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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday iterated his country’s support for Bangladesh in repatriation of Roh-ingyas to their homeland Myanmar.
“Bangladesh has sheltered over one million displaced persons from Myanmar and we will continue to support its endeav-our,” Kishida said
“We have upgraded our bilateral relationship to strategic partnership,” he said in a joint statement after holding bilateral talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo.
He added that both the countries will work to increase bilateral relations in different areas and to expand the cooperation in the international community.
Kishida said that in the meeting today both the countries have affirmed their commitment to uphold free and open interna-tional order based on the rule of law as strategic partners at a time, when the international order stands at a historic turn-ing point.
He said the two countries have agreed to further strengthen the bilateral relations in a wide range of areas based on a new plan for free and open Indo-Pacific point announced last month.
“In the economic field, we agreed to make every progress through joint studies on the possibilities of Japan- Bangladesh Economic Partnership Agreement,” he said.
The Japanese Premier said that Bangladesh with its remarkable economic development is an attractive investment destina-tion and as such it is his countries (Japan’s) expectation that establishment of economic zones and improvement of invest-ment environment will further strengthen economic relations between the two countries.
