災害教訓共有の重要性訴え＝札幌の高校生、国連で演説

　【ニューヨーク時事】国連が制定した「世界津波の日」の５日、ニューヨークの国連本部で、地震や津波対策を話し合うパネル討論会が開かれた。昨年９月の北海道地震を経験した札幌市の高校生２人が「自然災害が家族や社会、地域に及ぼす大きな影響について、世界的な認識を高めなければならない」と英語で演説し、過去の災害の教訓を共有する重要性を訴えた。
　２人は、北海道札幌国際情報高校２年井戸静星さん（１７）と、札幌日本大学高校１年桐越航さん（１６）。今年９月に札幌市で開かれた地震や津波について国内外の高校生が話し合う高校生サミットで議長を務め、今回のパネル討論会でサミットの結果を共同で報告した。（2019/11/06-08:22）

Two Japanese high school students stressed Tuesday the importance of sharing lessons learned from past disasters at a panel discussion to mark World Tsunami Awareness Day, held at the U.N. headquarters in New York.
   The two students from Sapporo in Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, who experienced a powerful earthquake in September last year, gave a joint speech at the event.
   "We must now create a global awareness of profound effects natural disasters have on families, communities and regions around the world," 16-year-old Wataru Kirikoshi, a first-grader at Sapporo Nihon University Senior High School, said in the speech, delivered in English.
   Kirikoshi and Shizuho Ido, 17, a second-grader at Hokkaido Sapporo Intercultural and Technological High School, jointly chaired a high school student summit held in Sapporo in September this year, in which students from home and abroad discussed earthquakes and tsunamis.
   The two reported the outcome of the summit at the panel discussion on responses to earthquakes and tsunamis.