Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) receives member of the House of Representatives Hiroshi Hiraguchi, Chair of the House’s Special Committee on Political Ethics and Election Law, on May 21. (Photo:VNA)At the meeting, PM Chinh expressed his delight at thestrong, comprehensive and substantive development of the extensive strategicpartnership between Vietnam and Japan, and the rapid development of bilateralexchanges between the two countries’ parliamentarians, and the cooperation andfriendship between localities, including Vietnamese ones and Hiroshima prefecture.
He expressed his admiration for the aspiration for peace of Hiroshima leadersand people, and sympathised with the prefecture over its losses in the war. Vietnam wishes to promote a peaceful world free of nuclear weapons, the leader stressed.
He took the occasion to thank the Japanese National Diet for always supportingthe development of the Vietnam-Japan relations, and conveyed National AssemblyChairman Vuong Dinh Hue’s invitation to visit Vietnam to the Speakers of theHouse of Representatives and the House of Councillors of Japan.
The PM proposed Japanese parliamentarians support the twocountries’ relationship; contribute to strengthening exchanges and cohesionbetween the two parliaments and their members in a sustainable, substantive andmutually beneficial manner; and share experience in legal supervision and perfectionof the legal system.
The Japanese parliamentarians spoke highly of Vietnam's activeparticipation in and contribution to the success of the G7 expanded Summit; and affirmed their desire to promote the Vietnam - Japan relations in general and cooperationbetween Hiroshima and Vietnamese localities in particular, and to activelyparticipate in exchange and cooperation activities between the two parliaments,including the exchange of female parliamentarians.
Member of the House of Representatives Hiroshi Hiraguchi, Chairof the House’s Special Committee on Political Ethics and Election Law, expressedhis hope that the two countries will promote the people-to-people exchange, and thereare more and more Vietnamese to come to study and work in Hiroshima./.
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