‘Lithuania is open and ready to do whatever is necessary to make the economic cooperation between Lithuania and Japan a success,’ said Prime Minister Šimonytė in her speech at the opening of the High-Tech Business event, noting that both countries share the values of democracy and the rule of law, the market economy and fair competition, and that these commonalities create greater trust and open up a great potential for ties between the business communities.
The Prime Minister has highlighted the prospects for deeper cooperation in the fields of lasers, life sciences, engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence, and space technologies.
The same day, Prime Minister Šimonytė has opened another event - Lithuania-Japan Food Business Forum, which has provided ample opportunities for discussions on partnership and trade between the two countries in the fields of the food industry and agricultural products, focusing on high-quality organic and innovative food products.
In her opening speech, the Prime Minister has welcomed the fact that the high-quality Lithuanian products are finding their way to the Japan’s market and already now have loyal local customers. The Prime Minister has added that Lithuania, too, with its safe and business-friendly environment, is ready for closer cooperation and can become a gateway to the EU market for Japanese companies.
‘Today we are living in geopolitical realities that negatively affect all sectors across the globe. Until recently, who could have imagined that Russia would bomb Ukrainian fields, and weaponize food, or who could have imagined that autocratic regimes would extensively weaponize energy, disrupt chains of supplies just to blackmailing democratic nations. In these challenging times, democratic nations re-discover the benefits of working as a community; of doing more business with each other, and of relying more on the markets that are governed by the rule of law,’ said Prime Minister Šimonytė in her speech at the opening of the Forum.
At the meeting with the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), the parties have discussed the economic relations between Lithuania and Japan and their future, also investment opportunities in Lithuania. Prime Minister Šimonytė has pointed out that the having set the goal of diversifying export markets, the Lithuanian Government sees Japan as a particularly important partner in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Prime Minister has invited the Kaidanren leadership to visit Lithuania.
