Japanese Envoy for Realizing Free and Open Indo-Pacific

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh ITO Naoki has emphasized the importance of realizing Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP), a vision to realize peace, stability and prosperity in the region.

He was delivering a lecture styled "Contemporary Japan: Its Foreign Policy, Security and Development Strategy" as a guest speaker of the National Defense Course 2021 at the National Defense College (NDC), Bangladesh.

In his lecture, Ambassador ITO also emphasized engagement of Japan to realize prosperity of Bangladesh and maintain peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region, reports BSS.

Ambassador ITO described the challenging security environment especially in Asia, and Japan's Foreign and Defense policy as well as its international development cooperation strategy.

Around 90 course members, including those from 13 countries attended the lecture and discussed various international issues and relationship between Japan and Bangladesh.