Hiroshima, Aug. 6 (Jiji Press)--Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on policymakers around the world to show determination and implement policies for nuclear abolition, in an annual peace declaration Thursday, the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan

Hiroshima is marking the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city during World War II.

Kazumi Matsui began his speech by accusing Russia of allegedly "using nuclear weapons as a tool of intimidation"