Peace is the Pressing Need Today

Permit me to express my warm thanks to organizers of this gathering,which aims to honour the day of peace and to remember together the suffering and devastation brought about by the two world wars and so many regional wars since then.The catastrophic Second World War,which was caused by the militarist and fascist axis,cost tens of millions of lives and led to incalculable material damage.It ended with the unjustified and inhuman dropping of nuclear