At the meeting, they hope to issue a "peace declaration".
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Delivering a "peace declaration" speech, Hiroshima mayor Kazumi Matsui described the pain of those who survived, only to be shunned as contaminated by the radiation.
They may even express concern about seemingly innocuous plans that, at their next meeting, the two Kims issue a "peace declaration".
Among yesterday's events were the signing of a Peace Declaration by 200 veterans from 22 countries and the unveiling of a 60-yard-long Peace Wall.
Ministerial talks with the North are to be held next week, intended to prepare for a second summit, in Seoul this time, between the two president Kims, at which they might issue a "peace declaration".
But they also distanced Mr. Bush from the details of that vision, including Mr. Kim's statements, outside the meeting today, that he plans to sign a peace "declaration" with North Korea if its leader, Kim Jong Il, visits Seoul this spring.
More recently, many Lebanese films have centered on the aftershocks of the Hariri assassination, which was followed by more political murders, a war between Hezbollah and Israel, and sectarian strife — all of which combined to eradicate a contagious sense of hope that engulfed Lebanon in 1989, when a peace declaration was finally signed between the then warring parties.
The main opposition Grand National Party urges Mr Kim to be as tough in dealing with the North as is Mr Bush.Mr Kim has already had to adjust his tactics, cooling on a plan to sign an inter-Korean "peace declaration" during the northern leader's promised visit.
