TOKYO, May 17 (UPI) -- In a joint declaration published in a Japanese newspaper Monday, 17 Nobel Peace laureates called for a nuclear weapons-free world.
The declaration, carried in the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper in the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima, was signed among others by Northern Ireland peace activist Mairead Corrigan Maguire, International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohammed ElBaradei, and anti-land mine campaigner Jody Williams of the United States, Kyodo news agency reported.