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UNIS/MA/120
10 November 2015

MEDIA ADVISORY

The Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna and the
United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna

invite representatives of the media to attend the opening of an exhibition

'Towards a world free of Nuclear weapons'

in cooperation with the Government of Japan and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

on Tuesday, 17 November 2015, at 13:00

in the UNIS exhibition space on G05, Vienna International Centre (VIC)

The opening will be preceded by photo opportunity with all the speakers.

Artefacts from the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be displayed along with posters and photos showing the devastation of the two cities following the atomic bombing in August 1945. The exhibition will be seen by many of the 55,000 visitors who come on guided tours of the Vienna International Centre every year.

Speakers at the opening include:

Lassina Zerbo
Executive Secretary, the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)

Dennis Thatchaichawalit
Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Director, Division for Management

Kazumi Matsui
Mayor of Hiroshima City

Ambassador Mitsuru Kitano
Permanent Representative of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna

moderated by:

Martin Nesirky
Director, United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna

Representatives of the media are invited to a reception hosted by the Permanent Mission of Japan following the opening at 13:30 in the VIC Restaurant 'Mozart Room'

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Media representatives who wish to attend the exhibition opening and who are not accredited to the VIC should write to press@unvienna.org before 17:00 on Friday, 13 November.

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For more information please contact:

Anne Thomas
United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna
Telephone: (+43-1) 26060-5588 
Email: anne.thomas[at]unvienna.org

or

Elva Grimsson
Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna
Telephone: (+43-1) 26063 81
Email: ctbtodesk[at]wd.mofa.go.jp

or

Yuta Kawashima
Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna
Telephone: (+43-1) 26063 15
Email: yuta.kawashima[at]mofa.go.jp