Vietnam highlighted as economic, trade, and labour partner of Japan

VOV.VN - Hosoda Hiroyuki, speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan, has highlighted the role of Vietnam as an important Japanese economic, trading, and labour partner.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc held a meeting on September 26 with Hiroyuki as part of his visit to Japan to attend the National Funeral Ceremony in memory of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

During the course of the meeting, on behalf of the Vietnamese Party and State leaders, as well as Vietnamese people, President Phuc expressed his deep condolences to the Japanese House of Representatives for the sudden passing of the late PM Abe. He also highly appreciated the late PM’s special affection, attention, and contributions to mutual ties, as well as promoting co-operation between the two legislatures over recent years.

Hiroyuki recalled the feelings and strong desire to strengthen co-operative relations during the lifetime of the late Japanese PM, while emphasising that he placed great importance on the role of Vietnam in the region and devoted a lot of effort to ramping up comprehensive co-operation.

President Phuc therefore applauded positive developments in the fields of the extensive strategic partnership, exchanges, and closer co-operation between the two legislative bodies, parliamentarians, and the two countries’ friendship parliamentary groups.

He affirmed that the country values and wishes to work alongside Japan in a bid to further strengthen the extensive strategic partnership in the lead up to the two countries' 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties ahead in 2023.

The Vietnamese State leader therefore suggested the two sides continue to deepen co-operation in multiple fields in order to follow the will of the late PM Abe, including intensifying the exchange of high-level delegations at all levels and closer co-operation between both nations’ legislative bodies.

He also asked the House of Representatives to facilitate the Japanese Government’s support for Vietnam in building an independent and self-reliant economy with extensive international integration. This can be achieved through providing official development assistance (ODA) capital, as well as bolstering co-operation in trade, investment, cultural, and people-to-people exchanges.

Hiroyuki went on to outline Vietnam's role for Japan as an economic, trade, and labour partner, while affirming its support for enhancing relations, especially in infrastructure construction, ODA, and technology transfer. This will contribute to bringing Vietnamese agricultural products to the Japanese market and increasing the recruitment of Vietnamese workers.

The Japanese speaker also expressed his wish to welcome National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue to visit Japan in the near future.  

The two sides agreed to continue to boost ties in international affairs, support the role and stance of ASEAN, and contribute to peace, stability, co-operation, and development in the region and the world as a whole.

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