President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations Vu Xuan Hong received a Japanese people friendship delegation led by Kimiaki Matsuzaki, Deputy President of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance, in Hanoi on July 18.

Kimiaki Matsuzaki handed over a letter from the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance to Hong to thank the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations, as well as express thanks to the Vietnamese Government, people and organisations for their assistance to Japanese earthquake and tsunami victims.

Hong said that Vietnam ’s assistance to Japan was modest in comparison with the difficulties of the Japanese people.
He affirmed that the Vietnamese Government and people always wished that the Japanese people would soon overcome their difficulties and continue building Japan into a strong nation./.