Foreign Minister Kono talks with Slovenian Foreign Minister to cooperate in expanding Japanese companies' investment 15:54 on August 15

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Foreign Minister Kono, who visited Slovenia for the first time as a foreign minister in Japan, met with Foreign Minister Zellar, investing Japanese companies in light of the fact that Slovenia has strengthened the IT industry and has become a new logistics base for the EU = European Union. We agreed to cooperate for the expansion of.

Foreign Minister Kono, visiting Europe, met with Foreign Minister Zellal in Slovenia, the first Japanese Foreign Minister to visit on the evening of the 14th of Japan time.

In this context, the two foreign ministers will cooperate to expand investment by Japanese companies, taking into account that Slovenia has strengthened advanced science and technology fields such as the IT industry and AI = artificial intelligence and has become a new logistics base for the EU. It was agreed by doing.

After the meeting, the two foreign ministers visited an industrial robot production plant that started operations in Slovenia in April after a Japanese company, and watched a demonstration of a robot that paints industrial products.

Minister Kono told reporters, "I'm glad that Slovenia values ​​Japanese companies, and I want many Japanese companies to expand into Slovenia, which has a geographical advantage in logistics in Europe." It was.