トランプ氏就任前にウクライナ支援６０億ドル支出へ バイデン政権

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】米国のジェイク・サリバン大統領補佐官（国家安全保障問題担当）は１０日、バイデン政権は来年１月のドナルド・トランプ氏の大統領就任前に、残っているウクライナ向けの軍事支援６０億ドル超を使い切る予定だと語った。（写真はジェイク・サリバン大統領補佐官と話すジョー・バイデン米大統領〈右〉）
　サリバン氏によると、ジョー・バイデン大統領は１３日にホワイトハウスでトランプ次期大統領と会談する際、主要な外交政策について話し合う見通し。
　バイデン氏は、ロシアの侵攻を受けるウクライナを支援する国際的な連合を主導してきたが、ロシア軍が成果を上げ、ウクライナの兵員不足が深刻化する中、同国への支援は重要な局面を迎えている。
　一方、トランプ氏は「１日で」戦争を終わらせることができると主張しており、場合によっては就任前にでも終結できるとしている。ウクライナが、ロシアに制圧された領土の一部を割譲することを前提とする「取引」が念頭にあると見られている。
　ウクライナ政府や欧州の北大西洋条約機構（ＮＡＴＯ）加盟国は、トランプ氏に接触を試みる一方で、同氏が大統領就任後にウクライナやＮＡＴＯへの支援を大幅に減らし、ロシア寄りの姿勢を取った場合に備え、独自の路線を用意しようとしている。
　サリバン氏は、バイデン政権の残りの期間における主要目標について、「ウクライナを戦場で可能な限り強力な立場に置き、最終的には交渉の場でも最も有利な立場に立たせることだ」と述べた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/11/11-18:42）

The White House will spend its remaining $6 billion of Ukraine funding before Donald Trump's presidential inauguration in January, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday, warning of the global risks of ending US support for Kyiv.
Sullivan said President Joe Biden is expected to go over top foreign policy issues when he meets with President-elect Trump Wednesday in the Oval Office.
The president will have the chance to explain to President Trump how he sees things, where they stand, and talk to President Trump about how President Trump is thinking about taking on these issues when he takes office, Sullivan said on CBS's Face the Nation.
Biden has led an international coalition in support of Ukraine as it fights off invasion by Moscow, an effort at a crucial point following Russian military gains and an increasingly dire shortage of Ukrainian manpower.
Trump meantime has insisted that he could end the war in a day, possibly even before taking office, presumably as part of a deal that would require Kyiv to cede some of its lost territory to Moscow.
The Ukrainians and European NATO members have been scrambling to reach out to Trump while making their own plans for a world in which the US president appears far less supportive of Kyiv and of NATO, and more friendly to Russia.
Sullivan said a prime goal of the Biden administration in its remaining months, will be to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position on the battlefield so that it is ultimately in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that Ukraine cede large swaths of territory as a precondition to peace talks, while Kyiv has adamantly refused to do so.
Sullivan also said he expected progress on efforts to end the fighting in Gaza and southern Lebanon, and to free the Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
At some point, the Israeli government wants to do a deal that gets its citizens back home, he said. I don't think it's doing that deal for American politics but to try to secure Israel, and I expect in the coming weeks we'll see progress.
Asked about Israel's response to a joint letter from the US secretaries of state and defense demanding that Israel improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Sullivan said, This week, we'll make our judgments about what kind of progress they have made, and ... what we will do in response.
Trump has had a close relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the Republican's electoral win a huge victory and said he had spoken to Trump three times in recent days.