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Urged the Kurdistan Regional Government, on Monday, Japan for a wider participation of investment and economic activities in the region, and called on the head of government to visit Erbil, while encouraging the Japanese government confirmed its work on the region, and support a portion of the coverage given to the reconstruction of Iraq.
This came during a meeting with the Prime Minister of Kurdistan, Barzani, today, in Erbil, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Nobuo Kishi, and his entourage, including the Japanese ambassador in Iraq, according to a statement by the Kurdistan Regional Government, received a (long-Presse) a copy of it.
The statement said that "Barzani expressed his happiness for the visit of the Japanese delegation to Iraq in general and Kurdistan region in particular," calling for Japanese companies to "about participating in a broader investment activities and the development of economic and trade relations with the Kurdistan region."
The statement, that "Barzani face a formal invitation to the Japanese Prime Minister, to visit the Kurdistan region of Iraq, while on a visit."
For his part, expressed the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Nobuo Kishi, according to the statement, "his country's desire to develop its relations with the Kurdistan region," adding that there are "a lot of Japanese companies operating in the region on a humanitarian level."
The quiche, according to the statement, "the ministry to encourage Japanese companies to participate in investment activities in the Kurdistan region," and expressed "support for his government to grant a share of the grant provided by the process of development and reconstruction in Iraq, to the Kurdistan region."
According to the statement, that "the two sides discussed other topics, including relations between Erbil and Baghdad, and the political situation in the region in general, and the relations of the Kurdistan region and Turkey, particularly in the field of cooperation in the energy sector and a project to export oil region to the world markets through the Turkish territory."
It is noteworthy that the Japanese government opened a consulate in Erbil, in 2008, and appointed businessman Kurdish Azad Bajger, consul her, to organize it to countries that have diplomatic representation in the region, including the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Iran and the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, as well as states have branch offices in the region, such as Germany and South Korea.
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