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Press release: Sturanovic meets Nagai

Published on: Dec 20, 2006 11:33 PM Author: Naslovna strana
Prime Minister Zeljko Sturanovic met in Podgorica today with Japanese Ambassador in Belgrade Tadasi Nagai, as part of Mr Nagais official visit to Montenegro.

In discussion it was agreed that bilateral relations and cooperation had shown an upward trend, which still had to be reinforced, particularly in the economic field.

Ambassador Nagai congratulated the Prime Minister on his appointment and conveyed congratulations from the Japanese Government on Montenegros accession to NATOs Partnership for Peace Program. He expressed the readiness of the Japanese side to help develop Montenegros economic potentials and recognized tourism and associated industries as areas of particular interest. In this regard, he emphasized Japans readiness to help produce the so-called tourist map of Montenegro.

Ambassador Nagai also said that programs and plans associated with the ongoing and new assistance projects would be continued in the spirit of friendship and cooperation. With regard to this, he noted the importance of the recently signed Agreement on Japanese Assistance to Medical Institutions in Montenegro.

Having thanked for the congratulations, Prime Minister Sturanovic stressed that the Japanese Governments continued support for concrete programs and projects in the field of healthcare, education, science and culture in Montenegro were significant for Montenegros overall socio-economic development. In view of the Montenegrin governments commitment to develop an open economic system and integrate, as much as possible, into the regional market and beyond, he stressed that Montenegro was interested in Japans participation in major infrastructure projects in the field of transport, energy, environmental protection, etc.

With regard to issues of regional cooperation, the Prime Minister said that the Central European Free Trade Agreement, the so-called CEFTA 2006, would help strengthen economic cooperation between the signatories and economic development of the region as a whole.
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