日韓首脳会談見送りへ＝２３日からの訪米時、空白１年に

　安倍晋三首相は国連総会出席のため２３日から米ニューヨークを訪問する際、韓国の文在寅大統領との会談を見送る意向を固めた。韓国が元徴用工問題で受け入れ可能な解決策を示しておらず、環境が整っていないと判断した。日米韓首脳会談を探る動きもあるが、これにも応じない見通しだ。
　菅義偉官房長官は１９日の記者会見で、ニューヨークでの日韓首脳会談について「何も決まっていない」と述べた。首相周辺は「ないだろう」と明言した。
　首相と文氏の会談は昨年９月の国連総会時が最後。同１０月に韓国最高裁が元徴用工への賠償を日本企業に命じて以降は、国際会議の際にあいさつを交わす程度にとどまっている。首相が今月２３～２８日の外遊中の会談を見合わせれば、日韓首脳会談は１年以上行われないことになる。（2019/09/19-18:03）

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has no plans to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in during his trip to New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly starting Monday, sources familiar with the matter said.
   Abe thinks that holding a summit meeting with Moon at this time is not advisable as Seoul has not offered an acceptable solution to the two countries' dispute over wartime labor, the sources said.
   "Nothing has been decided" regarding a potential Abe-Moon meeting in New York, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a press conference on Thursday. A close aide to the prime minister said that such a meeting is unlikely to happen.
   The prime minister is also expected to decline a proposal from Washington to hold trilateral summit talks with Moon and U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, the sources said.
   Abe and Moon last held talks in September last year on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. They only have exchanged greetings at international meetings since the South Korean Supreme Court ordered a Japanese company to pay compensation to Korean wartime workers in October last year.