TOKYO, Japan, twenty sixth September, 2022 (WAM) — H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nayan, member of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Office, who’s heading the UAE delegation to Japan, has met with the Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida, in Tokyo.
Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed conveyed the greetings of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to the Japanese Prime Minister.
During the assembly, His Highness witnessed the launch of a strategic partnership settlement between the UAE and Japan, which was introduced in 2018 throughout the go to of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the UAE.
The launch of the partnership coincides with the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of building bilateral relations between the 2 nations, and highlights the significance of strengthening cooperation between the international locations throughout numerous fields to additional advance progress and improvement, and to strengthen social and financial progress.
The strategic partnership settlement goals to strengthen bilateral ties to serve widespread pursuits by encouraging extra diplomatic, financial, political and business partnerships and by encouraging funding in each international locations.
The key areas of the partnership embody diplomacy, enhancing worldwide improvement and humanitarian help efforts, and cooperating throughout enterprise, commerce, vitality and trade by enhancing the enterprise surroundings to encourage commerce and funding throughout know-how, infrastructure, synthetic intelligence, healthcare, and SMEs, in addition to different high-priority sectors together with agriculture, the surroundings, local weather change options, schooling, science and know-how, and defence and safety.
The assembly was attended by Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and UAE Special Envoy to Japan, Shehab Ahmed Al Fahim, UAE Ambassador to Japan, and various officers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
The go to displays the depth of bilateral ties between the UAE and Japan throughout financial, business and diplomatic fields. Japan was one of many first international locations to ascertain diplomatic ties with the UAE in 1971, culminating within the opening of the UAE Embassy in Tokyo in December 1973 and the Embassy of Japan in Abu Dhabi in April 1974.
The UAE can also be Japan’s tenth largest buying and selling companion globally, in accordance with 2021 statistics, and Japan’s largest strategic companion within the subject of vitality, importing greater than 20 % of its oil from the UAE. The quantity of non-oil commerce between the 2 international locations in 2021 amounted to greater than AED49 billion, and continued to get well throughout the first half of 2022 to rise to pre-Covid-19 ranges, reaching round AED25.7 billion, a rise of two.7 % in contrast with the primary half of 2021.
The UAE can also be residence to greater than 340 Japanese corporations working in numerous sectors, together with know-how, renewable vitality, transportation, healthcare, infrastructure and manufacturing. The worth of Japanese investments within the nation has exceeded US$14 billion.