林外相、１日ポーランドへ　ウクライナ避難民支援の首相特使

　政府は３１日、ウクライナ避難民の日本受け入れを隣国ポーランドで進める首相特使として、林芳正外相を派遣することを決めた。４月１日に出発する。当初予定していた古川禎久法相の家族が新型コロナウイルスに感染し、濃厚接触者となる可能性があるため交代した。衆院議院運営委員会理事会に報告し、了承された。
　林氏は古川氏が組んでいた日程に沿い、政府専用機で出発。ポーランド政府要人と会い、ロシアの侵攻から逃れたウクライナ避難民の支援について協議する。避難民の施設や南東部ジェシュフに開設した日本政府連絡事務所を訪れ、５日に帰国する予定だ。（2022/03/31-18:40）

The Japanese government will send Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, instead of Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa, to Poland as a special envoy of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, informed sources said Thursday.
   Furukawa became unable to take up the mission of accepting Ukrainian citizens fleeing Russia's invasion because at least one member of his family was infected with the novel coronavirus and he could be a close contact, the sources said.
   According to the sources, Hayashi, accompanied by State Minister of Justice Jun Tsushima, is scheduled to leave Japan on Friday aboard a government plane for Poland and discuss ways to support Ukrainian evacuees with Polish government officials.
   Hayashi is expected to have evacuees hoping to come to Japan get on the government aircraft on his return trip, after visiting an evacuation center and the Japanese government's liaison office in the southeastern city of Rzeszow.
   The plane will be back in Japan on Tuesday.