岸田首相、ＮＰＴ出席検討　米で来月開催、近く最終判断

　岸田文雄首相が米ニューヨークで来年１月４日から始まる核拡散防止条約（ＮＰＴ）再検討会議への出席を検討していることが２５日分かった。複数の政府関係者が明らかにした。新型コロナウイルスの変異株「オミクロン株」の感染状況などを踏まえ、近く最終判断する。実現すれば、日本の首相の出席は初めて。（2021/12/25-18:24）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is considering attending a review conference on the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, or NPT, starting Jan. 4 in New York, government sources said Saturday.
   Kishida will soon make a decision while taking into account factors including the level of spread of the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus, according to the sources.
   No Japanese prime minister has attended an NPT review conference.
   Kishida, who calls for stepped-up efforts to create a world without nuclear arms, attaches importance to NPT meetings, which bring together both nuclear weapons states and nonnuclear weapons states.
   In a lecture meeting Thursday, Kishida said: "Things won't move unless we change nuclear powers. Convinced that moving the NPT is realistic, I will do my best for the success of the (upcoming review) conference."