Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
5 May 2005
Maputo — Japan intends to double its development aid to Mozambique, and indeed to the African continent as a whole.
This promise was repeated in Maputo today by Keishiro Fukushima, Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs in the Japanese Foreign Ministry, speaking to reporters shortly after he had been received by Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo.
Fukushima said the two had discussed matters seeking to further strengthen cooperation between Mozambique and Japan in various areas.
They also discussed how to create the appropriate environment for Japanese businesses to invest in Mozambique.
Fukushima declined to give any figures on this year's Japanese aid, since the sums are still under discussion between the two countries. But he insisted that it would amount to a doubling of the previous year's aid.
Japanese aid to Mozambique has so far gone mainly into education, infrastructures, fisheries, energy and mineral resources.
Japan has described 2005 as the year for improving its assistance to Africa, un the framework of solidarity between Asia and Africa.
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