基地問題、国際社会も関心を　沖縄知事、国連人権理で訴え

　【ジュネーブ時事】沖縄県の玉城デニー知事は１８日、スイス・ジュネーブを訪れ、国連人権理事会に出席した。在日米軍基地が沖縄に集中し、県民の大きな負担となっている現状を説明。「平和が脅かされ、意思決定への平等な参加が阻害されている」と述べ、国際社会もこの問題に関心を持つよう訴えた。
　沖縄県知事が人権理で基地問題について発言するのは２０１５年の翁長雄志前知事（１８年死去）以来８年ぶり２人目。（2023/09/19-06:04）

Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki on Monday urged the global community to take more interest in the issue of U.S. military bases in Japan being concentrated in the southernmost Japan prefecture.
   Speaking at a U.N. Human Rights Council session on international order held in Geneva, Switzerland, Tamaki said that the overwhelming presence of U.S. bases in Okinawa "threatens the peace and prevents the equal participation in decision-making."
   Tamaki became the second incumbent governor of Okinawa Prefecture to talk about the U.S. base situation in the prefecture at a U.N. Human Rights Council session, with the previous being his immediate predecessor, the late Takeshi Onaga, in 2015.
   At Monday's session, Tamaki noted that despite Okinawa only accounting for 0.6 pct of Japan's national land area, it currently hosts around 70 pct of all U.S. military bases in the Asian nation.
   He brought up the 2019 prefectural referendum that showed the majority of Okinawa residents were opposed to the planned relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base in the Okinawa city of Ginowan to a replacement facility to be built in the Henoko coastal area in the Okinawa city of Nago.