Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on August 25 received Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Masayuki Naoshima on his working visit to Vietnam.

The Prime Minister welcomed Minister Naoshima and his delegation to the ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting in Vietnam, expressing his pleasure that the cooperative ties in economy, trade and investment between the two countries are developing positively despite the global economic turndown.

Minister Naoshima said that as a strategic partner with technical experience in constructing nuclear power plants, Japan wishes to cooperate with Vietnam in this field in the future.

Prime Minister Dung spoke highly of the safety of Japanese technology in this field and said he wished the two countries would soon discuss the signing of an agreement to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Minister Naoshima said that Japan would consider stepping up the second session of the Vietnam-Japan Dialogue Forum in market economy, supporting Vietnam in farm produce quarantine, providing official development assistance for infrastructure building projects and helping Vietnam to use energy efficiently.

The same day, the Japanese minister was received by Truong Tan Sang, a Politburo member and permanent member of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee.

Sang confirmed Vietnam’s consistent policy of developing cooperative ties with Japan, adding the country will consider cooperation with Japan in nuclear energy./.