Viet Nam views Japan as strategic partner of leading importance: Top leader Nguyen Phu Trong
Japan attaches importance to the extensive strategic partnership with Viet Nam and wants to make a greater contribution to fostering this partnership, said Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide.
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| Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong in the phone talks with LDP President and Prime Minister of Japan Suga Yoshihide on March 22. (Photo: VNA) |
Suga Yoshihide, who is also President of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, made the statement during phone talks on March 22 with Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam and State President.
He expressed his desire to work closely with top Vietnamese leaders to bring the Japan-Viet Nam relations to new heights in the lead-up to the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 2023.
He also said Japan will cooperate closely with Viet Nam in COVID-19 prevention and control in the context of the pandemic evolving in a complex manner globally.
On behalf of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japanese Government, Suga Yoshihide congratulated the Communist Party of Viet Nam on the recent successful organization of its 13th national congress, and Nguyen Phu Trong himself on his re-election as the General Secretary of the Party for the 2021-2026 tenure.
He said he believes that under the leadership of the Communist Party of Viet Nam led by Trong, Viet Nam will obtain greater achievements in its ongoing Doi Moi (Renewal) process.
For his part, Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong stressed that the 13th national congress is a great political event of the Party, State and people of Viet Nam, which has set out development directions and goals for Viet Nam in the next five years with a vision to 2030 and 2045.
Viet Nam pursues its foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation and development, as well as diversification and multilaterlisation of foreign relations, while proactively integrating into the world, said Trong.
Viet Nam is a reliable partner and an active and responsible member of the international community, he noted.
Speaking highly of the positive development of the Viet Nam-Japan relationship and the close bond between the Vietnamese Communist Party and the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan over the years, Trong affirmed Viet Nam consistently considers Japan to be the most important, long-term and highly reliable strategic partner.
He proposed that the two sides strengthen exchanges and contact at all levels to further promote bilateral cooperation. He also expressed his wish that Japan will continue to support Viet Nam in successfully implementing its socio-economic development strategies and plans endorsed at the recently-concluded national Party congress while strengthening the connectivity between the two economies.
The two leaders also exchanged views on regional and international issues of mutual interest.
(Source: VOV)
