The letter to Obama was signed by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa of Poland, former South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk, East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez.
Advertisement
In their letter to Obama, the peace laureates said that they were encouraged by his determination to eliminate nuclear weapons, and urged him to join them in paying respects to those who died in the Aug. 6, 1945, attack.
“There could not be a better venue for such a speech than Hiroshima – nor, perhaps, a more fitting forum than one presented by fellow Nobel Peace Laureates,” the letter to Obama said, asking the president to be the keynote speaker.
Join the conversation as a VIP Member