Bangladesh and Japan expect to elevate bilateral relations to the ‘Strategic Partnership’ level during the upcoming visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Japan on November 29 to December 1 at the invitation of Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida.
This was discussed when the Assistant Minister and Director General of Southeast and Southwest Asian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan ARIMA Yutaka called on Foreign Secretary Ambassador Masud Bin Momen on Thursday, officials of the foreign ministry said.
The visiting Japanese Assistant Minister expected that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming visit to Japan in the year of the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh-Japan friendship would be a milestone in the history of Bangladesh-Japan bilateral relations.
Both sides expected that during the upcoming visit, Bangladesh and Japan would foster deeper economic partnership in terms of development cooperation, trade and investment, human resources development, agriculture, ICT, education, defence dialogue and exchanges, people-to-people connectivity, repatriation of Rohingyas, etc.
The two sides also expressed the desire to enhance cooperation in international fora, including on climate change, UN reforms, disarmament and non-proliferation, etc.
Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh Ito Naoki and the Director General (East Asia and Pacific) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also joined the call.
Assistant Minister/ Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan is on a two-day visit to Dhaka to discuss the preparations for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming visit to Japan.
