Acting Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan on Wednesday received the newly appointed Ambassador of Japan to Armenia, Masanori Fukushima.
Rustam Badasyan greeted and congratulated the Ambassador on his appointment and wished him success in the development of relations between the two countries.
The ambassador thanked for the reception and noted that the Japanese Government highly appreciates Rustam Badasyan’s participation in the 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice held in Japan in March this year. According to Ambassador Fukushima, Armenia and Japan should further strengthen their relations, as he sees its potential, especially in high tech and culture as well as in the judicial sphere.
Badasyan, in turn, thanked the Japanese government for its $3.6 million in humanitarian aid provided to Armenia to reduce the effect of the consequences of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war last fall, and reflected on the broad agenda of cooperation in the judicial sphere discussed during a meeting with his Japanese colleague.
At the end of their talk, the parties expressed readiness for personal contribution for the benefit of the development of Armenia-Japan relations.
