Venezuela receives Style Copies from Japanese Ambassador Yasushi Sato

Published at: 25/04/2024 03:29 PM

The Minister of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, received this Thursday the Style Copies of the designated ambassador of Japan to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Yasushi Sato.

From the Casa Amarilla Antonio José de Sucre, in Caracas, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister stated that with this reception “new opportunities are opening up to strengthen bilateral relations and reactivate trade for mutual benefit.”

Sato, who held the position of Consul General in Barcelona, Spain, since 2020, was born in Tokyo in 1961 and joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984, where he developed an extensive diplomatic career leading different areas, such as the Second Regional Group of the Non-Refundable Economic Cooperation Division (2003) and the Andean Office of the First Division of Latin America (2001).

Before his diplomatic responsibility in Barcelona, he was Deputy Consul General in Miami, United States (2009) and first secretary of the Embassy of Japan in Peru (2005).

He also served as director of the Cultural and Information Section of the Embassy of Japan in Mexico (1998), second secretary of the embassy of his country in Chile (1995), third in the Embassy in Uruguay (1987) and two years earlier, he lived in Spain to learn the language.

The first contact between Venezuela and Japan for the official establishment of bilateral relations was in 1910, although the establishment of the Japanese legation in Caracas took place in 1938.

In addition to energy exchange -in the oil and gas sector-, the bonds of brotherhood and cooperation between the parties have been marked by culture, as well as by commercial and scientific collaboration.

MPPRE