Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held the first meeting of the Ministerial Meeting on Strategy relating Infrastructure Export and Economic Cooperation at the Prime Minister's Office.

Discussion took place on the issues of the Ministerial Meeting on Strategy relating Infrastructure Export and Economic Cooperation and Myanmar.

The Prime Minister said in his opening address,

"Supporting the overseas business of Japanese companies and pushing forward the export of the most advanced infrastructure system are an important pillar for the growth strategy, which is one of the 'three prongs.' I believe that the following three points are important when considering economic cooperation and the export of infrastructure:
1. to take in the growth of emerging economies, mainly in Asia, and link it with the revitalization of the Japanese economy,
2. to provide Japan's superior technology to the world and enrich people's living, and
3. to ensure as the government the safety of Japanese nationals working at overseas sites with top priority.
Japan must aim for achieving growth and prosperity together with the world, through these kinds of cooperation.
Based on such ideas, under my instruction, we have today inaugurated the ministerial meeting for comprehensively discussing the three areas of the economic cooperation, the export of infrastructure, and the obtaining of resources, headed by the Chief Cabinet Secretary. I expect that all Cabinet members will unite their efforts in creating specific strategies."