Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (R) and President of the East Asian Community Institute of Japan Hatoyama Yukio (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received President of theEast Asian Community Institute of Japan Hatoyama Yukio, who is former PrimeMinister of Japan and former chairman of the Japan-Vietnam FriendshipParliamentary Alliance.
PM Phuc took the occasion to thank Hatoyama for his contribution topromoting Vietnam-Japan ties. The former Japanese PM paid great attention to developingthe relationship between the two countries in all aspects. He attended manyforums and workshops on Vietnam’s technology development, organized charityprogrammes presenting wheelchairs to people with disabilities in Vietnam.
The Vietnamese PM underlined that the Vietnam-Japan strategic partnershipis developing strongly across the fields, particularly economic, trade andinvestment cooperation.
Hatoyama expressed his joy at the robust cooperation between the twocountries, and showed interest in the building of infrastructure in the form ofpublic-private partnership (PPP) which is being discussed by the VietnameseNational Assembly.
He also suggested the two countries increase cooperation in humanresources.
Japan is the largest provider of ODA for Vietnam and the second largestforeign investor in the country, as well as the fourth largest trade partner. TheVietnamese community in Japan has numbered more than 370,000, becoming thethird biggest foreign community in Japan./.