Vietnamese PM receives Japanese Minister

Hanoi (VNA)- Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on August 25 received Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Masayuki Naoshima on his working visit to Vietnam.


The Prime Minister welcomed Minister Naoshima and his delegation to the ASEAN
Economic Ministers’ Meeting in Vietnam, expressing his pleasure that the
cooperative ties in economy, trade and investment between the two countries are
developing positively despite the global economic turndown.

Minister Naoshima said that as a strategic partner with technical experience in
constructing nuclear power plants, Japan wishes to cooperate with Vietnam in this
field in the future.

Prime Minister Dung spoke highly of the safety of Japanese technology in this
field and said he wished the two countries would soon discuss the signing of an
agreement to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Minister Naoshima said that Japan would consider stepping up the second session of
the Vietnam-Japan Dialogue Forum in market economy, supporting Vietnam in farm
produce quarantine, providing official development assistance for infrastructure
building projects and helping Vietnam to use energy efficiently.

The same day, the Japanese minister was received by Truong Tan Sang, a Politburo
member and permanent member of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee.


Sang confirmed Vietnam’s consistent policy of developing cooperative ties with
Japan, adding the country will consider cooperation with Japan in nuclear
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