来年の広島訪問に意欲　「世界は被爆者に借り」―国連総長

　【ニューヨーク時事】グテレス国連事務総長は９日、オンラインで日本メディアと会見し、「来年広島を訪問できることを望む」と意欲を示した。グテレス氏は原爆投下から７５年の今年８月に広島の平和記念式典出席を予定していたが、新型コロナウイルス感染拡大を受け、見送っていた。
　グテレス氏は過去の被爆者との面会で「道徳や勇気に深く感銘を受けた」と表明。「世界は彼らに借りがある。軍縮に向けてより効果的に取り組まなければならない」と強調した。国連事務総長としては、２０１０年に当時の潘基文事務総長が広島の平和記念式典に初めて出席。グテレス氏は１８年に事務総長として初めて長崎の平和祈念式典に出席した。（2020/09/10-08:50）

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that he wants to visit Hiroshima next year, after his planned trip to the atomic-bombed western Japan city this summer was canceled due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
   In an online interview with Japanese media organizations, Guterres said that he had the opportunity to meet hibakusha atomic bomb survivors in the past, and that he was "deeply impressed by their moral authority, by their courage, by their resilience."
   "I think the world has a debt toward them," he said. "And that debt should lead us to work much more effectively in relation to disarmament."
   The secretary-general was initially scheduled to attend the memorial ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, but instead sent a video message.
   In 2010, then U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took part in the Aug. 6 memorial ceremony in Hiroshima, becoming the first U.N. chief to do so.