プーチン氏訪朝で「懸念」　日ロ局長が会談―モスクワ

　モスクワを訪れた外務省の中込正志欧州局長は２１日、ロシア外務省でボロビヨワ・アジア第３局長と会談した。日ロ双方によると、プーチン大統領の２４年ぶりの北朝鮮訪問を踏まえ、中込氏はロ朝の軍事協力に対する「懸念や憂慮」を伝達した。
　ロ朝両首脳は１９日、有事の際の相互支援をうたった「包括的戦略パートナーシップ条約」に署名している。ボロビヨワ氏は、日本側の抗議の試みは「断固容認できない」と反発。同時に、ユーラシア大陸に新たな安全保障構造をつくるプーチン政権の考えを説明した。
　中込氏はロシア側に対し、ウクライナ侵攻の即時停止を改めて要求した。北方四島の元島民らによる墓参などの早期再開も働き掛けた。（2024/06/22-07:34）

Japan has conveyed to Russia its concerns about Moscow-Pyongyang military cooperation in light of Russian President Vladimir Putin's first visit to North Korea in 24 years earlier this week, according to Japanese and Russian officials.
   Masashi Nakagome, director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's European Affairs Bureau, conveyed the message when he met with Lyudmila Vorobyova, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Third Asian Department, in Moscow on Friday.
   The meeting came after Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a new treaty on strategic partnership between their countries in Pyongyang on Wednesday.
   Vorobyova told Nakagome that Japan's attempts of protest are categorically unacceptable. She explained the Putin administration's initiative of creating a new security structure on the Eurasian continent.
   Also during the meeting, Nakagome reiterated Japan's demand for an immediate halt to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and requested the early resumption of visits to family graves on disputed northwestern Pacific islands by former Japanese residents. The Russian-held islands, called the Northern Territories in Japan, were seized from Japan by the Soviet Union in the closing days of World War II.