Signatories

Eliminating the threat of nuclear weapons is critically important for the future of all humanity. To this end, it is essential to create a world-wide consensus that a world free from nuclear weapons should be the common good. The Global Zero initiative will serve this purpose.

Yukio Satoh is Vice Chairman of the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo and was an accomplished Japanese diplomat, including serving as the Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations. He also served as the Ambassador of Japan to the Netherlands (1994-1996) and to Australia (1996-1998).

Ambassador Satoh entered the foreign service in 1961 from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law, and studied history at Edinburgh University from 1961-63. He has written numerous articles on security issues both in English and in Japanese.