Mayors for Peace Public Comment from Werner LangeFrom:werner lange
To:Kalispell Meetings Public Comment
Subject:EXTERNAL Mayors for Peace
Date:Saturday, August 9, 2025 3:52:57 PM
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August 2025
80th Anniversary of the atomic annihilation of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Dear Mayor Johnson,
You are invited to help make history by joining the honorable list of Mayors for Peace.
Please take a moment from your busy schedule to read the heartfelt plea from the Mayor of Hiroshima to imagine a world
without nuclear weapons and create a culture of peace. At its annual meeting this June, the US Conference of Mayors also
endorsed a resolution urging membership in Mayors for Peace.
Of the 240 US Mayors who have already heeded this prophetic call for a world without nuclear weapons, only 1 (Missoula)
from Montana to date. Please enhance that number by joining these pioneering peacemakers across America and complete the
attached Mayors for Peace registration form. This generation and ones to follow will thank you.
Sincerely,
Rev. Dr. Werner Lange
Executive Committee Member
US Peace Council
Mayors for Peace
Registration Form
To Mr. MATSUI Kazumi
Mayor of Hiroshima
President of Mayors for Peace
I hereby express my city/municipality’s support for the abolition of nuclear weapons and desire to join
Mayors for Peace.*
Name of the city/municipality**:
**This is the name we will use to refer to your city/municipality in our database.
Name of country:
Mayor’s name:
Title:
Mayor’s Signature:
Date:
Mayor’s office address:
TEL: FAX:
E-mail:
Website:
Municipal Population: (as of )
Contact person
Name:
Title:
Position:
E-mail:
Questionnaire
How did you find out about Mayors for Peace?
☐Member City: (Name) ☐Ministry of Foreign Affairs of your country
☐NGO/Organization: (Name) ☐Meeting with Mayor of Hiroshima
☐Other: (please specify)
Please send this form to:
Mayors for Peace Secretariat
FAX : +81-82-242-7452
E-mail : mayorcon@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp
Note
*This registration form implies your city/municipality’s decision to join Mayors for Peace. If your
city/municipality requires specific procedures, including approval from your city/municipal
council, please submit this form after such procedures are completed.
*Mayors for Peace runs several social media sites (X @Mayors4Peace, Facebook
@mayorsforpeace) where we would like to introduce our new member cities. We ask your
permission to share information about your new membership with our followers. If you agree to
the above, we ask that you please provide (1) a photo of the current mayor and (2) a photo that
represents your city (landmark, landscape, etc.). Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
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Mayors for Peace
Secretariat
c/o Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, 1-5 Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima 730-0811 JAPAN
E-mail: mayorcon@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp Website: www.mayorsforpeace.org
July 2025
Dear Fellow Mayor,
I trust this letter finds you well.
In August 1945, two atomic bombs instantly reduced the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to
rubble, taking more than 210,000 precious lives by the end of the year. The hibakusha—those
who barely survived—still suffer from the harmful aftereffects, notably of radiation. While their
minds and bodies are in pain, they continue to make their appeal that “no one else should suffer
as we have.”
With our hibakusha aging, we are determined to have their experiences and strong desire for
peace shared and wholeheartedly accepted by future generations, and to have those commitments
spread throughout the world. I am convinced that spreading their message will eventually lead to
the realization of their most cherished will, the abolition of nuclear weapons.
In 1982, Hiroshima and Nagasaki established Mayors for Peace to achieve this goal. It is a non-
partisan, global network of municipalities that is registered at the UN with ECOSOC. Since its
establishment, Mayors for Peace has expanded its membership and worked in solidarity with its
member cities to call for the realization of a world free from nuclear weapons and lasting world
peace. Presided by the Mayor of Hiroshima and vice presided by the Mayor of Nagasaki along
with 10 other mayors of cities from across the world, as of July 1st of this year, Mayors for
Peace has grown to 8,497 member cities from 166 countries and regions.
In January 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force, which is
the first multilateral treaty to clearly and fundamentally define that nuclear weapons are
subjected to total prohibition. This is a proof that voices of hibakusha and those who share their
fervent wish for the total elimination of nuclear weapons pushed international society forward. In
this context, Mayors for Peace adopted the Vision for Peaceful Transformation to a Sustainable
World (PX Vision) and Action Plan (2021-2025) in July of the same year. The Vision sets forth
three objectives: “Realize a world without nuclear weapons,” “Realize safe and resilient cities,”
and “Promote a culture of peace.” In order to pursue these objectives, we have decided to put a
greater emphasis on the expansion of our membership.
The growing number of Mayors for Peace member cities is a powerful force building real
momentum toward peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons. To this end, I humbly ask that
you share in our sincere message from the atomic bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and
join Mayors for Peace to support our initiatives toward genuine and lasting world peace.
Sincerely yours,
MATSUI Kazumi
President of Mayors for Peace
Mayor of Hiroshima
Mayors for Peace
Registration Form
To Mr. MATSUI Kazumi
Mayor of Hiroshima
President of Mayors for Peace
I hereby express my city/municipality’s support for the abolition of nuclear weapons and desire to join
Mayors for Peace.*
Name of the city/municipality**:
**This is the name we will use to refer to your city/municipality in our database.
Name of country:
Mayor’s name:
Title:
Mayor’s Signature:
Date:
Mayor’s office address:
TEL: FAX:
E-mail:
Website:
Municipal Population: (as of )
Contact person
Name:
Title:
Position:
E-mail:
Questionnaire
How did you find out about Mayors for Peace?
☐Member City: (Name) ☐Ministry of Foreign Affairs of your country
☐NGO/Organization: (Name) ☐Meeting with Mayor of Hiroshima
☐Other: (please specify)
Please send this form to:
Mayors for Peace Secretariat
FAX : +81-82-242-7452
E-mail : mayorcon@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp
Note
*This registration form implies your city/municipality’s decision to join Mayors for Peace. If your
city/municipality requires specific procedures, including approval from your city/municipal
council, please submit this form after such procedures are completed.
*Mayors for Peace runs several social media sites (X @Mayors4Peace, Facebook
@mayorsforpeace) where we would like to introduce our new member cities. We ask your
permission to share information about your new membership with our followers. If you agree to
the above, we ask that you please provide (1) a photo of the current mayor and (2) a photo that
represents your city (landmark, landscape, etc.). Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
1. Outline
In August 1945, atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki instantly reduced them
to rubble, taking more than 210,000 precious lives. With more than 75 years since the bombings, many
survivors (hibakusha) still suffer from the physical and emotional aftereffects of radiation. To spread
throughout the world the hibakusha’s ardent wish symbolized in the message that “no one should suffer
as we have,” and to ensure it is passed on to future generations, Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain
steadfast in our assertion to the world that nuclear weapons are inhumane and continue to call for their
abolition.
On June 24, 1982, at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament held at the UN Headquarters in New
York, then Mayor Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima called for cities throughout the world to transcend national
borders and join in solidarity to work together to press for nuclear abolition. Subsequently, the Cities of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki established “The World Conference of Mayors for Peace through Inter-city
Solidarity” (now, Mayors for Peace), composed of mayors around the world who formally expressed
support for this call. In 1991, the organization was r egistered as an NGO in Special Consultative Status
with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
*On August 5, 2001, the organization changed its name from “The World Conference of Mayors for Peace through Inter-city Solidarity”
to “Mayors for Peace.”
2. Mission
The purposes of “Mayors for Peace” are to contribute to the attainment of lasting world peace by arousing
concern among citizens of the world for the total abolition of nuclear weapons through close solidarity
among member cities as well as by striving to solve vital problems for the human race such as starvation
and poverty, the plight of refugees, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation.
3. Structure
1) Member Cities (as of July 1, 2025)
8,497 cities
in 166 countries
& regions
Area Countries & Regions Member Cities
Asia 39 3,370
Oceania 9 137
Africa 49 441
Europe 41 3,462
North America 3 344
Latin America
and the Caribbean 25 743
Regions: Taiwan / Palestine / Northern Cyprus (Asia), Northern Mariana Islands / French Polynesia (Oceania), Somaliland (Africa),
Kosovo(Europe), Greenland (North America), Puerto Rico (Latin America and the Caribbean)
Mayors for Peace
2) Executive Cities
The following 21 cities are executive cities (From oldest to newest).
President City:
Hiroshima (Japan)
Vice President Cities:
Nagasaki (Japan)
Hannover (Germany)
Malakoff (France)
Muntinlupa (Philippines)
Manchester (UK)
Ypres (Belgium)
Granollers (Spain)
Halabja (Iraq)
Biograd na Moru (Croatia)
Des Moines (US)
Montreal (Canada)
Executive Cities:
Santos (Brazil)
Wellington (New Zealand)
Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Bangkok (Thailand)
Cartago (Costa Rica)
Tehran (Iran)
Grigny (France)
Cervia (Italy)
Evora (Portugal)
*Underlined are Lead Cities in charge of their regional chapter:
19 cities
3) Secretariat
Address : c/o Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation
1-5 Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima 730-0811 JAPAN
E-mail : mayorcon@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp
Website : www.mayorsforpeace.org
4. How to Join
1) Registration Process
i. If your city/municipality would like to join us, please send a “Registration Form” to the Secretariat.
ii. The Secretariat registers its new member cities once a month (around the 20th).
iii. Date of affiliation is the 1st day of the month following the date registration procedures are
completed by the Secretariat. “Certification of Membership” will be sent out to newly affiliated cities
after the date of affiliation.
2) Membership Fee
2,000 yen/year
3) Member Cities’ Activities (Examples)
i. Promote the petition drive calling for all states to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons as soon as possible
ii. Hold peace-related events such as the Mayors for Peace Atomic Bomb Poster Exhibition and share
reports
iii. Invite mayors of your sister cities and neighboring cities who are not yet members to join Mayors
for Peace
iv. Attend the General Conference
*Please see “Peace-Related Activities Offered to Members of Mayors for Peace” for more activities that member cities will get the
opportunity to participate in.
5. Conferences
1) General Conference
Mayors for Peace holds a General Conference once every four
years in principle. Hosted alternately between Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, the General Conference is an opportunity for member
cities to decide and adopt agenda items significant to the
organization.
2) Executive Conference
Mayors for Peace holds an Executive Conference
generally once every two years in one of the executive
cities, where executives discuss future initiatives and plans
for the next General Conference.
6. Vision for Peaceful Transformation to a Sustainable World (PX Vision)
- Peacebuilding by Cities for Disarmament and Common Security -
1) Outline
In order to achieve a world in which all people can perpetually benefit from peace by realizing the total
elimination of nuclear weapons and by attaining and maintaining peaceful coexistence between the
whole of humanity, subsequent to the 2020 Vision, May ors for Peace adopted the Vision for Peaceful
Transformation to a Sustainable World (PX Vision): Peacebuilding by Cities for Disarmament and
Common Security at the 12th Executive Conference in July 2021. Based on this, we build cities where
citizens act with a strong sense of solidarity for the ultimate goal of realizing lasting world peace.
2) Initiatives
For cities to ensure the safety
and security of their citizens
from the great threat of nuclear
weapons and to attain and
maintain peaceful coexistence
between the whole of humanity,
under three objectives set forth
in the Vision, Mayors for Peace
member cities implement the
initiatives outlined in the
Mayors for Peace Action Plan
(2021 – 2025) to promote
peacebuilding by cities.
[Main Initiatives]
1. Appeal to the UN and national governments
2. Mayors for Peace Atomic Bomb Poster Exhibition
3. Providing opportunities to hear hibakusha’s testimonies
4. Distribute and nurture seeds from atomic bomb survivor trees (hibaku trees)
5. Children’s Art Competition “Peaceful Towns”
6. Peace Education Webinar
7. Collaboration with member cities
10th General Conference
(October 2022, Hiroshima)
Objective A:
Reali e a world without
nuclear weapons
Vision Action Plan
1. Sharing in the hibakusha s
earnest wishes
Objective B:
Reali e safe and resilient cities
2. Contribute to a sustainable Earth and
society: Promoting the SDGs
Objective C:
Promote a culture of peace
3. Foster and expand international
public support
4. Promote sustainable development of
Mayors for Peace as an organization
Lasting World Peace
Meeting with national government
representatives
(November 2023, New York)
Speech by the President
at the second Meeting of States Parties
to the Treaty on the Prohibition of
Nuclear Weapons
(November 2023, New York)
Meeting with UN Secretary-General
Guterres
(November 2023, New York)
"Photo provided by: UN / Evan Schneider"
Presentation by Mayors for Peace
youths at the Mayors for Peace Youth
Forum held in UNOG
(August 2023, Vienna)
Planting ceremony of a second
generation atomic bomb survivor trees
seedling by a member city
(March 2024, Obu)
Holding a Peace Education Webinar
(February 2024, Hiroshima)
Petition Drive by the President
and high school students in the street
(August 2022, Hiroshima)
Presenting signatures to the
representatives of UN by high school
students participating in the petition drive
(July 2023, Vienna)
Holding the Mayors for Peace
Atomic Bomb Poster Exhibition
by a member city
(August 2023, Kadogawa)
Mayors for Peace
Secretariat
c/o Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, 1-5 Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima 730-0811 JAPAN
E-mail: mayorcon@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp Website: www.mayorsforpeace.org
Upon joining Mayors for Peace, your city will have the opportunity to participate in activities and
programs which reflect the ultimate goal of the Mayors for Peace Action Plan: lasting world peace.
We hope you will join us and that together, we will make significant strides towards realizing our
goal.
Below please find a list of activities which we offer to our member cities:
1. Seeds from Atomic Bomb Survivor Trees
Mayors for Peace distributes seeds from trees that survived the
atomic bombings to all member cities who wish to receive them.
It is our hope that by taking care of these trees, which serve as
symbols of peace, member cities can foster the ideals of peace
amongst their citizens.
Seeds are provided free of charge.
2. Children’s Art Competitions
Based on the art prompt “Peaceful Towns”, Mayors for Peace has held
an art competition for children ages 6 to 15 in member cities since 2018
with the aim of furthering the promotion of peace education in younger
generations around the world.
3. Atomic Bomb Poster Exhibitions
Mayors for Peace calls on member cities to hold exhibitions of
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Posters and other related
materials to foster a deepened understanding of the realities of
the atomic bombings and strengthen the resolve towards nuclear
abolition among their citizens.
Posters are available in: Japanese, English, German, French,
Russian, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese
Posters are provided free of charge (files can be downloaded from the Mayors for Peace website).
Peace-Related Activities Offered to
Members of Mayors for Peace
4. Online Hibakusha Testimonies
By request, Mayors for Peace can help connect venues in
member cities to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum so they
can experience online hibakusha testimonies.
Available free of charge.
5. Peace Education Webinar
Mayors for Peace holds a Peace Education Webinar annually
with the aim of stimulating youth-led peace activities in member
cities. This webinar provides an opportunity for young leaders
involved in peace activities to share information and engage in
dialogue.
For more information, please contact:
Mayors for Peace Secretariat
c/o Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation
1-5 Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima 730-0811 JAPAN
E-mail: mayorcon@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp