Italian State-controlled defense
and transport conglomerate Finmeccanica is important for
relations between Italy and Japan, Italy's Premier Matteo Renzi
said on Monday after meeting with his Japanese counterpart
Shinzo Abe in Tokyo.
''Finmeccanica has chosen as partner Hitachi'', Renzi
noted, saying the Italian conglomerate had many opportunities in
the country ''especially after that proactive pacifism that Abe
has explained to us with the helicopters manufactured with
Kawasaki, as well as a number of opportunities'', Renzi noted.
Abe on Monday also spoke about ''cooperation on security''
with Italy.
In February, Finmeccanica agreed to sell its controlling
stakes in Ansaldo STS, which designs and manufactures railway
signalling systems, and Ansaldo Brera, a rail transport
engineering company, to Japanese multinational Hitachi.
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