Japanese Prime Minister is about to visit Vietnam
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio will pay an official visit to Vietnam this weekend, at the invitation of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today released a statement saying that the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio will take place from April 30 to May 1, about 5 months after he took office as prime minister of Japan. Mr. Fumio is also the Secretary General of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio at a press conference in Tokyo on April 26. Image: AFP
Vietnam – Japan established diplomatic relations in 1973. Japan is Vietnam’s leading economic partner and the first G7 country to recognize Vietnam’s market economic status in October/ 2011. Japan is the largest ODA donor, the third largest tourism partner, and the fourth largest trade partner of Vietnam.
In 2021, bilateral trade turnover will reach 42.7 billion USD. As of March 20, Japan had 4,828 valid FDI projects in Vietnam with a total registered investment capital of more than 64.4 billion USD, ranking third after South Korea and Singapore out of 139 countries and territories. invest in Vietnam.
There are more than 51,000 Vietnamese international students in Japan. Japan is cooperating to upgrade four Vietnamese universities to high-quality universities.
At the end of November 2021, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh paid an official visit to Japan. He is the first foreign leader that Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has received since taking office. Mr. Kishida then expressed Japan’s desire for Vietnam to become a center of economic recovery and development after the pandemic.
Ngoc Anh
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