少女像設置、不法状態を解消　地元当局が許可、日本「遺憾」―韓国・釜山

　【ソウル時事】韓国南部・釜山市の日本総領事館付近に置かれている慰安婦少女像をめぐり、周辺道路を管轄する同市東区は１０日、少女像の道路占用許可を４日に承認したと発表した。これまで不法状態で設置されていた少女像だが、「（国内的に）合法化された」（韓国メディア）形だ。
　日本政府は在外公館前の像設置について、公館の品位維持を定めたウィーン条約に反するとして撤去を求めてきた。丸山浩平総領事は６日に東区庁を訪れ、「遺憾の意」を表明。設置許可は「少女像の固定化」につながるとして取り消しを求めたが、東区側は「合法な手続きによって承認された」として拒否した。（2020/08/11-15:44）

Local authorities in Busan have permitted the installation of a statue representing so-called comfort women near the Japanese Consulate-General in the southern South Korean city.
   The permission was given by Busan's Dong District on Aug. 4, domestically legalizing the statue, which had stood illegally. The district office announced the permission on Monday.
   The statue of a girl, designed to symbolize women who were forced into prostitution for Japanese troops before and during World War II, was installed by a citizens' group in December 2016 without permission from local authorities.
   The group filed for the permission after the Busan city assembly approved a revised ordinance last September to pave the way for the legalization.
   The Japanese government has demanded that the statue be removed, saying that erecting it in front of the consulate-general violates the Vienna Convention on diplomacy, which calls for maintaining the dignity of foreign missions.