IAEA11月理事会（議題9 その他）ステートメント（海部篤大使）（英語）
令和6年11月22日
Thank you, Chair,
Under this agenda item, I would like to touch upon three points.
Chair,
We believe that the CSA and AP should be the safeguards standard under the NPT. In this regard, Japan highly commends the Government of Timor-Leste and the Secretariat for their successful efforts to bring the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement (CSA) with the Small Quantities Protocols (SQP) based on the revised text and the Additional Protocol (AP) into force.
Japan also welcomes that the Government of the Republic of Nauru signed the Additional Protocol. Japan invites Nauru to bring it into force at an early date.
We would like to take this opportunity to call upon all States that have not yet done so, to conclude a CSA, an AP, and where relevant, the modified SQP, as soon as possible.
Chair,
Japan appreciates the important initiative of the joint statement on Women in Nuclear and is pleased to be a part of the joint statement of the Group of Friends. Like the Director General, I am proud to be an International Gender Champion and I applaud DG Grossi’s personal commitment to gender equality.
Chair,
In the previous statements under this agenda item, AOB, there were some references with regards to the discharge of ALPS-treated water into the sea. As always, the term contaminated water is not appropriate, as it is ALPS treated water that Japan discharges.
10 batches of the ALPS treated water have been safely discharged as planned so far. The safety of the discharge has repeatedly been proven through multi-layered robust monitoring under the framework of the IAEA.
The Japanese government has been providing information in the utmost transparent manner to the international community. While the current monitoring is already sufficient, Japan and the IAEA, on September 20, concurred in conducting additional monitoring measures, which built on the existing monitoring, and most importantly, under the IAEA framework, in response to the interests of concerned countries. On October 15, the IAEA initiated the first practical steps of the additional measures of marine sampling near Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS).
We understand that the IAEA, under the leadership of DG Grossi, will implement as necessary such additional measures with full transparency. Japan will further fully cooperate with the IAEA to ensure that the water is released safely in strict compliance and consistent with international safety standards until the “last drop” will be discharged, with its utmost efforts to ensure the highest level of transparency.
At the same time, we would like to reiterate, as some colleagues here rightly pointed out, the importance of a scientific and evidence-based approach. We call on concerned countries and regions for the elimination of import restriction measures on Japanese food products, taking into account the accumulated monitoring results of the IAEA and international laboratories participating in the IAEA’s ILC (Inter-Laboratory Comparisons) mechanism.
Thank you, Chair.
Under this agenda item, I would like to touch upon three points.
Chair,
We believe that the CSA and AP should be the safeguards standard under the NPT. In this regard, Japan highly commends the Government of Timor-Leste and the Secretariat for their successful efforts to bring the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement (CSA) with the Small Quantities Protocols (SQP) based on the revised text and the Additional Protocol (AP) into force.
Japan also welcomes that the Government of the Republic of Nauru signed the Additional Protocol. Japan invites Nauru to bring it into force at an early date.
We would like to take this opportunity to call upon all States that have not yet done so, to conclude a CSA, an AP, and where relevant, the modified SQP, as soon as possible.
Chair,
Japan appreciates the important initiative of the joint statement on Women in Nuclear and is pleased to be a part of the joint statement of the Group of Friends. Like the Director General, I am proud to be an International Gender Champion and I applaud DG Grossi’s personal commitment to gender equality.
Chair,
In the previous statements under this agenda item, AOB, there were some references with regards to the discharge of ALPS-treated water into the sea. As always, the term contaminated water is not appropriate, as it is ALPS treated water that Japan discharges.
10 batches of the ALPS treated water have been safely discharged as planned so far. The safety of the discharge has repeatedly been proven through multi-layered robust monitoring under the framework of the IAEA.
The Japanese government has been providing information in the utmost transparent manner to the international community. While the current monitoring is already sufficient, Japan and the IAEA, on September 20, concurred in conducting additional monitoring measures, which built on the existing monitoring, and most importantly, under the IAEA framework, in response to the interests of concerned countries. On October 15, the IAEA initiated the first practical steps of the additional measures of marine sampling near Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS).
We understand that the IAEA, under the leadership of DG Grossi, will implement as necessary such additional measures with full transparency. Japan will further fully cooperate with the IAEA to ensure that the water is released safely in strict compliance and consistent with international safety standards until the “last drop” will be discharged, with its utmost efforts to ensure the highest level of transparency.
At the same time, we would like to reiterate, as some colleagues here rightly pointed out, the importance of a scientific and evidence-based approach. We call on concerned countries and regions for the elimination of import restriction measures on Japanese food products, taking into account the accumulated monitoring results of the IAEA and international laboratories participating in the IAEA’s ILC (Inter-Laboratory Comparisons) mechanism.
Thank you, Chair.