Unconventional Welcome & Call from Africa

Presentation by H.E. Mr. ESTIFANOS Afeworki Haile
Ambassador of the State of Eritrea, Dean of ADC
at UNIDO Seminar Japan-UNIDO Multi-stakeholder Cooperation Dialogue“Industrialization and Innovation in Africa” 9 April 2019 at United Nations University

Content / 内容
• Introduction• Security• Location• Resources• Business・導入・治安・立地条件
・資源・事業Location of Eritrea / エリトリアの位置

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Eritrea in numbers/ 数字で見るエリトリア• Country coastline
海岸線総延長: 3,300 km• Mainland coastline
本土海岸線: 1,350 km• Islands coastline
島嶼部海岸線: 1,950 km• Islands and islets
島・小島の総数: 354• Country area
国土面積: 124,000 km²• Territorial waters area 領海面積: 55,000 km²• Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
排他的経済水域: 120,000 km²• Watersheds linked with the coast
海岸線に続く水域: 44,000 km²
Source ECMIB GIS Unit 2007

Security/治安
VIOLENTIN 2018
VIOLENT CONFLICTS
IN CONFLICTS2018 (SUB
NATIONAL LEVEL)(SUBNATIONAL LEVEL)

2018年における暴力的紛争

Source: Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research
INTENSITY

Introduction

Horn of Africa 2018/2019• 9 July 2018Ethiopian PM Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias
signed Peace & Cooperation Treaty• 14 Nov 2018UN Security Council lifted sanctions imposed onEritrea. Subsequently Ethiopian PM Abiy and Eritrean President
Isaias launched a new peace building initiative which in theprocess included the Horn of Africa, Nile Basin and Middle
Eastern countries.
• Japan have expressed its support to this new development in theregion.

June 26, 2018 / Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
High-level Eritrean delegation, Osman Saleh, Yemane Gebreab, traveled toAddis Abeba for a two-days visit, the first time in over two decades.

July 9, 2018 / Asmara, Eritrea
Ethiopian PM Abiy made a visit to Asmara for a historic talk with Eritrean
President Isaias and they signed “Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship”

September 5, 2018 / Asmara, Eritrea
Tripartite Summit by Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, Somalia's President
Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed, and Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed

September 16, 2018 / Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz
Al Saud, Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed during the ceremony to sign a peaceagreement in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

September 17, 2018 / Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh
agreed to open a new chapter of cooperation & good neighborlinessbetween the two sisterly countries.

14 Nov 2018:
UN Security Council lifted sanctions imposed on Eritrea. Subsequently
Ethiopian PM Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias launched a new peacebuilding initiative which in the process included Horn of Africa, Nile Basinand Middle Eastern countries.

March 3, 2019:
Tripartite Summit by Kenyan President Kenyatta, Eritrean President Isaias and Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed

March 4, 2019:
Joint statement by Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan Head of States Summit– Juba, South Sudan

November 16, 2018:
Japan has expressed its support to this new development in the region.

December 14, 2018:
Cabinet of Japan approved the revision of the part of the Export Trade
Control Order to remove Eritrea from the lists of the countries under strict
trade control by METI of Japan.

Location/立地条件• Eritrea is a trade corridor
between Africa and thecommercial centers of theRed Sea, the Mediterranean
and the Indian Ocean;・エリトリアはアフリカと紅海、地中海、インド洋地域の商業中心地をつなぐ貿易回廊である

Location of Eritrea and its influence
to the hinterlands

Location/立地条件•Coastal line of 3,300km
with most heavily
trafficked maritime route(Europe-Middle/Far East)
which is ideal forfollowing activities:
海運に利用されている3,300kmに渡る（欧州-中東・極東方面への）海岸線は次のような目的に理想的である

Eritrea
Strategic Reference FrameworkLocation/立地条件– Transiting maritime traffic,
海運の中継地点として– Locating businesses, free zones
for export oriented goods,
商業、特に輸出品関税免除地域として– Accessing land, sea and air link
to/from the hinterlands of Africa,
Europe and the Middle East,
アフリカの後背地、欧州、中東を結ぶ陸/海/空運拠点として– The Capital city, Asmara, is located
11 flight hours from Narita Airport
首都アスマラへは日本から約11時間

Regional Routes in the Horn of Africa

Resources/資源• Population (6.5 million):
open, honest and hardworking
人口600万人、開放的、誠実、勤勉• Fertile agricultural land
肥沃な農業用池• Adequate potential of water resources
十分な水資源• Good basis of human resource
良質な人的資源• Massive displacement of population indiasporas
ディアスポラ人口の世界各地への拡散

Resources/資源• Patriotism is high; self-effort culture;
women’s unique role is in all economicsectors
愛国心/自助努力の文化/多分野での女性
参画• New economic policy and ideal
regulatory and legal environment
新経済政策と理想的な規制/法的環境• Crop, fruit cultivation, animal husbandry
穀物、果実栽培、畜産;• Long history of agro industries andmanufacturing plants
農工業と歴史ある製造プラント• Fishing industry with more than 79,000
tons/year potential harvest
漁業:年間7.9万トンの水揚高

Eritrea: Land CoverResources/資源• Commercially valuable fish areeither reef dwelling, such asgroupers, snappers and emperors:
demersal, such as lizardfish andbreams; or pelagic, such as jacks,
trevallies, mackerels, tunas,
sardines, anchovy and ideal place
for pearl farming;
珊瑚礁をすみかとする魚；ハタ、フエダイ、スズキなど
淡水魚；エソ、ブリームなど
浅瀬に住む魚；カワカマス、ロウニンアジ、サバ、マグロ、ニシン、カタクチイワシなど多くの商用魚が生息している。
また、真珠の養殖にも絶好の海である。

Eritrea’s Territorial Waters
Fishing Grounds

Resources/資源• Deposits of Minerals: rare metals, precious metals, base metals
and construction materials• Deposits of oil and natural gas: commercially recoverable along
the Red Sea coast; and• Potential for developing thermal, wind and other alternate
sources of energy
・豊富な鉱物資源：レアメタル、貴金属、卑金属、建設資材
・豊富な石油・天然ガス資源：紅海沿いに可採埋蔵量あり・地熱、風力などの他の代替エネルギー資源の開発も期待できるResources/

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JOGMEC報告書2010/10/01『エリトリア ： 東アフリカの穴場か？
−秘められた石油 ・ 天然ガス探鉱 ・ 開発ポテンシャル−』JOGMEC報告書2010/10/01『エリトリア ： 東アフリカの穴場か？
−秘められた石油 ・ 天然ガス探鉱 ・ 開発ポテンシャル−』

WIND MAP OF ERITREA
More than 14000 MW steadypower can be generated

Business/事業• Eritrea is ready to look into ways and means ofestablishing mutually agreed potential strategic
programs with development partners from Japan inmutually agreed projects in view of the mutual needs
and requirements for the transfer of know-how,
technology and FDI,
エリトリアはノウハウ、技術、FDIの移転のための相互のニーズと要望を考慮して、相互に合意したプロジェクトで、日本の開発パートナーと相互に合意した潜在的、戦略的なプログラムを確立する方法と手段を検討する準備ができている。

Business/事業• Several major companies from Japan like YAMAHA,
TOYOTA and KOMATSU are already working with theirpartners in Eritrea,• Private investment, both local and foreign, is allowed toparticipate in all sectors of the economy with norestrictions and discrimination,••

トヨタ、ヤマハ、コマツなどの主要な日本企業がエリトリアの企業と取引を行っている。
あらゆる分野において、国外、国内両方の民間投資は制限や差別なく許可されている。

Business/事業• Foreign capital may establish an enterprise on its own
and/or in partnership with local capital,• Investment Proclamation No. 59/1994 and subsequent laws
and regulations issued in all sectors explicitly addresses all
investment issues, tax regime, foreign exchange regulation,
labor laws, business licensing and guarantees, and• 外国資本が独自にあるいは現地資本と共同で企業を設立することが可能。
• あらゆる部門について発布された投資に関する布告第59/1994号と関連法は、すべての投資案件、税制、外国為替法、労働法、事業許認可について明確に取扱っている。

Business/事業• Agriculture, Fisheries and Marine Resources, Manufacturing,
Mineral Resources, Oil, Natural Gas, Tourism, infrastructure,
Transportation, Free Zones and other services can betargeted by Japanese investors in Eritrea.
•農業、漁業、海洋資源、製造業、鉱物資源、石油、天然ガス、観光、インフラ、交通、免税地域、その他のサービスがエリトリアの日本人投資家向けに展開されている

Business/事業• “Investment Policy andOpportunities of the Stateof Eritrea" published by theEritrea Investment Center isavailable, please access formore information :エリトリア投資センター発行資料「エリトリア国の投資に関する政策と投資の機会」
エリトリア大使館公式HP
TOP＞電子資料庫＞産業＞

Download the copy from Embassy website:
http://www.eritreaembassy-japan.org/data/Investment_Policy_and_Opportunities_of_the_state_of_Eritrea.pdf

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