General Secretary, President To Lam welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae
WVR - On May 2, at the Presidential Palace, General Secretary, President To Lam welcomed the President of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, who is on an official visit to Vietnam.
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| General Secretary, President To Lam welcomed the President of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae. (Photo: Thanh Long) |
On behalf of the Party, State, and people of Vietnam, General Secretary, President To Lam welcomed Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae and the high-level delegation of the Japanese Government during this significant visit, as both countries have new leaderships striving to achieve their respective socio-economic development goals.
Expressing delight at the positive development of Vietnam-Japan relations over two years after being elevated to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, General Secretary, President To Lam highly valued the substantive and comprehensive cooperation between the two sides, characterized by high political trust, effective implementation, and the establishment of numerous exchange and dialogue mechanisms in economics, diplomacy, security, and defense. The cooperation is expanding into new fields such as digital transformation, green transition, science and technology, and innovation.
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| Overview of the meeting. (Photo: Thanh Long) |
Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae expressed her delight at revisiting Vietnam for the first time as Prime Minister and was pleased to meet General Secretary, President To Lam following their phone conversation in mid-April.
Prime Minister Takaichi congratulated General Secretary, President To Lam on being re-elected as General Secretary and President, as well as Vietnam's recent new leadership; he thanked the Party, State, people of Vietnam, and personally General Secretary, President To Lam for the warm sentiments and respectful, cordial reception extended to the delegation.
Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae affirmed support for Vietnam's reform efforts and economic autonomy, expressing confidence that Vietnam will achieve even greater accomplishments in the future.
Expressing satisfaction with the robust development of bilateral Vietnam-Japan relations, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae affirmed Japan's desire to closely cooperate with Vietnam to implement the Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision; Japan supports and will continue to accompany and assist Vietnam in achieving its development goals in the new era, contributing to the prosperity of the region; and closely coordinate to elevate the Vietnam-Japan Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to new heights.
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| General Secretary, President To Lam outlined six major directions to strengthen strategic cooperation between the two countries. (Photo: Thanh Long) |
General Secretary, President To Lam affirmed Vietnam's steadfast foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, cooperation, and development, multilateralization, diversification, and the four-no defense policy, promoting deeper and more effective relations with partners, always considering Japan as one of the most important, reliable, and long-term strategic partners.
General Secretary, President To Lam outlined six major directions to strengthen strategic cooperation between the two countries, including enhancing political trust, cooperation between Party, Government channels, and at the local level; consolidating substantive and effective defense-security cooperation; strengthening economic linkages, ensuring economic, food, and energy security, while expanding into new fields such as digital transformation, energy transition, green transition, semiconductors, AI, etc., leveraging Japan's strengths in science and technology; effectively implementing cooperation in science and technology through high-quality human resource training, promoting joint research; promoting human resource cooperation through labour, education, local, cultural-social, tourism, and people-to-people exchanges.
The Japanese Prime Minister emphasized the importance of Vietnam-Japan economic cooperation to ensure economic security, contributing to enhancing the strategic autonomy and resilience of both countries, by promoting cooperation in strategic areas such as semiconductor industry development, high technology, digital transformation, and green transition, public-private cooperation in strengthening energy and mineral supply chains, AI and space cooperation, and implementing projects under the Asia Energy and Resource Resilience Partnership (POWERR ASIA) initiative that Japan proposed at the recent expanded AZEC Summit.
The Japanese Prime Minister committed to implementing the first cooperation project under the POWERR ASIA initiative by supporting crude oil procurement for the Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Complex to ensure the plant operates at 100% capacity. Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae expressed a desire to cooperate with Vietnam to promote energy, gas power projects, and in the field of strategic minerals.
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| General Secretary, President To Lam and Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae agreed to closely coordinate at regional and international forums such as the United Nations, ASEAN, the Mekong sub-region…(Photo: Thanh Long) |
The Japanese Prime Minister affirmed continued support and facilitation for the community of nearly 700,000 Vietnamese living, studying, and working in Japan based on policies to build an orderly and harmonious Japanese society coexisting with foreigners. The two sides agreed to enhance consular exchanges, including sharing and coordinating consular notifications between the two countries, and closely cooperate in crime prevention.
During the meeting, General Secretary, President To Lam and Prime Minister Takaichi exchanged and agreed to closely coordinate at regional and international forums such as the United Nations, ASEAN, the Mekong sub-region… in the context of rapidly and complexly changing international situations, which are negatively impacting global economic and energy security, contributing practically to maintaining peace, stability, cooperation, and development in the region and the world.
On this occasion, General Secretary, President To Lam extended an invitation to the Emperor and Empress of Japan to visit Vietnam soon. Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae extended an invitation to General Secretary, President To Lam and his spouse to visit Japan at the earliest opportunity.
