President Truong Tan Sang held a reception on April 27 for visiting
Chairman of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance (JVFPA)
Nikai Toshihiro and representatives of a number of leading Japanese
groups.
The president said Japan is always Vietnam’s
leading important economic partner, adding that since the establishment
of their strategic partnership, Vietnam and Japan have cooperated
extensively and intensively in various areas such as politics, foreign
affairs, trade, investment and culture.
He affirmed
Vietnam wishes to further the cooperation with Japan, especially
in building market economic institutions and developing human resources
and synchronous infrastructure.
President Sang thanked
Japan for providing official development assistance (ODA) for
Vietnam in the context of the global economic turmoil, and suggested
the two countries create more favourable conditions for Japanese
investors in his country.
He expressed his hopes that
the JVFPA will continue to make active contributions to boosting the
strategic partnership while supporting and encouraging the Japanese
Government to step up cooperation with Vietnam.
For his part, the JVFPA Chairman spoke highly of Vietnam’s all-round
development over the past time, particularly in economics and trade.
He said he believed that the two countries’ relations will continue to
be consolidated and developed in all fields and pledged to do his
utmost to further strengthen bilateral ties.-VNA