President Tran Dai Quang (R) meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Hanoi on January 16 (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – President Tran Dai Quang acknowledged JapanesePrime Minister Shinzo Abe’s role in and devotion to nurturing the Vietnam-Japanextensive strategic partnership at a meeting in Hanoi on January 16.
Welcoming Abe’s official visit to Vietnam,President Quang noted with satisfaction the strong, comprehensive andsubstantive development of the extensive strategic partnership with highpolitical trust.
Vietnam attaches importance to all-roundcooperation with Japan and considers this a priority in its foreign policy, hesaid.
He added his country warmly welcomes the firstState visit by the Japanese Emperor and Queen and regards the trip as animportant symbol of bilateral ties. Vietnamese agencies are working closelywith the Japanese side to prepare for the visit.
The host also repeated an invitation to PM Abeto attend the APEC Summit slated for November 2017 in Vietnam.
He highly valued the outcomes of the talksbetween the Vietnamese and Japanese PMs, adding that the common perceptionsthey reached at this event will be a new driving force for the extensivestrategic partnership.
The two countries should maintain high-levelvisits and meetings, increase delegation exchanges between ministries, sectorsand localities, and enhance people-to-people links, he noted.
They should also bolster result-orientedcooperation in defence-security, such as the Japanese Government’s assistanceto Vietnam to improve the capacity of its law enforcement force at sea.
President Quang asked both sides to beef uppartnership in investment, trade, ODA provision and in the fields they havepotential in and can support each other like labour, agriculture,education-training, locality-to-locality cooperation, and tourism. They need tocontinue close coordination and mutual support at international and regionalforums such as the United Nations, the East Asia Summit, ASEAN Plus, APEC, andthe Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).
At the meeting, PM Shinzo Abe reiterated hisGovernment’s wish to intensify the extensive strategic partnership withVietnam. He agreed with the Vietnamese President’s opinions on measures toaugment bilateral relations.
He thanked the Southeast Asian nation foractively preparing for the State visit by the Japanese Emperor and Queen,stressing that his country also considers this visit as a symbol of theirfriendship and all-faceted cooperation.
The Japanese Government is ready and pledges tocooperate comprehensively with Vietnam in APEC initiatives. It will also givewholehearted support to the country to successfully organise APEC eventsthroughout 2017, he added.-VNA
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