２３年Ｇ７サミット、６月に開催地選定　外務省に準備室設置

　岸田文雄首相は４日夜、ＢＳフジの番組に出演し、２０２３年に日本で開催予定の先進７カ国首脳会議（Ｇ７サミット）について、今年６月までに開催地を選定する考えを示した。これに関し、外務省は１日付で準備室を設置したと発表。既に誘致を表明している名古屋、広島、福岡の３都市を軸に検討が進む見通しだ。
　首相は「これからいろいろな都市のアピールを比べた上で判断したい」と強調。地元・広島での開催については「被爆の実相を感じてもらう意味で重要だ」と評価する一方、「各国のリーダーが被爆地に足を運ぶことは、（それぞれの）国内において議論がある」とも指摘した。（2022/01/04-22:51）

Japan will pick by June this year the venue of the 2023 summit of the Group of Seven major powers it will host, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday.
   Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry announced the establishment of a preparatory office for the G-7 meeting, which will bring together leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the European Union.
   The cities of Nagoya, Hiroshima and Fukuoka have expressed their intent to host the gathering. The government is expected to choose mainly from among the three.
   "We'll make a judgment after weighing up the strong points of various cities," Kishida said on television.
   Holding a G-7 summit in Hiroshima would bear significance in that it would allow G-7 leaders to directly feel the realities of the damage the city sustained from the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attack, he said.