(VOVworld) - Foreign ministers of 12 non-nuclear weapons states have called on nations possessing the weapons to do more to disarm. The foreign ministers of a coalition known as the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Initiative adopted a joint statement at the end of their 8th meeting in Hiroshima on Saturday.

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at a press conference after the two-day Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative ministerial meeting in Hiroshima, April 12, 2014. (AFP)

The Hiroshima Declaration calls for a nuclear disarmament conference that would bring together not only the United States and Russia, but all other nuclear weapons states as well. The statement urges the nuclear powers to clarify the sizes of their nuclear-weapon stockpiles and to reduce the number of such weapons.