SGI Attends the Event Commemorating 50th Anniversary of Tlatelolco Treaty

A showing of the exhibition "Everything You Treasure—For a World Free From Nuclear Weapons” which was created by SGI in cooperation with ICAN, was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL) and SGI and SGI-Mexico at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City.

The opening ceremony was attended by Ambassador Luis Javier Campuzano, Director General for the United Nations; Ambassador Luiz Filipe de Macedo Soares, Secretary-General of OPANAL; Minoru Harada, President of Soka Gakkai, and Nereo Ordaz, General Director of SGI-Mexico.

As well as the exhibition, the event was also held to unveil a plaque commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco) and to mark the 60th anniversary of the Declaration Calling for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons made by second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda in September 1957.

Current Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada made a courtesy visit to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico on the same day to have a meeting with Ambassador Miguel Ruiz Cabañas Izquierdo, Vice Minister for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Further information for the event can be found here.