{"id":86036,"date":"2024-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2024\/05\/12\/crown-prince-to-visit-japan-next-week-trip-to-pakistan-is-on-the-table\/"},"modified":"2024-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"crown-prince-to-visit-japan-next-week-trip-to-pakistan-is-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2024\/05\/12\/crown-prince-to-visit-japan-next-week-trip-to-pakistan-is-on-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown Prince to visit Japan next week + trip to Pakistan is on the table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman is heading to <\/strong><strong>Japan<\/strong> and could soon visit Pakistan, two reasonably rare official trips outside of our region. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Prince Mohammed <\/strong><strong>will start a four-day official visit to Japan on Monday, 20 May<\/strong>, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mofa.go.jp\/me_a\/me2\/sa\/page7e_000051_00003.html\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement<\/a>. Bin Salman will hold separate meetings with Emperor Naruhito and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. It will be the Crown Prince\u2019s first visit to Tokyo since 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>In context: Saudi is Japan\u2019s top supplier of crude oil<\/strong> and its eighth-largest trade partner, with some USD 42 bn in goods and services flowing between the two last year. The Public Investment Fund is also the largest shareholder of videogame maker Nintendo, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-05-10\/saudi-arabia-s-crown-prince-to-visit-japan-later-this-month?sref=mmeFTDW1\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> points out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>AND- Arrangements are being \u201cworked out\u201d for the Crown Prince\u2019s visit to Pakistan<\/strong>, Pakistan\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/543501-muhammad-bin-salmans-visit-to-pakistan-deferred\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Geo News<\/a> reported yesterday, citing officials in that country\u2019s government. Plans for the visit were first made public by Pakistan\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar last week after the conclusion of a visit by a delegation of senior Saudi officials to Pakistan during which they attended a two-day investment conference. There had been rumblings that the visit could take place as early as this month, but officials have yet to confirm a date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The visit could help help close a series of agreements important to Pakistan: <\/strong>Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan visited <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/ksa\/en\/news\/story\/d2cc076a-3ccd-4038-b2dc-874b485fd02a\/saudi-eyeing-significant-investments-in%253cmark%253e-pakistan%253c%2Fmark%253e,-says-bin-farhan\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Pakistan last month<\/a> nearly a week after Pakistan\u2019s prime minister <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/saudi-crown-prince-meets-pakistani-premier-stresses-india-pakistan-dialogue-2024-04-08\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">discussed a USD 5 bn investment package<\/a> during a meeting in Makkah with the Crown Prince. Saudi has been among key supporters of crisis-hit Pakistan, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.pk\/node\/2417451\/pakistan\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">extending the term<\/a> of a USD 3 bn in deposit at the State Bank of Pakistan for an additional year to mature in December 2024. This is in addition to USD 2 bn in financial assistance from the Kingdom&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/saudi-arabia-deposits-2-bln-pakistan-central-bank-account-pakistan-finance-2023-07-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a>&nbsp;to shore up the country\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi is Japan\u2019s top supplier for crude oil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2568],"tags":[587,10,1964,1777],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-86036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diplomacy","tag-diplomacy","tag-enterpriseam-ksa","tag-saudi-japan-relations","tag-saudi-pakistan-relations","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"855db7b2-5a28-4a59-aed7-9c8edb873fc8","order":"5","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Crown Prince to visit Japan next week + trip to Pakistan is on the table","related_issue":[86027],"teaser":"Saudi is Japan\u2019s top supplier for crude oil","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2024\/5\/.6c1fc7ee-3ff6-4799-8290-95cabfdef085.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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