The Japanese “Peace Boat” entered the port of Piraeus Wednesday at about 11am. The ship carried on board some 1,000 passengers, with survivors from the Holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki among them.
In a campaign towards a nuclear weapon-free zone in the Middle East, the ship has been sailing the Mediterranean waters from March 23 to 27 under the auspices of the Horizon 2012 Project. Representatives of civil society from many countries were on board to discuss the conference on the Middle East Nuclear Weapons and All Other Weapons of Mass Destructions Free Zone (MENWMDFZ) scheduled for 2012 in Finland.
A delegation from the ship, including ten survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and victims from the nuclear accident in Chernobyl, held a meeting with Piraeus Mayor, Vassilis Michaloliakos.
The welcoming reception of the “Peace Boat” was organized by the Branch of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in Greece, the Monitoring Centre of International Organizations and Globalization, the Nuclear Observatory of EU, the Maragkopoulos Foundation for Human Rights and the municipal network of Piraeus “To Limani tis Agonias”.
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