FM encourages Japanese investment in Vietnam

VOV.VN - The Japan - Vietnam Friendship Society of Sakai City should promote trade and investment cooperation between its businesses and their Vietnamese counterparts, as well as between Japanese and Vietnamese localities.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son made the request while receiving in Hanoi on August 23 Kato Hiroki, representative of the leadership of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Society of Sakai city and the family of the Society’s late President Kato Hitoshi.

Son highly appreciated practical contributions by the Society and the late President Hitoshi personally to promoting people-to-people exchanges and strengthening economic - cultural cooperation between Sakai and Vietnamese localities such as Da Nang and Binh Dinh.

He expressed his delight at the strong and comprehensive development of the Vietnam - Japan relations with high political trust and substantial progress in bilateral cooperation, as well as in people-to-people exchanges.

The Minister suggested that the Society encourage Sakai’s businesses to actively cooperate and invest in Vietnam, support human resource training, expand the reception of Vietnamese interns and continue supporting the Vietnamese community studying and living in the region.

For his part, Kato Hiroki affirmed that the Sakai city would make every effort to promote cooperation and friendly exchanges in various fields between Japan and Vietnam in general and between Sakai city and Kansai region of Japan and Vietnamese businesses and localities in particular.

The Japan - Vietnam Friendship Society will help establish human resource development centres for Japanese language and skill training, increase cultural exchanges and local cooperation between the two countries, and support the Vietnamese community in Japan, said the Japanese official.

The Society will actively participate in commemorative activities and send exchange delegations on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, he added.

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