Japan, Vietnam cooperate in urban development
(VOV) - Vietnam Minister of Construction Trinh Dinh Dung and Japan Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) Ohta on January 3 signed construction and urban development cooperation agreements in Hanoi at the conclusion of negotiations.
At the signing ceremony, Minister Trinh Dinh Dung affirmed the agreements would deepen the relationship between the two nation’s construction sectors and ministries. He also expressed his gratitude to Minister Ohta for Japan’s past ODA assistance.
Mr Ohta in turn expressed his desire to continue to broaden cooperation between the two nations in the time ahead, adding that in recent times the two ministries have successfully shared experiences in state management and urban development.
The ministries have additionally signed a number of memorandums of understanding to cooperate in fields such as water supply and eco-projects in Vietnam, laying a solid foundation for the bilateral ties of friendship between the two nation’s peoples and governments.