Melbourne, June 9: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the first Western leader to visit Hiroshima after it was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945, has called for an end to nuclear weapons.

“Hiroshima should cause the world community to resolve afresh that all humankind must exert their every effort for peace in this 21st century,”' Rudd said.

“We, the people of the Asia-Pacific region, should resolve afresh to make this Asia-Pacific century a century of peace and, for the world at large, that we should aspire now for a world free of nuclear weapons,” he added.

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