Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung held talks on July 4 in Tokyo with hisJapanese counterpart Shinzo Abe who pledged that Japan will supportVietnam in infrastructure building towards high quality infrastructuredevelopment.
PM Nguyen Tan Dung stated that Vietnamtreasures partnership with Japan and always favours Japan’s roleand positive contributions to peace, stability, cooperation and progressin the region and the world.
Both sides agreed tomaintain visits, meetings and dialogues at all levels, especially highlevel, to further deepen political trust. In this spirit, PM Abewelcomed a visit to Japan by Party General Secretary Nguyen PhuTrong. He himself accepted the invitation to visit Vietnam again atan early date.
Regarding economic cooperation, the two PMsvowed to coordinate closely in effectively realising important jointprojects, while completing the building of a middle and long-term visionon agricultural affiliation.
PM Abe committed tomaintain high ODA provision for Vietnam’s sustainable growth,including assistance for the construction of the Cho Ray 2 Hospital,also known as the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Hospital.
PM Nguyen Tan Dung highly appreciates PM Abe’s support of Vietnam ’sproposal on Japan ’s phase-one ODA commitment worth 300 billion JPY(roughly 3 billion USD) for Vietnam ’s projects in the fiscal year of2015.
The Japanese PM said he will consider Vietnam’srequest on maintaining and increasing support scale for programmes onclimate change response and economic governance and competitivenessenhancement. Japan will also continue its assistance for Vietnamin implementing the strategy on industrialisation within theVietnam-Japan cooperation framework until 2020 with a vision to 2030, hesaid.
Meanwhile, PM Nguyen Tan Dung asked the JapaneseGovernment continue helping Vietnam in human resources development,while encouraging Japanese firms to engage in the Vietnam-JapanUniversity project and expanding the reception of Vietnamese nurses.
He added that Vietnam always welcomes and backs Japanese enterprisesto invest in the “smart urban area” project in the north of Hanoi.
Both sides agreed to create all favourable conditions for businesses ofboth countries to increase trade relations, boosting foreign directinvestment and tourism collaboration.
They concurred tostrengthen collaboration in investment, agriculture and human resourcesdevelopment, while evaluating the possibility to cooperate within the110 billion USD credit package announced by PM Abe in May this year forhigh-quality infrastructure growth in Asia.
The two PMsalso discussed a number of regional and global issues of mutual concern,pledging to promote coordination at regional and international forums.
The Vietnamese Government leader said Vietnam supports Japan’s“positive pacifism” for the sake of peace, security, stability,cooperation and progress in the region and the world in line with theUnited Nations’ Charter as well as international law while respectingother State’s independence and sovereignty and pursuing equal, mutuallybeneficial cooperation.
The two PM shared the deep concernof the international community as well as leaders at the Mekong-JapanSummit over recent developments in the East Sea, especially thelarge-scale construction of islands.
They agreed on theimportance of maintaining peace, security, safety and freedom ofmaritime and aviation and called on all involved parties to avoidactions complicating and expanding disputes in the East Sea . Theyalso urged the strict observance of international law, especially the1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as well as the Declaration onthe Conducts of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), while speeding up thebuilding of a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).
PMAbe emphasised his concern about the unilateral changing of status quoon large scale as well as the construction of military bases in theregion, adding that Japan commits to engaging in maintainingmaritime and aviation order.
At the same time, the twoleaders also announced the basic conclusion of bilateral negotiations onthe Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, while pledging to workwith other member countries to finish talks for the deal.
PM Nguyen Tan Dung lauded Japan’s contributions to the success ofthe 7th Mekong-Japan Summit with the approval of the “Tokyo Strategy215.”
Following their talks, the two PMs witnessed thesigning of a number of agreements, including a 66 billion JPY deal onproviding loans for five projects in the 2014 fiscal year, and amemorandum of understanding on cooperation between Vietnam’s Ministry ofIndustry and Trade and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industryon the formation of a Joint Committee on collaboration in industry,trade and energy.
On the evening of July 4, PM Nguyen Tan Dung and the Vietnamese delegation left Tokyo, concluding their Japan visit.-VNA
PM Nguyen Tan Dung stated that Vietnamtreasures partnership with Japan and always favours Japan’s roleand positive contributions to peace, stability, cooperation and progressin the region and the world.
Both sides agreed tomaintain visits, meetings and dialogues at all levels, especially highlevel, to further deepen political trust. In this spirit, PM Abewelcomed a visit to Japan by Party General Secretary Nguyen PhuTrong. He himself accepted the invitation to visit Vietnam again atan early date.
Regarding economic cooperation, the two PMsvowed to coordinate closely in effectively realising important jointprojects, while completing the building of a middle and long-term visionon agricultural affiliation.
PM Abe committed tomaintain high ODA provision for Vietnam’s sustainable growth,including assistance for the construction of the Cho Ray 2 Hospital,also known as the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Hospital.
PM Nguyen Tan Dung highly appreciates PM Abe’s support of Vietnam ’sproposal on Japan ’s phase-one ODA commitment worth 300 billion JPY(roughly 3 billion USD) for Vietnam ’s projects in the fiscal year of2015.
The Japanese PM said he will consider Vietnam’srequest on maintaining and increasing support scale for programmes onclimate change response and economic governance and competitivenessenhancement. Japan will also continue its assistance for Vietnamin implementing the strategy on industrialisation within theVietnam-Japan cooperation framework until 2020 with a vision to 2030, hesaid.
Meanwhile, PM Nguyen Tan Dung asked the JapaneseGovernment continue helping Vietnam in human resources development,while encouraging Japanese firms to engage in the Vietnam-JapanUniversity project and expanding the reception of Vietnamese nurses.
He added that Vietnam always welcomes and backs Japanese enterprisesto invest in the “smart urban area” project in the north of Hanoi.
Both sides agreed to create all favourable conditions for businesses ofboth countries to increase trade relations, boosting foreign directinvestment and tourism collaboration.
They concurred tostrengthen collaboration in investment, agriculture and human resourcesdevelopment, while evaluating the possibility to cooperate within the110 billion USD credit package announced by PM Abe in May this year forhigh-quality infrastructure growth in Asia.
The two PMsalso discussed a number of regional and global issues of mutual concern,pledging to promote coordination at regional and international forums.
The Vietnamese Government leader said Vietnam supports Japan’s“positive pacifism” for the sake of peace, security, stability,cooperation and progress in the region and the world in line with theUnited Nations’ Charter as well as international law while respectingother State’s independence and sovereignty and pursuing equal, mutuallybeneficial cooperation.
The two PM shared the deep concernof the international community as well as leaders at the Mekong-JapanSummit over recent developments in the East Sea, especially thelarge-scale construction of islands.
They agreed on theimportance of maintaining peace, security, safety and freedom ofmaritime and aviation and called on all involved parties to avoidactions complicating and expanding disputes in the East Sea . Theyalso urged the strict observance of international law, especially the1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as well as the Declaration onthe Conducts of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), while speeding up thebuilding of a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).
PMAbe emphasised his concern about the unilateral changing of status quoon large scale as well as the construction of military bases in theregion, adding that Japan commits to engaging in maintainingmaritime and aviation order.
At the same time, the twoleaders also announced the basic conclusion of bilateral negotiations onthe Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, while pledging to workwith other member countries to finish talks for the deal.
PM Nguyen Tan Dung lauded Japan’s contributions to the success ofthe 7th Mekong-Japan Summit with the approval of the “Tokyo Strategy215.”
Following their talks, the two PMs witnessed thesigning of a number of agreements, including a 66 billion JPY deal onproviding loans for five projects in the 2014 fiscal year, and amemorandum of understanding on cooperation between Vietnam’s Ministry ofIndustry and Trade and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industryon the formation of a Joint Committee on collaboration in industry,trade and energy.
On the evening of July 4, PM Nguyen Tan Dung and the Vietnamese delegation left Tokyo, concluding their Japan visit.-VNA
