At the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, it is expected that Bangladesh and Japan bilateral relations will be upgraded to the ‘strategic partnership’ of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's upcoming visit to Japan from November 29 to December 1.
According to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and Director General of Southeast and South West Asia, Arima Utaka, discussed this issue during a meeting with Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Thursday (October 27).
In the meeting, both parties expressed their satisfaction with the growing bilateral relations between the two friendly countries, especially Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to Japan in May 2014, when the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and the then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe raised the bilateral relations between the two countries to a ‘wide partnership’.
In addition, in September 2014, the then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Bangladesh, the two countries formed a deep economic partnership under BIG-B.
The visiting Japan Assistant Minister expressed hope that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's upcoming visit to Japan on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh-Japan friendship will be a milestone in the history of Bangladesh-Japan bilateral relations.
Source: Bass
