インドでの積み込み断念　自衛隊機の支援物資輸送―政府

　政府は２６日の自民党会合で、ウクライナ避難民のための人道救援物資を自衛隊機で周辺国に空輸する計画案を示し、了承された。アラブ首長国連邦（ＵＡＥ）で物資を積み込み、ポーランドとルーマニアに運ぶ。当初はインドも経由地候補となっていたが、自衛隊機の着陸を拒否されたためインドでの積み込みは断念した。計画案は同日の党総務会でも了承された。
　工藤彰三内閣第１部会長によると、外務省はインド側とは事務レベルで合意していたが、「閣僚レベル」で覆されたと説明したという。（2022/04/26-12:47）

Japan has decided not to have Self-Defense Forces aircraft stop over in India en route to delivering aid supplies to Ukrainian evacuees, it was learned Tuesday.
   The ruling Liberal Democratic party approved at a meeting the same day the government's plan to send SDF aircraft to airlift aid supplies to Poland and Romania after gathering them in the United Arab Emirates.
   The government initially assumed that the SDF aircraft would pick up aid supplies in India, as well. However, India refused to allow SDF aircraft to land for the operation.
   According to Shozo Kudo, director of the LDP's First Cabinet Division, the government explained that it had gained Indian approval for the SDF landing at the working level, but the approval was overturned at the "ministerial level."
   At the LDP meeting on Tuesday, Masahisa Sato, chief of the party's Foreign Affairs Division, criticized the government for the lack of behind-the-scenes coordination with the Indian side. "I hope the government will reflect on this seriously," he said.