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In Nagasaki, Germany's Annalena Baerbock calls for world without nuclear weapons

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Green Party leader

A 'world without nuclear weapons'

German Foreign Minister Baerbock met Nagasaki's mayor as part of her stop in western Japan.

Baerbock visited the Atomic Bomb Museum in the city that was hit by a US nuclear bomb on August 9, 1945, where she laid a wreath in memory of the 70,000 people who were killed.

It is one of the only two cities, along with Hiroshima, to ever be hit by a nuclear weapon.

The two stand "like no other place for absolute annihilation and war, and as a symbol for the warning against the use of nuclear weapons," the German foreign minister said.

She called for a world without such destructive weapons and said the German government supports disarmament, "even if the current global situation is quite different."

Baerbock wrote in the museum's guest book saying that she was leaving "with a heavy heart" but also that she felt strengthened in "the communal striving for a more peaceful world without nuclear weapons."

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