Japanese Olympic Committee Sign Panama Olympic Committee Partnership

The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) have signed a partnership agreement with the Panama Olympic Committee (POC), no rx bringing the JOC’s current total of partners to 30.

The announcement took place at a press conference in Tokyo attended by Camilo Jose Amado Varela, pills Chairman of the POC; Meliton Sanchez Rivas, healing IOC Member from Panama; Tsunekazu Takeda, IOC member and President of the JOC; and Hirobumi Kawano, Vice President of the JOC.

Tsunekazu Takeda commented: “It is a great honour for me to have signed this bilateral partnership with the Panama Olympic Committee. I am sure that the sporting communities of both Panama and Japan will have many ideas and opinions to exchange and much to learn from one another in the coming years. I am delighted to host Camilo Jose Amado Varela and Meliton Sanchez Rivas in Tokyo and I would like to thank both of them for making the long journey to Japan and for their commitment to the partnership agreement.”

The partnership between the two National Olympic Committees (NOCs) consists of exchanging information on the Olympic Movement, developing athletes and coaches’ exchanges, fostering relations between National Federations, strengthening anti-doping efforts and cooperating in the marketing and sponsorship sectors.

Since the year 2000, the JOC has concluded bilateral partnership agreements with 29 NOCs from all over the world to develop sporting ties and deepen friendships. In addition to the POC, the JOC currently has partnership agreements with the NOCs of Cuba, Austria, the United States, Germany, China, Lithuania, Korea, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Canada, Thailand, Sweden, Ireland, Bulgaria, Australia, Chinese Taipei, Brazil, Singapore, Egypt, New Zealand, Ukraine, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Jamaica, Croatia, Barbados, Bhutan and Hungary (listed in chronological order).