国連総長、Ｇ７サミット出席へ　「核軍縮再活性化」を主張

　【ニューヨーク時事】国連は１６日、グテレス事務総長が先進７カ国首脳会議（Ｇ７広島サミット）に出席すると発表した。グテレス氏は「（サミットでは）核軍縮を再活性化する必要性を強く主張しなければならない」と述べ、議長国・日本が目指す「核兵器のない世界」実現に向けた機運醸成に期待を寄せた。
　グテレス氏は発表に先立ち、ニューヨークの国連本部で日本メディアのインタビューに応じた。ウクライナに侵攻するロシアが核兵器使用を示唆するなど、核の脅威が高まる中、「核保有国がいかなる状況でも核兵器を使わないと確認する時だ」と指摘。日本は唯一の戦争被爆国として、この議論を推進する「道徳的権威がある」と語った。（2023/05/17-08:53）

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will attend the summit of the Group of Seven major democracies that will start in the western Japan city of Hiroshima Friday for a three-day run, the United Nations said Tuesday.
   "We must insist on the need of revitalizing...nuclear disarmament (at the summit)," Guterres said, expressing hope to build a momentum toward realizing a world free from nuclear weapons, a goal pursued by Japan, this year's G-7 chair. Hiroshima was devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, in the closing days of World War II.
   In an interview with Japanese media at the U.N. headquarters in New York earlier on Tuesday, Guterres said that it is time for the nuclear powers to affirm that they will not use nuclear weapons in any circumstances, with the world facing growing nuclear threat posed mainly by Russia, which is invading Ukraine.
   He also stated that Japan, the only country that has suffered atomic bombings, "has a particular moral authority" to call for a commitment to not using nuclear weapons. Three days after the Hiroshima bombing, the United States dropped another atomic bomb on the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki.
   On North Korea, which is apparently planning to conduct a nuclear test, Guterres stressed that the United Nations is "totally opposed" to the country's missile launches and nuclear development program.