“Protect the next generations from nuclear war” –

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenassured this Friday that the work of the Japanese organization <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/nobel-peace-prize-to-the-nihon-hidankyo-organization-the-2024-prize/" title="Nobel Peace Prize: To the Nihon Hidankyo organization the 2024 prize
-“>Nihon Hidankyowhich today was awarded the Nobel Peace Prizeis “incalculable” and demonstrates “the even greater duty to protect the next generations from nuclear war”.

“The specter of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still looms over humanity”Von der Leyen said in a message on the social network

The president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, also congratulated the organization on the award and thanked it for its “decades of tireless work for peace and its strong defense of a world free of nuclear weapons,” in a message on the same social network.

“At a time when dangerous nuclear rhetoric is on the rise, your relentless advocacy for a world without nuclear weapons is more crucial than ever”said the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, who highlighted that the organization’s testimony ensures that its “message of peace lives on in future generations.”

Along the same lines, the high representative for Foreign Policy of the EU, Josep Borrell, said in a statement that the Nobel to the Japanese organization “serves as a reminder of the serious consequences associated with the use of nuclear weapons and the responsibility that all “States share in preventing this from happening.”

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“A nuclear war cannot be won and should never be fought”said.

Nihon Hidankyo won the Nobel Peace Prize “for his efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and to demonstrate through witness testimony that nuclear weapons should never be used again.”

By granting the award, the Committee wishes to honor all survivors of the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 who, “despite physical suffering and painful memories, have decided to use their costly experience to cultivate hope and commitment for peace.”

Next year will mark 80 years since two American atomic bombs killed some 120,000 inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they recalled in Oslo.

The European Union (EU) also received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 for contributing to “transforming Europe from a continent at war to a continent at peace.” EFE