政府、日中外相会談へ調整　今月下旬のＡＳＥＡＮ会合で

　日中両政府は、ラオスで今月下旬に開かれる東南アジア諸国連合（ＡＳＥＡＮ）関連外相会議に合わせ、上川陽子外相と中国の王毅共産党政治局員兼外相が会談する方向で調整に入った。東京電力福島第１原発の処理水海洋放出や中国当局による邦人拘束、外相間の相互往来などが議題となる見通しだ。（2024/07/19-19:34）

The Japanese and Chinese governments are planning to hold a meeting of their foreign chiefs on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations-related gathering in Laos this month, it has been learned.
   Japan's Yoko Kamikawa and China's Wang Yi are expected to discuss Japan's release into the sea of tritium-containing treated water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, as well as the detention of Japanese nationals by Chinese authorities.
   The envisaged meeting will be the first between the two foreign chiefs since they met in South Korea in November 2023.
   Kamikawa is expected to urge the Chinese side to lift its ban on imports of Japanese fishery products, which was imposed after the water release began last year, and to release detained Japanese citizens.
   On Friday, the Japanese government said that Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Masataka Okano and Chinese Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu will hold a strategic dialogue in Tokyo on Monday. It will be the first such meeting since January 2020.