Roughly 7,300 persons attended Gensuikyo's meetings. The resolution they passed denounced U.S. hints that it might use nuclear weapons preemptively, calling the policy "a menace that could wreak a second Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the world." It stressed the importance of grassroots peace movements and called for a nuclear abolition petition movement It further demanded that the Japanese government work resolutely for such abolition and abandon its plan to dispatch the Self Defense Force to Iraq.

Roughly 2,200 persons attended the Gensuikin confab, which adopted a declaration stating that the issues surrounding North Korea's nuclear program could "provoke military expansion in Japan and other nations in the region," and should be resolved through dialogue. It demanded that the nuclear weapon states fulfill the "clear commitment to the complete elimination of their nuclear arsenals" that they made at the 2000 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, that Japan and North Korea resume normal diplomatic relations, and that the Japanese government turn Japan's Three Non-Nuclear Principles into law.

(Caption)The Gensuikin World Congress closes after adopting a declaration expressing concern over North Korea's development of nuclear weapons.