Cooperation between Senegal and Japan, although satisfactory according to local authorities, must enter a new phase. This is the message that the Minister of Vocational Training issued the Japan ambassador to Dakar. Moustapha Njekk Sarré, who represented the government during the celebration of the National Day of Japan, detailed the areas of progress of exchanges between the two countries. “Cooperation between our two countries is far from having reached its full potential. The immense opportunities that remain to be seized should be exploited to meet the challenges of development (…) The private sectors of the two countries have a crucial role to play. It becomes appropriate to strengthen these relations in priority sectors such as oil, gas, mines, urban transport, trade, agriculture and farming, health, industrialization and capacity building of Senegalese SMEs, “said Moustapha Njekk Sarré last Friday, during the National Day of Japan. Which was normally to be commemorated last February, but with Ramadan, the Japanese Embassy decided to repel it. Takeshi Akamatsu preferred to return to the results of cooperation between the two countries in 2024. The Japan ambassador in Dakar recalled that in July, the port of Dakar welcomed, for the first time in 16 years, the training fleet of the Maritime Force of Japanese self -defense, marking a significant advance in our cooperation in maritime security. The diplomat also noted the participation of the Minister of African Integration and Foreign Affairs in the Ministerial Meeting of the Ticad. Takeshi Akamatsu also recalled Sonko’s words during the CFPT 40th anniversary, on the Japanese approach. “Japan does not give fish, but teaches how to fish them,” said the head of government.
“In March, we inaugurated a project of agricultural wells equipped with solar pumps in Kébémer. It was an opportunity for me to note that Japanese cooperation concretely improves life in rural areas, “Japan ambassador told Dakar.
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