日本官房长官木原稔否认高市早苗缺席G7视频会议前饮酒：称她当晚滴酒未沾、为随时参会做准备
东京 — 日本官房长官木原稔11月9日在记者会上全面否认有关首相高市早苗在缺席七国集团（G7）首脑视频会议之前饮酒的报道，称这类说法基于假设与推测，高市当晚完全没有饮酒，并强调这一点要明确说清。
所涉会议于10月2日晚间举行，日本方面由外务审议官远藤和也代理出席。会议数小时前，高市在首相公邸与自民党副总裁麻生太郎等党内高层会餐。时事通信社报道，同席的副官房长官中西祐介10月27日在国会承认会餐时提供了酒类，但对首相本人是否饮酒表示「不清楚」；另有与会者对媒体称首相也喝了酒，有关报道由此出现。
木原稔说，高市不饮酒，是为了应对议题临时增加等需要她本人出席会议的可能性。他同时重申缺席的理由：会议时间直到最后一刻才确定，所需的设备与技术人员等事务准备来不及，且会议主要议题是欧美之间的柴油价格问题，规则允许代理出席，政府综合考量后作出了缺席决定。
这次澄清距会议已过去一个多月。在野党此前已在国会就首相缺席与饮酒问题提出质询，政府的正式否认于11月9日才在记者会上作出。
（来源：时事通信社）
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Denies Takaichi Drank Before Missing G7 Video Call, Saying She Stayed Sober in Case She Had to Attend
TOKYO — Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara on November 9 flatly denied reports that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi had been drinking before she missed a Group of Seven (G7) leaders' video conference, calling the claims based on assumption and speculation and saying she had not touched alcohol at all that evening — a point he said he wanted to make unmistakably clear.
The video conference was held on the night of October 2, with Japan represented by Kazuya Endo, the Foreign Ministry's senior deputy minister for foreign policy, in her place. A few hours earlier, Takaichi had dined at the prime minister's official residence with Liberal Democratic Party executives including vice-president Taro Aso. Jiji Press reported that Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yusuke Nakanishi, who was also at the dinner, told the Diet on October 27 that alcohol had been served, but declined to say whether the prime minister herself drank; another attendee was quoted by media as saying she had.
Kihara said Takaichi abstained precisely because an added agenda item might have required her to join the call. He repeated the government's explanation for her absence: the meeting's timing was settled only at the last minute, the equipment and technical staff needed could not be prepared in time, the main topic was diesel prices between the United States and Europe, and sending a substitute was permitted.
The denial came more than a month after the meeting. Opposition lawmakers had already pressed the government in the Diet over both the absence and the drinking question before Kihara addressed it at the November 9 press conference.
(Source: Jiji Press)
来源：时事通信社
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