Vietnamese, Japanese Prime Ministers visit Vietnam National Museum of History
Vietnamese and Japanese Prime Ministers Pham Minh Chinh and Ishiba Shigeru, and their spouses visited the Vietnam National Museum of History which is preserving more than 200,000 documents and artifacts of Vietnamese history and culture, spanning from prehistoric times to the present.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (second from right) and Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru (C) and their spouses visit the Vietnam National Museum of History. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese and Japanese Prime Ministers Pham Minh Chinh and Ishiba Shigeru, and their spouses visited the Vietnam National Museum of History where they enjoyed breakfast in Hanoi on April 29 morning.
PM Chinh and his spouse invited their Japanese counterparts to enjoy specialty dishes of Hanoi and Vietnam, and drink Vietnamese coffee.
They then visited the Vietnam National Museum of History which is preserving more than 200,000 documents and artifacts of Vietnamese history and culture, spanning from prehistoric times to the present. Of the total, about 20 artifacts and documents are recognised as National Treasures.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (second from right) introduces artifacts on display at the Vietnam National Museum of History to Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru. (Photo: VNA)
Japanese PM Ishiba and his wife, who are on an official visit to Vietnam, expressed their admiration for the history of building and defending the country of the Vietnamese people over thousands of years; and recognised the cultural similarities between the two nations.
They said that this is a source of pride and an important driving force for Vietnam to continue to develop strongly, with an increasingly high position in the regional and international arenas.
The Japanese leader affirmed that his country will continue to accompany Vietnam in the new era, and support it in socio-economic development, bඣuilding an independent and self-reliant economy, and promoting industrialisation and modernisation./.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Japanese counterpart Ishiba Shigeru attended the Vietnam-Japan Forum on cooperation in strategic industries, high technology, green transition, and semiconductors in Hanoi on April 28.
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