsenal with a view to eventually abolishing all nuclear weapons, further proliferation is inevitable.
First of all, we expect you, President Obama, to abide by your public pledge to produce no new nuclear warheads in the U.S.A. and promote ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty; in defense of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to reconsider the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement; to reduce tension between the U.S. and Russia, abandon deployment missile-defense systems in Europe; to immediately
cease using depleted uranium weapons, which, like nuclear weapons, have brought serious harm due to radiation: to abandon the nuclear first strike policy; and to promise not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.
We welcome the proposal to abolish nuclear weapons presented by Dr. Henry Kissinger et al in The Wall Street Journal in January 2007 and again in January 2008. At the same time, we support wholeheartedly the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol announced in April 2008 by Dr. Tadatoshi Akiba, mayor of Hiroshima and president of Mayors for Peace in preparation for the “decisive decade,” the UN Decade of Disarmament (2010-2020). We urge you to take these proposals into serious consideration and make them pivotal components of the nuclear policy of your new administration, thus liberating the world from the threat of terrorist acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Last but not least, we ask that you withdraw all US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and make every effort to stop all violent military operations in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine. The entire human family desperately needs you to turn the power of the US toward building a genuinely peaceful world free from nuclear weapons and based on respect for human rights and freedom.
Hiroshima has gotten an important instruction that mankind cannot co-exist with nuclear weapon from the unprecedented experience of nuclear war. Hibakushas(A-bomb survivors) have gotten old, and are longing for allover abolition of nuclear weapons.
We sincerely hope that you will be the first US president visiting Hiroshima, will perform practical accomplishment on the abolition of nuclear weapons, and will be noted your name on the human history.
Most Sincerely Yours,
Directors: Mr. Mitsuo Okamoto, Ph.D.
Mr. Goro Kawai
Ms. Haruko Moritaki
The Executive Committee
The Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition
(HANWA)
No.7 Uenoya Building 5th Floor
Honkawa-cho 2-6-1, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City, Japan
Ph: 81-82-532-1311 / Fax: 81-82-232-8100
（文責：畠山澄子）
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