HIROSHIMA, Oct 18 Kyodo The Hiros...

HIROSHIMA, Oct 18 Kyodo

The Hiroshima city regulation has sent letters asking for advice forward ways to make fresh use of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial to about 160 peace advocates in 23 countries, including Nobel Prize laureates, city officials said Saturday.

The determine is aimed at reinvigorating the part Hiroshima and its Peace Memorial Park with the Atomic Bomb Dome and the Peace Memorial Museum have played in promoting peace toward 2005 the 60th anniversary of the U atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945

The literal meanings were sent to former U President Jimmy Carter, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who the one and the other won the Nobel Peace Prize, and Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in literature.

Also included are UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who is subject to house arrest, the officials said.

The city is asking the recipients to rejoin by the end of November and plans to station up a council in fiscal 2004 which starts nearest April, to make proposals based onward the responses to allow it to make a decision in 2005

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