岸田首相、２３日に国会報告　ウクライナ訪問、情報管理に苦言も

　参院予算委員会は２２日の理事会で、２３日午後に岸田文雄首相と関係閣僚が出席し、「外交と現下の諸課題」をテーマに集中審議を行うことを決めた。冒頭、首相からウクライナ訪問の報告を受ける。首相は２３日朝に帰国する予定で、２４日に衆院本会議、２７日には参院本会議で、首相の帰国報告と質疑を行う方向だ。
　首相のウクライナ訪問に対し、与野党から評価する声が上がる一方、安全確保のため保秘を期した行動がキーウ到着前に報じられたことで、政府の情報管理を問題視する意見も出ている。（2023/03/22-18:05）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, slated to return home from his visit to Ukraine on Thursday morning, will report on the visit to the Diet, Japan's parliament, in the afternoon of the same day.
   The Budget Committee of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, decided at a meeting of its executive members Wednesday to hold a meeting to hear the prime minister's report.
   Kishida will also give briefings on his latest overseas trip, which also took him to India and Poland, at a plenary meeting of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber, on Friday and at an Upper House plenary meeting on Monday.
   During his first visit to Ukraine since Russia's invasion of the European country began in February last year, Kishida held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.
   The visit has been generally welcomed by both the ruling and opposition parties in Japan. But some people have questioned the government's handling of related information as the visit was reported by some media outlets before he arrived in Kyiv.