Macedonia and Japan have excellent political relations that should result in closer economic cooperation. In the course of the past two decades, since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the two countries have continuously promoted cooperation, said Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe at their meeting in Tokyo Tuesday, Utrinski vesnik reports.

The two prime ministers also said they were very much pleased with the practice of holding meetings at the highest political level and said they would personally make effort to promote further economic relations, trade and cooperation in the area of investments.