Push for more Bahrain-Japan cooperation in space science

Agencies | Tokyo

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Minister of Industry and Commerce, Abdulla bin Adel Fakhro, has stressed the importance of strengthening the foundations of fruitful cooperation between Bahrain and Japan in the field of space, due to this sector’s influential contributions to building a diversified competitive economy, based on knowledge and innovation.

The minister was speaking as he visited the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), in the presence of Minister of Sustainable Development, Noor bint Ali Al Khulaif, within the framework of the official visit of Bahrain’s economic delegation to Japan.

During the visit, Fakhro and the accompanying delegation listened to a detailed explanation of the mechanisms of work of the agency, as one of the most important international agencies working in the field of space exploration, and space technologies development.