Prime Minister Kishida has begun to consider whether he can attend the NPT = Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference scheduled to be held in the United States in August.

He will be the first Japanese Prime Minister to attend.

The NPT = Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, which discusses the direction of global nuclear disarmament, is to be held once every five years, but it has been postponed over and over again due to the spread of the new corona infection. , Will be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in August.



Regarding this, Prime Minister Kishida pointed out in a lecture given on the night of the 10th in Singapore that he visited, "The use of nuclear weapons by Russia is being discussed as a real problem during the Ukraine crisis," and the NPT review meeting He expressed his intention to do everything in his power to achieve meaningful results.



Prime Minister Kishida then began to consider whether he could attend the NPT = Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, hoping to act as a bridge between nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear-weapon states and to take leadership toward success.



If you attend, you will be the first Japanese Prime Minister.



Prime Minister Kishida will decide whether or not to attend, taking into consideration the political schedule after the Upper House election.