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US President Barack Obama delivers speech on a nuclear-free world at Hradcany Square in Prague in April. President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama plan to issue a joint statement calling for a world without nuclear weapons when they hold talks, reports have said. (AFP/File/Joe Klamar)

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