– came to mourn the dead – Barack Obama said after placing a wreath at the monument commemorating the victims of the US air raid in Hiroshima, Japan. It is the first sitting US president, who visited the place where in 1945 the US for the first time in history have used nuclear weapons.
– we have come to reflect on whether this terrible force that has been unleashed here, does not belong to the distant past. We came here to mourn the dead – Barack Obama said in a speech in Hiroshima. – We all remember those innocent victims killed during this terrible war. We have a shared responsibility to look into the eyes of history. We must ask ourselves what we can do to again prevent such suffering – he added. 
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During his speech, Obama stressed the need to strive for a world without nuclear weapons. He said the world must “prevent conflicts using diplomacy.”
After arriving in Hiroshima, President of the United States in the company of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went to the museum located in the park of peace in Hiroshima. Obama signed the commemorative book. He made a wreath at the site commemorating the explosion of an atomic bomb.
140 thousand. victims
In Hiroshima, the Americans for the first time in history have used nuclear weapons. As a result of the attack killed a total of 140 thousand. people. Three days later, the US attacked with nuclear weapons, other Japanese city, Nagasaki.
The White House announced that Obama did not apologize to the Japanese people for the use of nuclear weapons. Apology from the US president had expected some members of the families of victims of the 1945 events. Despite the announcement of the White House in Tokyo received the announced visit of the US President in Hiroshima as a gesture of reconciliation on the part of Americans.
In a speech before the soldiers American airbase in Iwakumi, which Obama visited on the way to Hiroshima, the US president stressed that his visit to the bombed city “is proof that even the most painful divisions can be overcome.”
Author: tas / tr / Source: reuters , pap
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