On the morning of December 18, in Tokyo, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a working breakfast with the Japanese People's Foreign Affairs Promotion Council (FEC) chaired by Mr. Matsuzawa Ken.
The Prime Minister said Japan continues to be Vietnam's leading economic partner, the largest ODA provider, the second largest labor cooperation partner, the third largest investor and tourism partner, and the fourth largest trade partner of Vietnam.
The Council will further promote investment, cooperation and economic linkage activities with Vietnam.
Mr. Matsuzawa Ken said that the Council and the people of Japan were very pleased to welcome Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; highly appreciated Vietnam's strong role in ASEAN and the region, attracting the world's attention in the fields of politics, economics, and diplomacy, and at the same time, international friends also know about Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's dynamic and positive activities.
Mr. Matsuzawa Ken was pleased to see that the Vietnam-Japan relationship has developed positively and well in recent times, with the two countries working together, sharing joys and sorrows, learning from each other, and making positive contributions to peace, stability, and development in the region and the world. He believes that the Prime Minister's working trip will be extremely successful, continuing to promote and contribute to the Vietnam-Japan relationship in the coming time.
He agreed with the Prime Minister's view that the most important thing is to take action, bringing practical and effective benefits. The delegates attending the meeting were all businesses that have invested in Vietnam or are looking to invest in Vietnam and in the coming time, based on the Prime Minister's direction, the Council will further promote investment activities, cooperation and economic linkages with Vietnam.
Mr. Matsuzawa Ken said the Council and the Japanese people highly appreciate Vietnam's strong role in ASEAN and the region.
At the meeting, members of the Council, including many large companies, introduced the potential, strengths and activities in Vietnam, highly appreciated the business investment environment, presented future orientations with the determination to continue accompanying Vietnam. For example, Mizuho Bank considers Vietnam the most important strategic market in Southeast Asia and will continue to promote cooperation and investment in Vietnam, contributing to the development of Vietnam.
The world's No. 1 zipper manufacturer YKK said its production facility in Vietnam is the group's most important facility and therefore, since April this year, the group has moved its production department to Vietnam.
Constantly preserving and promoting friendship is a priceless asset between the two peoples.
Speaking at the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh was delighted to meet again with Chairman Matsuzawa Ken; welcomed the FEC for always paying deep attention to Vietnam, making many practical and effective contributions to the development of bilateral relations, bringing benefits to the people of the two countries, creating an environment of peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world.
Reviewing the milestones and great achievements in 50 years of Vietnam - Japan relations with many remarkable advances, the Prime Minister said there are "6 things better": Deeper affection; more clearly felt sincerity; higher trust; more effective and substantial; cooperation increasingly expanding in scope and scale; understanding and loving each other more.
With over 5,200 projects and more than 71.5 billion USD in registered capital, Japanese investors are present in most localities of Vietnam, participating in many strategic projects in a number of key areas.
In the coming time, the Prime Minister said that both sides need to continue educating the young generations of the two countries to constantly preserve and promote the friendship, which is a priceless asset between the two peoples; promote what has been done, learn from what has not been done; concretize the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership into specific programs, plans and projects, thereby bringing about measurable results, consolidating sincerity, affection, trust, and bringing the relationship between the two countries to become increasingly deeper, more substantial and more effective.
The Prime Minister requested the Council, people and Japanese enterprises to continue supporting and accompanying Vietnam in the cause of industrialization and modernization of the country; implementing three strategic breakthroughs (building and perfecting institutions; building modern and synchronous infrastructure; training and developing high-quality human resources), specifically calling for more investment capital with better incentives, cooperating in research and transferring high technology, training human resources, cooperating in labor, improving management capacity in a modern direction, and contributing ideas to building institutions, policies and regulations.
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