Strengthening partnership with Japan
So dear friends, I will briefly inform you about the results of the trip to Gdansk (Poland) for the Conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine.
3 days of a frantic pace, fatigue, hardly anyone is interested except for relatives, so I will not talk about this, but what is useful for the Trostyanets municipality.
We held a fruitful meeting with representatives of the Japanese public-private Agency, which unites many Japanese businesses.
We have been friends with the head of the Association Kazuo Ueda for two years and the meeting within the framework of the conference gave us the opportunity not online, but in person to calmly discuss all our current developments and promising projects.
Mr. Ueda said that the third vehicle for waste collection for Trostyanets municipality will soon be in the port of Belgium and will then head to Trostyanets city.
But there was still good news for Trostyanets, in August a Komatsu bulldozer purchased in Japan will be sent to the port in Odessa to work on our landfill and other areas that require planning after the war.
Of course, we discussed further possible areas of cooperation, especially between businesses.
I will not describe the details here yet, but the ideas and areas are interesting.
We introduced Mr. Ueda to representatives of our ministries: Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України Oleksiy Ryabykin and the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine.
As a result, a Memorandum was signed between the Japan PPP/PFI Association and the Agency for Public-Private Partnership of Ukraine, with the participation of Deputy Minister of the Minister of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine Serhiy Derkach.
And at the end of the conversation, I gave our Japanese friends gifts from Trostyanets hromada: a commemorative medal “Trostyanets – the first liberated Ukrainian city. City-Hero“, and the book “Chronicle of the Unconquered City of Trostyanets”.
We agreed with Tomoko Hoshino to find resources to translate and publish the book in Japanese.
So Japan and Ukraine, Japan and Trostyanets are becoming closer to each other and it is inspiring!
In the following publications I will continue to talk about the results.
And of course, the trip was made possible with the assistance of Ministry of Regional Development, Sumy Regional Military Administration, Swiss-Ukrainian project DECIDE, Valentyna Poltorak, to whom many thanks!
