(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida will promote the country's nuclear technology to help Japanese companies win contracts in Jordan. Kishida plans to visit Israel, Palestine and Jordan later this month to discuss Middle East peace and Japan's economic cooperation with the region. A Japanese-French consortium is competing with a Russian firm to build a nuclear power plant in Jordan, Japan's (NHK World) reported. Kishida plans to explain to Jordanian ministers that Japan has top-level nuclear technology. He will also stress that the government and the private sector have been improving the safety of nuclear power generation since the Fukushima Daiichi accident in 2011. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is eager to help Japanese firms export their nuclear technology. When he toured the Middle East in May, he agreed with leaders from Turkey and United Arab Emirates to conclude agreements to transfer nuclear power technology.
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