Commerce adviser Sk Bashir Uddin has assured of extending all necessary cooperation to Japanese entrepreneurs and businesspeople who were interested to invest in Bangladesh.聽
He gave the assurance while speaking as chief guest at a seminar on 鈥業nvestment Promotion鈥� at a hotel in Tokyo on Tuesday morning during which he urged Japanese entrepreneurs and businesspeople to invest more in Bangladesh.聽
He said that Japan was a very trusted friend of Bangladesh and also the largest development partner of Bangladesh as a single country.聽
He thanked the Japanese government for its continued support and cooperation towards the development of Bangladesh, said a ministry press release.聽
At the seminar, Bangladesh Investment Development Authority executive chairman Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun made a power-point presentation on investment opportunities in Bangladesh.聽
Nahian Rahman Rochi, head of business development of BIDA, and Yuji Ando, representative of JETRO in Bangladesh, participated in the panel discussion titled 鈥業nvestment Potentials in Post-Reform Bangladesh鈥�.
Bangladesh ambassador to Japan Md Daud Ali, senior vice-president of JICA Sachiko Imoto and senior vice-president of JETRO Kazuya Nakajo spoke at the seminar.
Economic minister of the Bangladesh embassy in Japan, representatives from the Bangladesh Bank and National Board of Revenue and commercial counsellor Tokyo were present at the event.聽
The seminar was jointly organised by the BIDA, Japan International Cooperation Agency and Japan External Trade Organization. More than a hundred entrepreneurs and businesspeople from Japan participated in the seminar.聽
Meanwhile, commerce adviser Sk Bashir Uddin met with Ogushi Masaki, state minister of economy, trade and industry of Japan on Tuesday and discussed in details bilateral trade, investment and economic partnership agreement and the Public-Private Economic Dialogue.聽
In the meeting, the commerce adviser requested the Japanese state minister to take measures so that more Japanese companies invest in Bangladesh.聽
Bashir said that currently there was a favourable investment situation in Bangladesh as Bangladesh Single Window had been launched in the country to provide services to the investors in a speedy manner.
He requested the Japanese investors to avail of this service.聽
The Japanese state minister also urged the commerce adviser to expedite process for economic partnership agreement.聽
In the meeting, both the adviser and the state minister expressed their keen intention to work together to strengthen the bilateral trade.