CP RECEIVES JAPANESE OFFICIAL

DEPUTY OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING CROWN  PRINCE SHAIKH SALMAN BIN HAMAD AL KHALIFA RECEIVED TODAY  JAPANESE PARLIAMENTARY VICE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS YASUTOSHI  NISHIMURA.

THE CROWN PRINCE ENQUIRED ABOUT THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN JAPAN  AND THE STEPS TAKEN TO OVERCOME THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS.HE  ALSO LAUDED THE JAPANESE PEOPLE’S SPIRIT OF CREATIVITY WHICH, HE SAID,  SETS UP A MODEL TO EMULATE.

THIS BRIGHT AND INNOVATIVE SPIRIT FELT IN LAST OCTOBER’S VISIT TO JAPAN  GIVES CONFIDENCE IN THE ABILITY OF THIS COUNTRY TO MOVE AHEAD, THE  CROWN PRINCE SAID.

HE ALSO REITERATED BAHRAIN’S READINESS TO PROVIDE JAPANESE  INVESTORS WITH ALL NEEDED FACILITIES TO BOOST THEIR ACTIVITIES IN THE  KINGDOM.

THE CROWN PRINCE EXPRESSED RESPECT FOR THE JAPANESE NAVY’S  PARTICIPATION IN BACKING THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL’S RESOLUTION AIMED  AT ROOTING OUT PIRACY.

IT IS A SOURCE OF PLEASURE TO SEE THE JAPANESE  NAVY PLAY ITS PART IN FULFILLING HUMANITARIAN DUTIES ALONGSIDE  INTERNATIONAL PEACE-KEEPING FORCES, HE SAID.

NISHIMURA PRAISED THE CROWN PRINCE’S POTENTIALS AND SOUND  ECONOMIC VISIONS COMMENDING HIS POSITIVE VISIT TO JAPAN.HE ALSO  GAVE A DETAILED PRESENTATION OF THE JAPANESE ECONOMIC PLAN  VOICING HIS COUNTRY’S OPTIMISM TO SURMOUNT THE GLOBAL DOWNTURN.

PRESENT AT THE MEETING WAS CROWN PRINCE COURT’S HEAD SHAIKH  KHALIFA BIN DUAIJ AL KHALIFA.