Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son receives Govenor of Japan's Nagasaki prefecture

WVR/VNA - On August 29, in Hanoi, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son hosted a reception for Governor of Japan's Nagasaki prefecture Oishi Kengo, who is on a working visit to Vietnam from August 27-31, 2023.
FM Bui Thanh Son meets Govenor of Japan's Nagasaki prefecture
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son (right) and Governor of Japan's Nagasaki prefecture Oishi Kengo. (Photo: WVR/Tuan Anh)

Foreign Minister Son highly valued Governor Oishi's efforts in promoting cooperation and exchanges between Nagasaki prefecture and Vietnam in general and Vietnamese localities in particular in the past time.

He expressed his pleasure with the sound, rapid and comprehensive development of the Vietnam - Japan relations with high political trust, affirming that Vietnam considers locality-to-locality cooperation an important, sustantive and effective channel to strengthen economic, trade and labour cooperation, and to promote people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son receives Govenor of Japan's Nagasaki prefecture
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and Governor of Japan's Nagasaki prefecture Oishi Kengo at the meeting. (Photo: WVR/Tuan Anh)

The Foreign Minister highly appreciated and thanked the Nagasaki administration as well as Governor Oishi for always paying attention to promoting the development of friend and cooperation between Nagasaki and Vietnam, especially between the Japanese prefecture and Quang Nam province, the place that still preserves many vestiges of the exchange relations between the two countries more than 400 years ago.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son meets Govenor of Japan's Nagasaki prefecture
Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son receives Govenor of Japan's Nagasaki prefecture: Overview of the meeting. (Photo: WVR/Tuan Anh)

Foreign Minister Son suggested Governor Oishi promote the prefecture’s businesses to boost investment and business in Vietnam, especially in potential fields such as high-quality agriculture, fishery, manufacturing and supporting industry as well as strengthen human resources training and people-to-people exchanges, thereby creating an important foundation for enhancing long-term cooperation between Nagasaki and Vietnam.

For his part, Governor Oishi expressed his impression of Vietnam's socio-economic development achievements in recent years.

He briefed his host about the outcome of cooperation between Nagasaki prefecture and Quang Nam province and agreed to support the expansion of collaboration between Nagasaki and other localities of Vietnam in the fields of investment, trade, culture and tourism.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son receives Govenor of Japan's Nagasaki prefecture
Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son receives Govenor of Japan's Nagasaki prefecture: A group photo. (Photo: WVR/Tuan Anh)

The Governor spoke highly of contributions of the nearly 3,000 Vietnamese community to the prefecture's socio-economic development. He expressed his wish to expand the reception of Vietnamese trainees, nurses and workers, and pledged to continue to create favourable conditions for Vietnamese people to live, study and work in the locality.

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(Source: WVR/VNA)