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To all my colleagues of UNI,



I extend to you my warmest welcome as we the city of Nagasaki ushers in the 3^rd UNI World Congress.



Nagasaki is a port town that has developed throughout the ages as a gateway to foreign cultures. Even during the days of Japan’s national isolation, Dejima functioned as the one and only center of trade where Japan embraced many advanced foreign cultures from the West. Even today, you will see strong resemblance of the merging of Eastern and Western cultures throughout the city.



Nagasaki is also a city which has experienced the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb. 65 years ago on August 9^th, the city of Nagasaki lost 74,000 lives. Ever since, we have been appealing hand in hand with the city of Hiroshima which also shares the tragic experience of nuclear exposure, along with over 4,000 member cities of the Mayors for Peace to abolish nuclear weapons and realize lasting peace so that we never again repeat the calamities of nuclear weapons. The activities by the younger generation are also very active as the High School Peace Messengers who submit the petition for nuclear weapons abolishment every year to the United Nations also visited the Headquarters of UNI Global Union to deliver the message of peace from Nagasaki to the world.



I have met with UNI General Secretary Phillip Jennings and UNI Apro Regional Secretary Christopher Ng and was conveyed their strong passion towards the UNI World Congress. I believe that Nagasaki’s long history as the stage for international exchange, and the strong wish for eternal world peace as the last nuclear bombsite will greatly contribute to the success of the UNI World Congress.



I am hoping for many people to visit Nagasaki and a new page be written in the history of UNI Global Union.





October, 2010

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