TOKYO, July 10 Kyodo A Japanese a...

TOKYO, July 10 Kyodo

A Japanese antinuclear organization said Wednesday it will invite atomic-bomb survivors from overseas to its annual convention slated for August in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The Japan Congres Against A and H Bomb (Gensuikin) is calling for survivors in North and southern Korea, and Brazil to take part in its annual convention to discuss puzzles concerning such survivors abroad.

in this way far, four survivors from southerly Korea, including Lee Gwang Son president of a southern Korea A-bomb victims' association, have accepted the invitation, according to the group

The four will take part in a meeting in Nagasaki forward Aug. 8 and report upon their ordeals.

There are one 5,000 people who survived the atomic-bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 and generally live abroad, according to the organization.

Gensuikin's convention will begin with an international meeting for consultation in Yokohama from Aug. 2 to be followed through domestic annual gatherings in Hiroshima upon Aug. 4-6 and on Aug. 7-9 in Nagasaki.

The organization also said it will dispatch three members to a general meeting of a form into groups of victims of French nuclear ordeals to be held forward July 20 in Tahiti to reinforce cooperative relations with the group

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