沖縄振興も「スピード感」で　河野担当相、知事と会談

　河野太郎沖縄担当相は１９日、沖縄県庁を訪れ、玉城デニー知事と会談した。河野氏は今後の沖縄振興について「アジアに近い優位性を一緒に伸ばしていかないといけない。スピード感を持ってやらないといけない」と述べた。
　玉城氏は米軍普天間飛行場（宜野湾市）の名護市辺野古移設に関し、「反対の民意は（２０１８年の）知事選や昨年の県民投票でも示されている。政府は県との対話に真摯（しんし）に応じてほしい」と要請。河野氏は「内政面でのサポートが私の仕事なので、皆さまの教えを受けながら沖縄を支えるよう努力したい」と述べるにとどめた。
　会談後、河野氏は沖縄振興について記者団に「基地のことも考えた上で経済を発展させていくことが重要だ」と述べ、基地問題と一体的に取り組む考えを示した。（2020/09/19-18:35）

Taro Kono, Japan's new minister in charge of Okinawa affairs, stressed the need to have a sense of speed in vitalizing the southernmost Japan prefecture, in talks with Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki on Saturday.
   Meeting the governor at the prefectural government's office building in Naha, the capital of Okinawa, Kono also said, "We must work together to further heighten the prefecture's advantage of being located close to other Asian nations."
   Tamaki said that the people of Okinawa have shown their opposition to the central government's plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station in Ginowan, Okinawa, to the Henoko coastal district in Nago, another city in Okinawa, through the 2018 gubernatorial election and a prefectural referendum conducted last year.
   "We want the central government to respond sincerely to dialogue with Okinawa" on the base relocation issue, the governor said.
   Kono did not go beyond saying that he will make an effort to support Okinawa under the tutelage of local residents, as his job is to provide support in domestic affairs.