PM Chinh, who was in Japan to attend the Commemorative Summit for the 50th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation and have bilateral activities, suggested Nikai and the alliance's members work to enhance cooperation between the two parliaments and leverage the connecting role of friendship parliamentarians' organisations.
He urged them to promote cooperation between the two countries in labour, human resource training, and such new areas as digital transformation, green transition, high-tech agriculture, and education.
The government leader also emphasised the need to effectively implement the Vietnam-Japan University project and support localities’ extensive cooperation aligning with the two countries’ freshly upgraded comprehensive strategic partnership, and called for simplifying procedures towards visa exemptions for Vietnamese citizens entering Japan, thereby strengthening the two sides’ tourism cooperation and people-to-people exchanges.
For his part, Nikai said he appreciated the elevation of Vietnam-Japan relations to the comprehensive strategic partnership and affirmed the alliance’s continued support for promoting cooperation with Vietnam, especially in areas with great potential like labour, agriculture, science-technology, energy, and locality-to-locality and people-to-people exchanges. He also promised to report the PM’s visa exemption suggestion to the Japanese Government.
Japanese Minister of Justice Koizumi Ryuji pledged to make better efforts as the Chief of Office of the Japan - Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Alliance to improve policies for Vietnamese guest workers and apprentices in Japan.
Special Advisor of the Japan - Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Alliance Takebe Tsutomu highlighted his commitment to promoting the Vietnam-Japan University project while contributing to enhancing Vietnam’s capacity in human resources training.
Governor of Tokyo Koike Yuriko expressed her delight at the increasing exchange of delegations at all levels between Vietnam and Japan this year to mark the 50th founding anniversary of their diplomatic relations.
Keidanren President Kubota Masakazu affirmed that Japanese businesses are willing to contribute to developing economic ties between the two countries.
