PM declares dedicated taskforce for Japanese investors
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today announced constitution of a dedicated taskforce to support the Japanese companies to do their business conveniently in Bangladesh.
"We highly value the Japanese investment," she said adding forty industrial plots in the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) areas were kept reserved exclusively for the Japanese investors. She hoped that Japanese investors would respond positively to the gesture.
Hasina was addressing a seminar on Investment and Business Opportunities in Bangladesh at the headquarters of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) here.
The Bangladesh premier said it gave her great pleasure to speak before the JETRO leaders with the earnest hope that it would strengthen the existing collaboration between the two countries.
"As leaders of the private sector, you have produced miracles in economic development through exceptional entrepreneurship, hard work and sincerity," she told the JETRO members.
She said, despite many odds, Japanese investors have associated their innovation and human resources with all nations and have been helping the least developed and developing countries over the decades.
Bangladesh is one of those countries which were benefited from Japanese trade, investment and technological cooperation, she added.
Midori Matsushima, state minister of economy, trade and industry of Japan, Koji Takayanagi, committee chairman of the Japan-Bangladesh committee for commercial and economic cooperation, Hiroyuki Ishige, chairman, JETRO also spoke on the occasion.
Later, a memorandum of understanding between Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authorities (BEPZA) and JETRO was signed on allocating plots for Japanese investors in BEPZA zones.
BEPZA Chairman Maj Gen Habibur Rahman and JETRO
Representative K Kawano inked the MoU in the presence of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina and state minister of economy, trade and industry of Japan Midori Matsushima.
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