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Tokyo Asks GCC to Ease or Remove Restrictions on Japanese Food Imports
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Tokyo- (PanOrient News) Japan and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for the Arab States agreed to resume their negotiations, suspended since July 2009, on a free trade agreement, Foreign Ministry officials said.
The agreement was reached during talks between Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba and GCC representatives led by Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan , foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 66th regular session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Japan and the GCC also agreed to sign a memorandum at an early date for promoting exchanges in a wide range of areas with the aim of expanding and deepening their relations beyond energy business.
In discussing the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant in disaster-hit northeastern Japan, Genba reportedly asked the GCC to ease or remove the import restrictions its member countries currently impose on Japanese food.
The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council, is a political and economic union of the Arab states bordering the Gulf and constituting the Arabian Peninsula, namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.
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