US President Joe Biden does not plan to make an official statement during his visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said on Wednesday.
Biden “He will be participating in a wreath-laying and several other events with other G7 leaders, but this is not a bilateral moment from his point of view.” Sullivan told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Japan for the next summit.
He explained that Biden was coming “As one of the G7 leaders who came to pay their respects” Both the history and hometown of Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
As part of the summit, which begins on Friday, Kishida planned to visit the Hiroshima memorial with the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Italy. They are expected to lay flowers and attend a tree-planting ceremony at a memorial built around the only building left standing after the 1945 atomic bombing.
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945. Hiroshima was hit on August 6, and Nagasaki was hit three days later. President Harry Truman said the move saved millions of lives – mostly American soldiers occupying the Japanese islands, but also Japanese soldiers and civilians. Critics argued that the explosions were completely unnecessary, as Tokyo intended to surrender anyway.
In 2016, Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Hiroshima. He did not apologize for the attack. To this day, the United States remains the only country to have used nuclear weapons in war.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Tuesday that the president would pay when asked about Biden’s intentions. “Respecting the lives of the innocent victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.” but this is a G7 trip “about the future”.
Biden had planned to visit Papua New Guinea after the G7 meeting, the first historic visit by a US president to a Pacific island. Along with his meeting with other leaders “four” – Australia, Japan and India – In Sydney, this was canceled due to the ongoing standoff with Congress over the US national debt.
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