Efforts to concretize the Vietnam-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

On the afternoon of March 14, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Mr. Takebe Tsutomu, Special Advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance, who is on a working visit to Vietnam.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Mr. Takebe Tsutomu.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh was pleased to meet again with Mr. Takebe Tsutomu, a close friend of the Vietnamese people, and recalled his very good impressions of the meeting with the Executive Board of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance during his working trip to Japan in December 2023.

Mr. Takebe Tsutomu said that he is visiting Vietnam as Honorary Chairman of the 9th Japan-Vietnam Festival in Ho Chi Minh City, and also visiting and working in some localities such as Quang Ninh province and Ho Chi Minh City.

Appreciating the 9th Japan-Vietnam Festival, the Prime Minister said this is the first large-scale Vietnam-Japan cultural exchange activity in the first year of the Vietnam-Japan Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

The Prime Minister congratulated the festival on being successfully organized with the participation and attention of many Vietnamese leaders, attracting nearly 400,000 visitors on March 9 and 10, strengthening the friendship and people-to-people exchange between the two countries.

On this occasion, the Prime Minister thanked Mr. Takebe Tsutomu for his sincere feelings, enthusiasm, wholehearted efforts, motivation, inspiration, and positive and meaningful contributions in promoting the friendly and cooperative relationship between Vietnam and Japan, especially in building the Vietnam-Japan University.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Mr. Takebe Tsutomu were pleased to note that 2023 is the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-Japan diplomatic relations and a historic milestone in the cooperative relationship with the upgrading of relations to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. The two countries have organized more than 500 large-scale and meaningful commemorative activities, deploying nearly 200 delegations of leaders of ministries, departments, branches and localities. Japan has been and is a leading important economic partner of Vietnam.

In the coming time, with the spirit of sincerity, trust and efficiency, the Prime Minister hopes that Mr. Takebe Tsutomu will continue to contribute to concretizing the Vietnam-Japan Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with specific projects and programs in various fields.

Overview of the reception.

The Prime Minister asked Mr. Takebe Tsutomu to pay attention to promoting educational cooperation, including upgrading the Japanese Language and Culture Center at Ha Long University into a center for Japanese research; upgrading the Vietnam-Japan University with increasingly improved training quality and opening a semiconductor engineering training department there; strengthening cooperation with the Vietnam National Innovation Center, such as studying the organization of the Japan-Vietnam Education Festival every October.

At the same time, promote local cooperation in the fields of investment, trade, tourism; as well as cultural connection activities, people-to-people exchange, tourism cooperation, including the successful organization of the Vietnam festival in Hokkaido and the Hokkaido festival in Ha Long in 2024. These are also important contents in implementing the content of the new bilateral relations framework.

Along with that, the Prime Minister expressed the need to promote cooperation in human resource training between the two countries; improve working conditions, labor, and quality of life for Vietnamese interns and workers working in Japan... The Prime Minister suggested that the Japanese side research, cooperate, and allocate new generation ODA capital to implement in the fastest time possible the railway project from the center of Hanoi to Hoa Lac High-Tech Park. This has many meanings, including contributing to facilitating the development of the Vietnam-Japan University; asked Mr. Takebe Tsutomu to continue promoting projects within the framework of JETP and resolving issues related to the Nghi Son Oil Refinery and Petrochemical Project.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the reception for Mr. Takebe Tsutomu.

For his part, Mr. Takebe Tsutomu affirmed that the relationship between the two countries is at its best in history; thanked the Prime Minister for his strong support in different positions for cooperation programs and projects between the two countries; affirmed that he will continue to pay attention and support promoting cooperation with Vietnam, especially in areas with much room for cooperation that the Prime Minister mentioned, actively "making a storm out of a few" to further develop the relationship between the two countries.

Mr. Takebe Tsutomu discussed and proposed a number of specific measures to promote the friendly and cooperative relationship between Vietnam and Japan; especially building an "ecosystem" to support, cooperate in training and develop human resources, including developing the Vietnam-Japan University and the Japanese Language and Culture Center here, promoting cooperation activities in school tourism, training trainees, and labor cooperation...

According to Nhan Dan

Source: https://baothanhhoa.vn/thoi-su/no-luc-cu-the-hoa-quan-he-doi-tac-chien-luoc-toan-dien-viet-nam-nhat-ban/209080.htm