New York, Sep 25 (DPA) Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Thursday his government will act as a bridge between nuclear and non-nuclear states because Japan has suffered the devastation of atomic bombs in 1945.

Hatoyama also said Japan will play the same role in economic fora, where the formulation of regulations dealing with financial markets are needed, including summits of the world's 20 richest economies (G20).

Hatoyama attended meetings at United Nations headquarters in New York and spoke with the UN Security Council on nuclear disarmament and in the UN General Assembly, whereas his predecessors had mostly shunned UN meetings.

His Democratic Party of Japan last month toppled the liberal party that dominated politics in the country for more than five decades.

'The new Japan will need to respond appropriately to globalisation,' Hatoyama said in an address to the 192-nation assembly.