Top-level Japanese and Central American officials will meet in Tokyo in early August to discuss cooperation in weathering a spate of hurricane-triggered floods and other natural disasters that have afflicted the region in recent years.
Japan has provided technical cooperation to Central America in the area of disaster prevention as part of its official development assistance, but Foreign Ministry officials on Saturday noted that the conference will be the first of its kind to be held in Japan.
Participants will include deputy ministerial-level officials of several Central American nations, including Nicaragua, Honduras, Dominica, Panama and Venezuela, as well as senior officials of the Foreign Ministry, National Land Agency and the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the officials said, requesting anonymity.