日米首脳会談、４月１０日軸　国賓待遇での首相訪米

　政府が岸田文雄首相の訪米時期について、４月上旬で調整していることが分かった。バイデン大統領との首脳会談は４月１０日を軸に日米間で協議を進める。米側は、２０１５年の安倍晋三氏以来９年ぶりとなる「国賓待遇」で迎える方針だ。首相は米議会での演説を検討している。（2024/01/18-15:27）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hopes to have talks with U.S. President Joe Biden on April 10, government sources said Thursday.
   At the envisaged summit meeting in the United States, the two leaders are expected to deepen the bilateral alliance, affirm close cooperation in dealing with China's moves in the wake of Taiwan's presidential election and exchange views on assistance to Ukraine, the sources said.
   Kishida will be the first Japanese prime minister to be treated as a state guest by the U.S. government since Shinzo Abe, who visited the country in 2015, and will deliver a speech to Congress, the sources added.
   In response to Biden's invitation at a Japan-U.S. summit in November last year, Kishida initially considered making a U.S. trip in early March.
   But later he found it necessary to push back the visit because the president has to deliver his State of the Union address on March 7 and Kishida himself should be present at parliamentary deliberations on Japan's fiscal 2024 budget during March.