Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung made the statement at a reception for a visiting group of senior experts on finance and banking from Japan in Hanoi on December 1.

PM Dung said that in response to unpredictable fluctuations in the global economy, the Vietnamese Government is carrying out numerous measures to stabilise the macro-economy to ensure growth as well as restructuring State-owned enterprises. Vietnam wants to boost comprehensive cooperation with Japan, sharing experiences in completing policies to build an active and effective market-oriented economy, he added.

PM Dung expressed his pleasure at the fine development of relations between the two countries in many fields and expressed the hope that the two sides would boost cooperation not only in economics, trade and investment, but also in education and scientific technology based on the Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Cooperation Agreement, which has officially taken effect.

The Japanese experts, headed by Prof. Muto Toshiro, were in Vietnam to attend the seminar “Toward increasing development in Vietnam” held in Hanoi on December 1 by the State Bank of Vietnam, the Japanese Embassy in Vietnam and the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

Prof. Muto Toshiro said that given the current global economic climate, developed and developing countries need to review their experiences over the past year to work out policies and solutions for their local economies as well as regional and world economy to overcome the crisis for the sake of sustainable development and long-lasting prosperity.