According to the Office of the National Assembly, at the talks, the two sides agreed to make joint efforts to strengthen political trust, promote and deepen cooperation on all channels of the Party, Government, National Assembly, and people, promote exchanges and contacts at high and all levels; strengthen cooperation between the National Assembly of Vietnam and the House of Representatives of Japan through promoting delegation exchanges between specialized agencies, the Parliamentary Friendship Union, young parliamentarians, and female parliamentarians; continue to promote cooperation, exchanges, and experience sharing between specialized committees; soon promote discussions on the possibility of signing a Cooperation Agreement between the National Assembly of Vietnam and the House of Representatives of Japan to enhance the effectiveness of cooperation activities between the two countries' legislatures, creating favorable conditions for the two sides to carry out bilateral and multilateral cooperation activities.
Emphasizing that defense and security cooperation continues to be one of the important pillars in the bilateral relationship, the two sides agreed to promote cooperation in this field, including the implementation of the Agreement on the transfer of defense technology and equipment; Japan supports Vietnam in the defense industry, improving the capacity of United Nations peacekeeping; overcoming the consequences of war, and search and rescue.
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man thanked and highly appreciated Japan's ODA capital for Vietnam over the past 30 years; proposed that Japan implement new generation ODA cooperation for Vietnam with high incentives, simple and flexible procedures in large-scale strategic infrastructure development projects in Vietnam, and support the training of high-quality human resources.
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man affirmed that the Vietnamese National Assembly is actively perfecting a favorable legal corridor, improving the investment environment, helping foreign enterprises, including Japanese enterprises, to increase stable and long-term investment in Vietnam, ensuring fairness and equality between Vietnamese and foreign investors.
House of Representatives Speaker Nukaga Fukushiro affirmed that the Japanese National Assembly supports the two countries in strengthening economic cooperation, ODA, investment, and trade between the two countries; said that Japan is promoting the diversification of supply chains, many Japanese enterprises wish to expand the quantity and scale of investment in Vietnam, as well as improve the investment environment in Vietnam.
The two sides agreed to promote the expansion of comprehensive cooperation into new areas such as artificial intelligence, digital transformation, innovation, digital society, green transformation, energy transformation; and cooperate in investment and human resource training. National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man also asked Japan to support Vietnam to participate more deeply in the global semiconductor supply chain of Japanese enterprises.
Regarding labor and local connections, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man proposed to promote cooperation in this field. Appreciating the contribution of the Vietnamese community in Japan to the socio-economic development of Japan, the Speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives pledged to continue expanding the occupations and numbers of Vietnamese workers; improve the living and working environment, and equal social security for Vietnamese people in Japan.
