菅首相「拉致解決へ先頭」　被害者家族と面会

　菅義偉首相は２９日、北朝鮮による拉致被害者家族連絡会の飯塚繁雄代表や、拉致被害者横田めぐみさんの母、早紀江さんらと首相官邸で面会した。首相は「全ての拉致被害者の一日も早い帰国実現に向け、自ら先頭に立ってあらゆるチャンスを逃すことなく活路を開いていきたい」と述べた。
　首相は米国のトランプ大統領、中国の習近平国家主席らとの電話会談で拉致解決への協力を取り付けたことを説明。国連総会一般討論演説でも拉致問題に言及したことを報告した。
　飯塚代表は、安倍政権について「具体的な動きが見られず非常に残念だった」と指摘。その上で首相に「時間も大切だ。具体的に動かしてほしい」と訴えた。（2020/09/29-16:17）

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga expressed his determination on Tuesday to spearhead the government's efforts to realize the early return of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago.
   "I'll take the lead in efforts to find a way to bring back all abduction victims as early as possible without missing any chance," Suga said at a meeting with Shigeo Iizuka, the leader of a group of abductee families, and Sakie Yokota, the mother of Megumi, who was kidnapped at the age of 13 in 1977, held at the prime minister's office in Tokyo.
   Suga explained that he has gained agreements with U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on their countries' cooperation in resolving the abduction issue, in recent separate telephone talks.
   Suga also told Iizuka and Yokota that he has reiterated Tokyo's determination to sort out the abduction issue in a speech for general debate at the 75th session of the U.N. General Assembly.
   Regarding the administration of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Iizuka said, "It was regrettable that there were no concrete developments."