OREANDA-NEWS. September 27, 2011. Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine - Chief of Staff Volodymyr Pavlenko called up the Japanese businessmen to invest to Ukraine. He said this during the Third Meeting of the Coordinating Council for Economic Cooperation with Japan at the Ministry and the Committee for Economic Co-operation with Ukraine of the Japan Business Federation "Keidanren", which passed in Kyiv.

"We consider Japan as one of the most important foreign trade partners of Ukraine in general and one of the key economic partners in Asia-Pacific region", - Volodymyr Pavlenko said, adding that a meeting of the Coordinating Council is a good opportunity to strengthen and further develop mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries.

The Deputy Minister noted that the Coordinating Council and the Committee "Keidanren" had an important task - to identify key strategic directions for bilateral cooperation in the economic sector and develop mutually beneficial ways for their implementation. He added that one of the primary tasks was to balance the trade between countries, as well as increasing the volume of exports and imports of goods and services.

"We have great hopes for this collaboration with Japanese partners in the realization of large investment projects in our state. I am convinced that this meeting will become a landmark in the context of the deepening and development of relations between Ukraine and Japan", - said Deputy Minister.

In turn, the Chairman of the Committee for Economic Cooperation with Ukraine "Keidanren", CEO of the corporation "Sumitomo" Motoyuki Oka said that Japanese corporations paid more attention to new emerging markets because these markets is expected to high growth, "Our interest to your country is growing rapidly in recent years".

According to Motoyuki Oka for the business community positive is that the new Government of Ukraine led by President Viktor Yanukovych holds stable governance and sustainable movement towards greater economic growth.

"The uncertainty is a very serious barrier to business development in your country is eliminated. That gives Japanese corporations hope that your Government will actively pursue measures to improve the business climate and more convergence of economic reform. Japanese business assigns greater hopes for those actions which are spent and in the further will be spent in your country" - said the Chapter of Committee of the Business Cooperation with Ukraine "Keidanren". He added that the general interest to business representatives of countries played an energy-saving, infrastructure and agriculture.