HIROSHIMA, May 31 Kyodo Hiroshima...

HIROSHIMA, May 31 Kyodo

Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba urg India and Pakistan onward Friday to peacefully interpret bilateral tensions over Kashmir by the agency of dialogue as he visited the sum of two units countries' embassies in Tokyo, municipal officials said.

The mayor handed embassy officials notes to Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in which he also urg the couple South Asian countries to abolish nuclear weapons, they said.

In talks with the mayor, the officials at the two embassies defended their nations' policies moreover pledged to conduct no preempt nuclear attack, they said.

The epistles expressed concerns over the possibility of a nuclear war befitting to the tensions growing with Pakistan conducting three rotunds of missile tests recently

Hiroshima, along with Nagasaki, was the site of a U atomic bomb attack in 1945

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