Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Van Nen on January 11 received former Prime Minister of Japan Suga Yoshihide who is on a working visit to the southern largest city.
Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen (second from right) and former Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide (second from left) at the meeting on January 11 (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Politburo member,Secretary of the Party Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Van Nen on January11 received former Prime Minister of Japan Suga Yoshihide who is on a working visitto the southern largest city.
Highlighting great potential for cooperationbetween HCM City and Japan, Nen talked about the city’s challenges in thedevelopment process, saying that its infrastructure, especially transport infrastructure, has yet to meet socio-economic development requirements.
The city’s Metro Line No. 1 project is asymbol of Vietnam-Japan relations, Nen said, adding that it is expected tobecome a bright spot and create trust among people so as to effectively carryout other metro projects, thus improving traffic matters in HCM City.
He took this occasion to thank theJapanese government and people for their timely assistance to Vietnam and HCMCity as well during the hardest times of the COVID-19 pandemic, thus helpingthe city control the pandemic and reaped important socio-economic achievementsin 2022.
Nen also expressed his hope that Suga,in his capacity as advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship ParliamentaryAlliance and with his prestige and dedication, would continue contributing to thedevelopment of relations between Vietnam and Japan as well as between HCM Cityand Japanese localities and partners.
Suga expressed his impression for HCMCity’s strong development and thanked the city’s leaders for creatingfavourable conditions for Japanese enterprises which are investing and doing businessthere.
He spoke highly of cooperative ties betweenHCM City and Japanese localities and proposed the city’s leaders to accelerate thedeployment of signed projects and successful organisation of Japan-VietnamFestival in HCM City next month, thereby promoting people-to-people exchangesbetween the two countries and contributing to the development of the bilateralrelations./.
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The outcomes of Party General Secretary To Lam's visit will serve as a driving force and source of inspiration for the two countries to inherit, promote, and elevate their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, contributing to the national construction and development cause in each country, and to peace, cooperation, and development in the region and the world.
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The visits reflected the elevated position of Vietnam’s foreign policy in the new era—aimed at not only advancing ties with key regional partners like Egypt and Angola but also delivering a strategic message about Vietnam’s commitment to deepening relations with African nations as a whole.
At their talks and meetings, President Cuong and Angola’s top leaders affirmed that the close brotherhood and traditional friendship are a valuable shared asset and a solid foundation for the two nations to advance into a new phase of development.
The ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) attaches great importance to the friendship, solidarity, and comradeship with the Communist Party of Vietnam, and voiced her Party’s wish to further deepen and expand relations between the two sides for the benefit of the Vietnamese and Angolan people.
Vietnam pledges to do its utmost to build an ASEAN of solidarity, consensus, and unity in diversity, and to foster a fast and sustainable development path for ASEAN, grounded in science, technology, and innovation, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
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The achievements of the five decades of Vietnam–Angola cooperation provide a strong and enduring foundation, as well as momentum for the two sides to consolidate, expand, and bring their partnership into a new phase of development.
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Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen (second from right) and former Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide (second from left) at the meeting on January 11 (Photo: VNA) 
