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Japanese special advisor vows to work for Vietnam-Japan ties

Tsutomu Takebe, special advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance, pledged continued efforts to foster bilateral ties, especially in constructing the Viet Nhat university.
Tsutomu Takebe, special advisor to the Japan-Vietnam FriendshipParliamentary Alliance, pledged continued efforts to foster bilateralties, especially in constructing the Viet Nhat university.

Meeting Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Hanoi on July 14, Takebealso promised to call for Japanese investment in the Hoa Lac hi-techpark, the north-south high-speed railway and the Long Thanhinternational airport.

He pledged to continuefacilitating the reception of Vietnamese agriculture trainees to Japanand cultural and people-to-people exchanges.

Takebealso spoke highly of the outcomes of talks between the Vietnamese andJapanese PMs during the host’s recent visit to Japan, saying theJapan-Vietnam relationship has come a long way and is deepening.

The guest assured his host that he will convey the PM’s proposal tosurvey the planting of wildly-popular cherry blossom trees in Vietnam toJapanese leaders upon his return.

The VietnamesePM, for his part, asked Takebe to push bilateral hi-tech farming andfisheries cooperation forward, invite Japanese inflows into Vietnam’smajor projects and receive more Vietnamese workers, nurses and traineesto Japan.-VNA
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