日英、円滑化協定で大筋合意　福島県産食品規制、６月解除

　【ロンドン時事】日英両政府は４日、自衛隊と英軍の相互訪問時の法的基盤となる「円滑化協定（ＲＡＡ）」について大筋合意した。ロシアのウクライナ侵攻でインド太平洋地域での安全保障体制にも緊張が広がる中、防衛協力の強化を図る。岸田文雄首相の訪英に合わせて英首相官邸が発表した。
　英政府はまた、２０１１年の東京電力福島第１原発事故後に導入した福島県産食品の輸入規制を６月末までに解除すると明らかにした。（2022/05/05-06:45）

The Japanese and British governments reached a broad accord Wednesday on a reciprocal access agreement, which will serve as a legal basis for mutual visits by Japanese Self-Defense Forces personnel and British troops.
   The accord, announced by the office of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to coincide with a visit to the country by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, is intended to enhance Japan-Britain defense cooperation at a time when security tensions are spreading in the Indo-Pacific region as well following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
   Kishida arrived in Britain earlier on Wednesday on the fifth and final leg of a tour of Southeast Asia and Europe.
   The British government also revealed a plan to lift by the end of June its import restrictions on food produced in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima, which were introduced after the March 2011 triple reactor meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s tsunami crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station.
   The Japan-Britain RAA, designed to implement bilateral defense cooperation smoothly, will, among other things, simplify immigration procedures when troops from one country visit the other for joint exercises or relief activities in times of disaster, and stipulate jurisdiction in case a troop commits a crime or causes an accident in the other's country.