Implementation of the Cooperation for the Sakhalin Region

February 23, 2006

The Government of Japan has decided to extend technical grant aid equivalent to 150 million yen to the Administration of the Sakhalin Region, Russian Federation, with a view to promoting its economic and social reforms. Notes Verbales to this effect were exchanged on February 22, 2006, between the Embassy of Japan in the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The signing for the implementation agreement took place between Mr. Hiroyuki Imahashi, acting Consul-General in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and Mr. Ivan Pavlovich Malakhov, Governor of the Sakhalin Region.
Japan places importance to the cooperative relationship with the neighboring Sakhalin Region. It is expected that Japan's assistance to the economic and social reforms of the Region will not only contribute to the development of corporate activities and human exchanges between Japan and the Sakhalin Region but also promote the understanding of Japan in the Sakhalin Region.

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