TIRANA, June 4 /ATA/-It is high time the economic relations between Albania and Japan assume a new impetus, said Albania’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ditmir Bushati on Monday in Tokyo.
FM Bushati began today a visit to Japan during which he is scheduled to meet his counterpart, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Taro Kono.
The visit focuses on bilateral cooperation and promotion of economic relations between the two countries.
In this context, FM Bushati met today Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko, President of the Japanese Business Federation Yoshio Sato.
FM Bushati also attended the event organized on this occasion by the embassy of Albania in Tokyo “An Albanian Day in Tokyo” on promotion of the fields of activity of the Albanian business in the Japanese Market and Albania as a potential destination for the Japanese investors.
During the meeting of FM Bushati with Minister Seko, the talks focused on the current phase of the bilateral economic relations, their further intensification and focus on specific fields like infrastructure, tourism and agriculture.
FM Bushati expressed grateful thanks for the Japanese help with projects of development and emphasized that it is high time the economic relations between Albania and Japan to assume a new impetus even in context of the Japanese Western Balkans Cooperation Initiative.
FM Bushati acquainted Minister Seko with Albania’s progress on the road of EU integration and invited the Japanese government and enterprises to support the initiated projects through other initiatives in the region in the context even of the Berlin process and the strategic partnership that Japan has with the EU. Minister Seko extended an invitation for the Albanian entrepreneurs to attend Expo Osaka Fair 2025 as a good way of presentation of the Albanian products in the Japanese market.
In his speech delivered to the “An Albanian Day in Tokyo” event, FM Bushati emphasized that “Albania is a country of great potential for investment and offers a solid platform for increasing Japanese investments in the Western Balkans region.
During this visit, FM Bushati is accompanied by a Parliamentary delegation and representatives of the business community in Albania.
At the end of the first day of the visit, FM Bushati and the representatives of the Albanian business held a fruitful meeting with the Japanese Business Federation during which it was discussed on the opportunities and the concrete fields of investments in Albania like in energy, tourism and infrastructure and the ways of increasing the trade exchanges with Japan.
“We positively assess Japan’s added attention to our region and the Western Balkans Initiative consists an important instrument for promotion of closer relations between our countries”, said he.
FM Bushati gave assurances to the Japanese interlocutors that Albania, thanks to its geographic position and the reforms undertaken for its development and its approach with the EU, actually consists a very favourable entrance gate to foreign investments for a an even larger market including all the Balkans region.
On the second day of his Japan visit, FM Bushati will meet his counterpart Komo, visit Japanese Parliament, JICA and JETRO./gj.mima/ j.p/p.s./
