Bangladesh-Japan Committed To Elevate Friendship To Partnership

A joint statement, issued after talks between Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said the two leaders agreed for developing economic infrastructure for industrial growth, improving investment environment to attract foreign businesses and enhancing social development.

Prime Minister Abe underscored the urgency of an improvement of investment environment in Bangladesh, including infrastructure development, stable energy supply, development of industrial parks and accelerated processing of permits, licenses, etc. in order to further facilitate and promote Japanese investment in Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina acknowledged the issues raised and assured of taking necessary measures to facilitate accelerated realization of the Japanese investments in Bangladesh, the statement said.

The two Prime Ministers noted that people-to-people interaction and exchanges and cultural exchanges between the two countries should be broadened further.

In this regard, Prime Minister Abe mentioned that positive consideration would be given to the request to expand the number of Bangladeshi government officials in the Japanese Grant Aid Project for Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS).

The two Prime Ministers thus launched the 'Japan-Bangladesh Comprehensive Partnership'. Both the Prime Ministers also decided to detail the modalities at the earliest.

-Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)