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APEC 2017: Vietnam, Japan agree to forge stronger ties

President Tran Dai Quang and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe agreed to work closely to further develop the Vietnam-Japan intensive strategic partnership in the future at a meeting in Da Nang on November 10.
APEC 2017: Vietnam, Japan agree to forge stronger ties ảnh 1 President Tran Dai Quang (right) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a meeting on the sidelines of the ongoing APEC Economics Leaders' Week. (Photo: VNA)

Da Nang (VNA) – President Tran Dai Quang and Japanese Prime Minister ShinzoAbe agreed to work closely together to further develop the Vietnam-Japanintensive strategic partnership in the future at their meeting in the centralcity of Da Nang on November 10 as part of the ongoing APEC Economic Leaders’Week.

PM Abe laudedVietnam’s initiatives and efforts as well as active role in organising the APECEconomic Leaders’ Week.

Showingdeep sympathy over losses caused by Typhoon Damrey, Abe informed Quang on Japan’ssupplies of 105 water filters to locals in flood-hit localities. He alsopledged to continue providing ODA to Vietnam, while assisting the country inhigh quality human resource development.

He alsoasked the Vietnamese side to back Japanese firms in joining transportation infrastructureand energy development projects.

PresidentQuang thanked Japan for aiding storm-affected locals in the central region andexpressed his delight at the growing intensive strategic partnership betweenthe two countries with high political trust and regular high-level exchanges.

He highlyvalued Japan’s ODA, saying that Vietnam hopes to increase trade with Japan, andJapan soon allows the import of Vietnamese fresh fruits and provides technical assistancefor Vietnam to enhance capacity in negotiating and implementing new-generationfree trade agreements. He vowed to back Japanese investors.

The Stateleader suggested that the two sides expand partnership to health care, educationand labour areas as well as law enforcement at sea, war aftermath overcoming,including the detoxification in Bien Hoa airport.

The twoleaders agreed to maintain high-level meetings and existing dialogue mechanisms,while sharing viewpoints on regional and global issues of shared concern,including the nuclear matter in the Korean Peninsula and the East Sea, andcooperating in ASEAN, APEC and the United Nations.

The twosides support the settlement of disputes through peaceful measures in line withinternational law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of theSea 1982, and respect for diplomatic and level process.

Followingthe meeting, the two leaders witnessed the signing of some agreements betweenministries, sectors and businesses of both sides with a total value of about 5billion USD.-VNA
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