The Vietnamese government and people would like to warmly congratulate H.E. Yuki Hatoyama for his election as Prime Minister of the Japanese Cabinet, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.

“We hope that under the leadership of Prime Minister Yuki Hatoyama, Japan will continue developing prosperously,” spokeswoman Nguyen Phuong Nga said in a press conference in Hanoi on September 16.

“We believe the strategic partnership for peace and prosperity in Asia between Vietnam and Japan will further consolidate and develop in all fields, meeting the aspirations of and accruing benefits to the two peoples, contributing to peace, stability and development in the region and the world,” she added.

On the same day, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung sent a congratulatory message to Prime Minister Yuki Hatoyama.

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong sent his congratulation to the newly-elected Japanese House of Representatives speaker Yokomichi Takahiro./.