At the reception, General Secretary and President To Lam affirmed that Vietnam adheres to the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, cooperation and development, multilateralization, diversification, the 4-no defense policy, promoting relations with partners to become increasingly in-depth and effective, in which Japan is always considered one of the top important strategic partners, reliable and long-term stable.
General Secretary and President To Lam outlined major orientations to strengthen strategic cooperation between the two countries, including strengthening political trust, cooperation between Party and Government channels and at the local level; consolidating substantive and effective defense and security cooperation; strengthening economic linkages, ensuring economic security, food and energy security, and expanding to new fields such as digital transformation, energy transformation, green transformation, semiconductor, AI,... associated with Japan's strengths in science and technology; effectively implementing cooperation contents on science and technology through training high-quality human resources, promoting joint research; promoting human resource cooperation through labor, education, local, cultural-social, tourism and people-to-people exchanges.
The Japanese Prime Minister emphasized the importance of Vietnam-Japan economic cooperation to ensure economic security, contributing to strengthening strategic autonomy and resilience of both countries, through promoting cooperation in strategic areas such as semiconductor industry development, high technology, digital transformation and green transformation, public-private partnership in strengthening energy and mineral supply chains, AI and space cooperation, and implementing projects within the framework of the Power ASIA initiative that Japan launched at the recent expanded AZEC Online Summit.
The Japanese Prime Minister pledged to implement the first cooperation project within the framework of the POWER ASIA initiative through supporting the purchase of crude oil for the Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Plant to ensure the plant operates at 100% capacity; wishing to cooperate with Vietnam to promote energy, gas power and strategic mineral projects.
The Japanese Prime Minister affirmed that he will continue to support and create conditions for the community of nearly 700,000 Vietnamese people living, studying, and working in Japan on the basis of policies to build a Japanese society that is orderly and harmonious, living with foreigners; agreed that the two sides need to strengthen consular exchanges, including sharing and coordinating consular notifications between the two countries, and close coordination in crime prevention and control.
