日本の対応「米英も評価」　中国の国家安全法導入方針で―菅官房長官

　菅義偉官房長官は８日の記者会見で、香港への国家安全法導入を目指す中国を批判する米英両国などの共同声明に日本が参加を拒否したとの一部報道に関し「米英をはじめとする関係国はわが国の対応を評価しており、失望の声が伝えられるという事実は全くない」と強調した。
　菅氏は、中国の全国人民代表大会で導入方針が採択された５月２８日に茂木敏充外相らが「深い憂慮」を表明したと指摘。「わが国は強い立場を直接、ハイレベルで中国側に直ちに伝達するとともに、国際社会にも明確に発信してきている」と述べた。（2020/06/08-12:55）

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Monday denied a media report that Japan caused disappointment by refusing to join countries including the United States and Britain who issued a joint statement against China's planned security law for Hong Kong.
   "The United States, Britain and other countries concerned appreciate our country's response (to the Hong Kong situation), so it's not true at all that voices of disappointment were conveyed to us," Suga said at a press conference.
   The top government spokesman pointed out that Japanese officials including Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi expressed deep concern about the Hong Kong security law on May 28, the day when China's National People's Congress adopted a plan to introduce it.
   On that day, the United States, Britain, Australia and Canada released a joint statement arguing that the Chinese move "would curtail the Hong Kong people's liberties, and in doing so, dramatically erode Hong Kong's autonomy."
   The Japanese government has been "directly and immediately conveying its strong position to the Chinese side at high levels, and clearly signaling that position to the international community," Suga stressed.