Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Tuesday and invited him for the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new capital at Amaravati.
Appreciating the efforts of the AP government to attract investments, Mr. Abe promised that Japan would extend all possible financial and technical assistance for building of the capital. Mr. Naidu also requested Mr. Abe to make some institutionalised arrangements for improving the relationship between AP and Japan, to which the Japanese Prime Minister replied in the affirmative, according to a press release from the Chief Minister’s Office.
Later, Mr. Naidu also presented Tirupati prasadam and a shawl to Mr. Abe. Before meeting the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Naidu also had a brief interaction with the Chief Cabinet Secretary of the that country, Yoshihide Suga. Later, in a meeting with Akihiro Ohta of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Mr. Naidu sought the cooperation of the MLIT in construction of ports, airports, roads in Andhra Pradesh .
Mr. Ohta said: “Since AP has a long coastline on the East, it is logistically close to Japan. With many Buddhist sites, AP is very attractive to us.”
