The Diplomat
The ambassador of Japan in Spain, Takahiro Nakamae, has assured that, in a world that “is at a turning point in history”, Japanese, Spanish and Latin American companies must work “together in the global market as commercial partners of trust”.
This past Wednesday in Madrid, the ambassador chaired a business lunch organized by the Alianza por Iberoamérica Business Council (CEAPI), in which the president of CEAPI, Núria Vilanova, also participated, and which was attended by the association’s partners and guests.
“Both Japan and Spain are mature markets, with no prospects for quantitative easing,” said Takahiro Nakamae during his speech. “Relations with the Indo-Pacific, a center of global growth, and the Ibero-American countries, which possess and produce important mineral and food resources and are also key points of maritime traffic, are of strategic importance,” he continued.
“Today’s world is at a turning point in history,” the ambassador warned. “It is precisely at times like this when it is worthwhile for Japanese, Spanish and Latin American companies to work together in the global market as trusted business partners,” he concluded.
For her part, Núria Vilanova stated that “Japan and the Ibero-American countries are committed to intensifying their relationship.” “Latin America and Spain can be great allies at a geopolitical level, as well as important suppliers of energy and materials” and, therefore, “strengthening the ties between these regions benefits us in expanding markets in the world,” she added.
The president of the business council took advantage of her intervention to remember the celebration of the VII Ibero-American CEAPI Congress for Presidents of Companies and Business Families, which will take place from June 17 to 19, 2024 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. And event, under the title Believe, Grow, Create. Ibero-America, faced with the challenge of growth and productivity, is moving to Latin American territory for the second time, after the event in the Dominican Republic in 2022, and will have the participation of 500 presidents of the main multi-Bero-American companies with investments on both sides of the Atlantic.
“One of the topics that we are going to bring to Colombia is the discourse of the new ‘players’ in Latin America, which are Japanese families, for example, who are beginning to be important investors in Latin America, as well as India, Korea or the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman,” she explained.
