水産物禁輸緩和「重要な一歩」　岸田首相、パラオ大統領に謝意

　【ニューヨーク時事】岸田文雄首相は２２日午前（日本時間２３日未明）、パラオのウィップス大統領と米ニューヨークで約３５分間会談し、中国と合意した日本産水産物の輸入禁止措置緩和について「規制撤廃に向けた重要な一歩となる合意」と説明した。首相は東京電力福島第１原発の処理水海洋放出に大統領が信頼を表明してきたことに謝意を示した。（2024/09/23-09:34）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held talks with Surangel Whipps Jr., president of Palau, a Pacific island nation, in New York on Sunday.
   In the meeting that lasted about 35 minutes, Kishida said a recent Japan-China agreement that China will ease its all-out import ban on Japanese fisheries products represents an important step toward full removal of the restrictions.
   China introduced the blanket ban just after the August 2023 start of the release into the sea of treated water containing radioactive tritium from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station in northeastern Japan.
   Kishida thanked Whipps for continuing to place trust in the water release operation.
   The Fukushima No. 1 plant was heavily damaged in the March 2011 powerful earthquake and tsunami.