Wednesday, 08/11/2023 16:15 (GMT+7)
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu hosted a reception for a delegation of the Japan-Vietnam parliamentary friendship alliance of Kobe city, Japan’s Hyogo prefecture, in Hanoi on November 7.
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| At the reception (Photo: baoquocte.vn) |
At the reception, Mr. Vu emphasized that Japan is Vietnam's top economic cooperation partner across various fields such as official development assistance (ODA), investment, trade, labour, tourism, locality-to-locality cooperation, and people-to-people exchange.
For his part, Chairman of the alliance Murano Seiichi said he wants to enhance effective and substantive collaboration between Kobe and Vietnamese localities, including Ha Nam and Quang Ninh provinces, Hai Phong city, particularly in economics, investment, trade, and cultural and people-to-people exchange.
Kobe is willing to create favourable conditions to receive outstanding Vietnamese individuals to study and work in the city and hopes to strengthen tourism cooperation with Vietnam by establishing a direct flight route connecting the two.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Vu suggested that the alliance encourages Kobe's businesses to invest in areas of Vietnam’s interest like manufacturing, high-tech agriculture, processing, and farm produce export-import.
On this occasion, Mr. Murano expressed his thanks and asked Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to continue to pay attention and support the alliance’s activities as well as further promote friendship and cooperation between Kobe and Vietnamese localities in the coming time.
Established in 2019, the alliance is the first of its kind in the prefecture, with the number of its members amounting to 36 out of 65 parliamentarians of Kobe city./.
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