JICE received an official visit of Mr. Salim Hassan Al-Asmarei, Director, and Mr. Shaikh Suhail Iqbal, Education Manager of Saudi Japan Automobile High Institute in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on January 26.

Ms. Sachiko Yamano, President of JICE, and the team of International Training Department welcomed them at its headquarters.

Ms.Yamano started the meeting by expressing appreciation to Mr. Al-Asmarei and Mr. Suhail for their visit to JICE. She then talked about JICE’s activities and further cooperation between the SJAHI and JICE.

Mr. Al-Asmarei expressed his expectation to the project that JICE has been assigned as an implementing organization of Japanese side by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and has organized the training programs in Japan and dispatch of long term experts.

JICE will continuously give effort to contribute to the human resource development programs of Saudi Arabia.

* SJAHI was established in September 2002 based on the cooperation between public and private enterprise of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Japan (Japanese side: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association ( JAMA)) by the request of the Government of Saudi Arabia. After the cooperation by JICA completed in 2009, JICE was assigned as an implementing organization of Japanese side from Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and has organized the training programs in Japan, dispatch of long term experts, provisions of equipment and materials since the assignment.