Japan’s first resident ambassador to Armenia presents his credentials to President

Eiji Taguchi, the first Resident Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of Armenia, today handed over his credentials to President Serzh Sargsyan.

The Armenian president congratulated Ambassador Taguchi on his appointment and stressed that it is a great honor and responsibility to be the first resident ambassador and contribute to the continued strengthening of friendship between the two states and peoples. The president wished success to the newly-appointed Japanese ambassador in fulfilling that mission. Serzh Sargsyan expressed satisfaction with the positive dynamics of Armenian-Japanese relations achieved in recent years and expressed the hope that the activities of Japan’s newly-opened embassy in Armenia will help to maintain that dynamics, enhance multifaceted friendly ties between Armenia and Japan and bring to life the high-level bilateral agreements.

The president warmly recalled his visit to Japan in 2012 and his productive meetings which, according to Serzh Sargsyan, gave fresh impetus to broadening the bilateral cooperation agenda and pushing it forward.

Ambassador Taguchi thanked the president for his congratulations and best wishes and assured him that he will make every effort to maintain the progress made in bilateral interstate relations during former Ambassador Chikahito Harada’s tenure, intensify contacts aimed at mutual understanding and to deepen, inter alia, economic and cultural cooperation.

At the meeting, the parties attached importance to inter-parliamentary cooperation and intensive activities of parliamentary friendship groups, building up close contacts between foreign ministries, as well as to the broadening and improvement of the bilateral legal framework.