Proposing Japan to provide ODA for the especially important North-South high-speed railway project

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Previously, on the afternoon of December 16, at the Japanese Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held talks and, together with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, witnessed the handover ceremony of cooperation documents between ministries and branches of the two countries.

During the exchange on December 17 with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, the Prime Minister proposed that Japan pay attention to and support Vietnam in surveying, building, and providing new-generation ODA capital for digital infrastructure construction projects, green transformation, and large-scale strategic infrastructure development in Vietnam, especially the plan to build the North-South high-speed railway, with higher incentives, simpler and more flexible procedures; proposed to study the possibility of cooperation in training high-quality human resources towards building and implementing this particularly important and symbolic project in the future.

Prime Minister Kishida affirmed that he highly values the Prime Minister's proposal and will direct agencies to carefully study Vietnam's proposal.

Source: https://dttg.baotainguyenmoitruong.vn/de-nghi-nhat-ban-cung-cap-oda-cho-du-an-dac-biet-quan-trong-duong-sat-toc-do-cao-bac-nam-368112.html