(L to R) Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, US Secretary of State John Kerry, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Canada’s Foreign Minister Stephane Dion, and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini offer wreaths at the Memorial Cenotaph for the 1945 atomic bombing victims in the Peace Memorial Park, on the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, in Hiroshima on April 11. AFP PHOTO
HIROSHIMA, Japan: John Kerry on Monday became the first US secretary of state to visit Hiroshima’s atomic bomb memorial, calling it a “stark, harsh, compelling reminder” of the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons.