During his attendance at the expanded G7 Summit and working session in Hiroshima (Japan), on May 21, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.
This is the first Vietnam-Japan high-level meeting held in Hiroshima, Prime Minister Kishida's hometown, and the fifth meeting between Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Prime Minister Kishida in more than a year.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh congratulated Prime Minister Kishida and host country Japan on successfully organizing the G7 Summit and the expanded G7 Summit; highly appreciated Japan's coordinating role in reaching consensus in addressing global challenges such as food security, emission reduction, etc.
Prime Minister Kishida welcomed the active and effective participation and contribution of the Vietnamese delegation to the success of the expanded G7 Summit; affirmed that Vietnam has a leading position in implementing Japan's foreign policy in the region.
The two leaders were pleased with the strong, comprehensive and substantive development of bilateral relations in recent times; agreed on major directions and specific measures to promote the Vietnam-Japan Extensive Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity in Asia to new heights.
The two Prime Ministers agreed to enhance political trust by promoting high-level visits and contacts in 2023 - the year marking the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-Japan diplomatic relations. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh conveyed the invitation to visit Vietnam from the leaders of the Vietnamese Party and State to the Emperor and Empress of Japan.
The two sides agreed to promote defense-security cooperation in the fields of overcoming war consequences, human resource training, defense technology transfer, and cyber security; promote exchanges on the content of Japan's support for Vietnam in industrialization, modernization, and building an independent and self-reliant economy; and affirm the strengthening of economic links between the two economies through promoting investment and trade cooperation.
The two leaders appreciated the completion of the capital commitment procedures for the new generation ODA program for economic recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic with a scale of 50 billion Yen.
The two sides agreed to assign ministries and sectors in charge to discuss the possibility of Japan providing new-generation ODA with high incentives, simple and flexible procedures for large-scale strategic infrastructure development projects in Vietnam. These projects include the North-South high-speed railway, urban railway construction, climate change response, digital transformation, green transformation and healthcare. The two Prime Ministers will direct ministries and sectors of the two countries to accelerate the progress of a number of ODA cooperation projects such as Cho Ray Hospital 2 and the Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien urban railway line No. 1 construction project.
Regarding the Nghi Son Oil Refinery project, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh suggested that businesses of the two countries actively discuss in the spirit of harmonious benefits, shared risks, and removing difficulties of the project.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh suggested that the two sides coordinate to promote a new wave of Japanese investment in Vietnam in the fields of high-tech industry, energy conversion, and improving Vietnam's production capacity and competitiveness to participate more deeply and widely in the supply chain of Japanese enterprises and the global supply chain.
The Prime Minister proposed that Japan encourage strategic investors in Vietnam’s clean energy and renewable energy sectors; support Vietnam in increasing the value chain of agricultural products through technology transfer and improving capacity in the fields of distribution and processing, etc.
The Prime Minister also asked the Japanese Government to facilitate and simplify visa procedures, moving towards visa exemption for Vietnamese citizens, soon implementing study tours, and paying attention to and creating favorable conditions for the community of nearly 500,000 Vietnamese people living, studying and working in Japan.
The two sides affirmed to coordinate their stances on issues of mutual concern at multilateral and regional forums such as ASEAN, the United Nations, APEC, etc.
Prime Minister Kishida invited Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to visit Japan again and attend the ASEAN-Japan Summit in December 2023.
Thu Hang (from Hiroshima, Japan)
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