Mayor of Sarajevo Ivo Komšić met today with the Ambassador of Japan to BiH Hideo Yamazaki, who sent congratulations for his appointment.
“Your country is one of the biggest bilateral donors and you have played a significant part in the reconstruction of Sarajevo and BiH. The help of Japan was especially important in the area of traffic and donations such as medical equipment and teaching books, as well as musical instruments for the Sarajevo philharmonic’’, said Komšić.
The Japanese Ambassador stressed help to our country and in the form of small projects at the local level: “We are financing the realization of 10 projects a year, and this year is included on Sarajevo elementary school’’, said Ambassador Yamazaki. He expressed his wish of the Embassy to introduce the teaching of Japanese language at the University of Sarajevo.
Speaking on projects such as the Trebević lifts and the roads linking Sarajevo and East Sarajevo, which is in the program of this city administration according to Mayor Komšić, Ambassador Yamazaki said that these two projects are important for the process of reconciliation and for the further development of Sarajevo. He assessed that tourism is a very important industry for the development of BIH and its capital, as well as the energy sector for which Japanese companies that are increasingly opening representative offices in our country and showing interest.
Ambassador Yamazaki thanked the citizens of Sarajevo, City of Sarajevo and state institutions once again for the solidarity and help during the catastrophic earthquake and accompanying tsunami that struck in Japan two years ago, in an announcement from the City of Sarajevo.
