Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad inaugurated and corner-stoned the Jericho Agro Industrial Park’s Infrastructure projects funded by the Government of Japan
As part of Jericho 10,000 Program, on October 11th, 2010, a ceremony was held at the future site of Jericho Agro-Industrial Park (JAIP) with attendance of Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad, for the inauguration of the rehabilitation of part of Mahmoud Darwish Street (1.8 km) and for the ground-breaking of JAIP land reclamation. The ceremony was attended by Mr. Naofumi Hashimoto, Representative of Japan to the PNA, Mr. Kamel Hemaid, Governor of Jericho and Mr. Hassan Saleh, Mayor of Jericho.
This road rehabilitation is the first infrastructure project to facilitate the traffic in the southern Jericho, with an impact on establishing JAIP as well, while the project for the land reclamation (1st stage of 115 donum) is the first step on the JAIP site. Both projects are funded by the Government of Japan with the amount of USD 3.1 million approximately. JAIP is a core project to materialize the concept of creating the Corridor for Peace and Prosperity, which was proposed by Japan, as mid-and-long term efforts for its contribution to the co-existence and co-prosperity of Palestinians and their neighboring countries through cooperation among them.
Japan is firmly committed to support the establishment of a viable Palestinian state, and believes that for achieving such goal, a solid basis of sustainable Palestinian economy is indispensable. Japan will support this project of JAIP as part of the PNA Government Program "Homestretch to Freedom", through continuously working together with Palestinian side as well as with the other partners of Israel and Jordan, in order to start its operation by the end of 2012.
Later on the same day, Dr. Salam Fayyad together with Mr. Naofumi Hashimoto also attended the inauguration ceremony for the rehabilitation of Al-Quds street (about 0.7 km) which was implemented as part of the Project for Improvement of Internal City Roads in Jericho. Under this project funded by the Government of Japan with amount of USD 7.2 million approximately, over 70 routes in Jericho City have been improved along with providing Jericho City with roads maintenance equipments.
