A dedicated taskforce will be constituted in a bid to support the Japanese companies to do their business conveniently in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.
The PM has made the announcement while addressing a seminar on “Investment and business opportunities in Bangladesh” at the headquarters of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) on Tuesday.
“Forty industrial plots in the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) areas were kept reserved exclusively for the Japanese investors,” Hasina said, adding: "We highly value the Japanese investment."
She hoped that Japanese investors would respond positively to the gesture.
"As leaders of the private sector, you have produced miracles in economic development through exceptional entrepreneurship, hard work and sincerity," the PM 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 has 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 Major General 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.
