First of all we are very grateful and happy that we had an opportunity like this and to the members of the steering committee or the organizing committee, participants for this assembly and those who cooperated with us in filling out the questionnaires. Thank you so much. In the third workshop, first of all, we gave a short report of the big changes that occurred from 2013 up till present involving nuclear weapons and also we conducted a questionnaire survey of the young people, their attitude towards nuclear weapons. In this questionnaire some 1200 youth, the young people in Japan participated and we made report of the results or findings of this survey, and based on that survey, USA, Korea, China and Malaysia friends and guests from these places participated in the panel discussions and based on the situations of each of these countries they talked about what it is like to participate in these events in their own surroundings.
We also had a group discussion followed by later and in these group discussions given the situation that young people are concerned and interested about nuclear weapons issues. They find it difficult to join this movement and we discussed amongst ourselves in these group discussions how and what we can do in order to get them to participate. In the group discussions, the young people, guests from overseas and all the Hibakushas and all the Nagasaki residents they will all form the small discussion groups and had very interesting discussions.
Many groups said that itʼs important to conduct peace education from as many places as possible and also the desirable societies where they can have that kind of peace education and also a society where people can participate different ages and so for those discussions.
Interested but not taking actions, not participating. There are so many people like that. But what I want to emphasize is that they are not at fault. They are not bad people. Those who are active and those who are not active both of them would have come together closer and shared information and through doing this that it may become easy or create an environment where all young people feel the want to participate in activities like this.
In places apart from Nagasaki, it doesnʼt seem that there are many, many places or environment or atmosphere where young people find it easy to participate. So, towards the end of the workshop 3, we decided that young people all over the world, individuals, groups, it doesnʼt matter but all these who are interested in peace should be given an opportunity to participate, and to this end, our idea is to establish youth network for peace.
In conducting this workshop we have that, we made this special T-shirt which says keep active and change the world. Through this youth network, we would like to be connected with the young people here in Japan and all over the world and in cooperation with them continue our peace activities and in the future to create a society where those interested people will find it easy to participate in the movement and then that will lead to the environment surrounding peace and disarmament activities in the world. Still some people may find it difficult to participate in activities, but people who are gathered here today please cooperate with people outside of this hall and outside of Japan and keep on making headways and advances in order to promote the peace education.
Thank you once again for giving us an opportunity like this. This completes the report of workshop 3.