岸田首相、「核兵器のない世界」目指す　ＮＰＴ会議成功へ努力

　岸田文雄首相は９日、各国の政府関係者や有識者が核軍縮を議論するオンライン会合に出席し、「核兵器国と非核兵器国の信頼関係を再構築し、『核兵器のない世界』へとつながなければならない」と強調した。来月予定される核拡散防止条約（ＮＰＴ）再検討会議の成功に向け、寺田稔首相補佐官を関係国に派遣する意向も表明した。（2021/12/09-21:20）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed Thursday to work for realizing a world without nuclear arms.
   "We must rebuild the relationship of trust between nuclear weapons states and nonnuclear weapons states so that we can create a nuclear-free world," Kishida said in an online nuclear disarmament conference among government officials and experts from a number of countries.
   Kishida also showed plans to send Minoru Terada, special adviser to the prime minister, to countries concerned for the success of a review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, or NPT, slated for next month.
   The virtual conference was held by Japan's Foreign Ministry to follow up on meetings of the Group of Eminent Persons for Substantive Advancement of Nuclear Disarmament, which was launched by Kishida in 2017 when he was foreign minister.
   "Moves to increase nuclear capabilities in an opaque manner have been seen around our country," Kishida said, apparently with China and Russia in mind.