Prime Minister Kishida will soon leave for the United States to attend the Review Conference of the NPT = Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Prior to his departure, Prime Minister Kishida expressed a strong sense of crisis over the situation in the international community regarding nuclear disarmament, and expressed his intention to increase the momentum toward a world free of nuclear weapons through his attendance at the conference.
On August 1, Japan time, Prime Minister Kishida will be the first Japanese Prime Minister to attend the NPT Review Conference, which will begin at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, and will give a speech. To do.
Prior to his departure, Prime Minister Kishida told reporters at the prime minister's residence on the night of July 31, ``I am heading to New York with a strong sense of crisis. Looking at the situation, I feel that the international momentum for a world free of nuclear weapons has significantly declined."
In addition, he said, "Because I am in such a difficult situation with a sense of crisis, I will attend the conference for the first time as a Japanese prime minister, and I strongly hope that it will be an opportunity to reverse the momentum toward a world free of nuclear weapons. “There are.”
As Prime Minister Kishida, I would like to explain Japan's efforts in speeches at the NPT, etc., in anticipation of next year's G7 Summit, which will be held in Hiroshima, an atomic bombed city, and call for constructive responses from other countries. .