岸田首相、ＮＰＴ会議へ出発　「核なき世界」実現訴え

　岸田文雄首相は３１日、核拡散防止条約（ＮＰＴ）再検討会議に出席するため、羽田発の政府専用機で米ニューヨークに向け出発した。日本の首相が同会議に出席するのは歴代初めて。ロシアのウクライナ侵攻で核兵器使用への懸念が強まる中、唯一の戦争被爆国として「核兵器のない世界」実現を訴える方針だ。
　首相は出発に先立ち、首相公邸で記者団に「核兵器のない世界を目指すという国際的な機運が著しく低下している状況に危機感を感じている」と表明。再検討会議について「機運を反転させ、再び盛り上げていく機会にしたい」と語った。（2022/07/31-19:28）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida left for New York on Sunday to attend a review conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as he is seeking to play a leading role in nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation.
   Kishida, a politician elected from Hiroshima, one of Japan's two cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs in August 1945 in the closing days of World War II, plans to call for achieving a world free from nuclear weapons at the NPT conference.
   Speaking to reporters before his departure, Kishida said, "I feel alarmed about a significant decline in international momentum toward a nuclear-free world." The NPT conference should provide an opportunity to reverse momentum, he said.
   He will be the first Japanese prime minister to attend an NPT conference. He aims to serve as a bridge between nuclear and nonnuclear states to ensure the conference produces an agreement.
   In a speech to be delivered at the U.N. headquarters, Kishida will urge nuclear states to improve the transparency of their nuclear arsenals. He aims to build momentum for nuclear disarmament as Japan, the world's only atomic-bombed country, is preparing to host a Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima in May next year.