日米欧「拉致被害者帰国を」　北朝鮮人権問題を協議―国連安保理

　【ニューヨーク時事】国連安保理は１５日、北朝鮮の人権問題をめぐり非公式に協議した。協議後、日米英仏など７カ国が共同で、北朝鮮に対し、日本人拉致被害者の即時帰国などを求める声明を発表した。
　声明は、北朝鮮国内で１０万人以上が政治犯収容所に入れられ、拷問や強制労働などに苦しんでいると指摘。さらに「北朝鮮による人権侵害は国境を越え、日本人らを強制失踪させ、本人の意思に反して北朝鮮内に留め置いている」と批判した。
　声明発表後、石兼公博国連大使は報道陣に「拉致問題は国民の生命に関わるだけでなく、基本的人権の重大な侵害であり、国際社会全体の共通の関心事だ」と述べ、解決に向け関係国と協力を進めていくと強調した。（2021/12/16-07:34）

Japan, the United States, Britain, France and three other countries on Wednesday released a joint statement calling for North Korea to immediately return Japanese nationals it abducted decades ago.
   The statement was released after the U.N. Security Council held an unofficial meeting the same day to discuss North Korea's human rights issues.
   North Korea "continues to hold more than 100,000 people in political prison camps, where they suffer abuses including torture, forced labor, summary executions, starvation, and sexual and gender-based violence," the statement said.
   The statement pointed out that North Korea's "repression even extends beyond its borders."
   "The regime has been implicated in international abductions and forced disappearances of Japanese citizens and other nationals, who are kept against their will in" North Korea, it also said.