Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe agreed to increase political trust by maintaining high-level exchange visits and meetings, and increasing the efficiency of dialogue mechanisms at their talks in Hanoi on January 16. During their talks immediately after the welcome ceremony, PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc hailed PM Shinzo Abe as the first foreign high-ranking leader to

On January 16, Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong, President Tran Dai Quang and National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan affirmed Vietnam's desire to deepen extensive strategic partnership with Japan while receiving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Hanoi. Meeting with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, the Party leader reiterated Vetnam’s unwavering policy of further deepening its extensive strategic pa

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe begins on January 16 a two-day visit to Vietnam, the last leg of his first trip abroad in 2017. Prime Minister Abe and his spouse are visiting Vietnam at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc after touring three other Asia – Pacific countries – the Philippines, Australia and Indonesia. The visit reflects the importance that Japan attaches

          The Year 2017 is a special year- when ASEAN celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Vietnam always considers Japan its top and long-time partner, said Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong while receiving newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Umeda Kunio in Hanoi on December 14.   He congratulated the ambassador on taking office when the bilateral strategic partnership is thriving. The Party leader said he believes that the diplomat, with his experience, will make ac

  CPV Central Committee’s Organisation Commission Phạm Minh Chính (L) meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said  that he wants stronger cooperation between his country’s Liberal Democratic Party and the Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV). Meeting with the head of the CPV Central Committee’s Organisation Commission, Phạm Minh Chính, in Tokyo, Abe expr

Multilateral diplomacy deserves to have a higher place among priorities of Vietnam’s foreign policy in the coming time, said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh in a recent article. The official explained that the growing globalization and emergence of challenges on a global scale call for cooperation among countries, regardless of their size, and multilateral frameworks pro

Defense ties between Vietnam and Japan are growing comprehensively with a range of cooperative mechanisms, said Deputy Defense Minister, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh. In an interview with Voice of Vietnam (VOV) on the Vietnam-Japan defense policy dialogue in Tokyo on November 29, Mr Vinh said that the two sides successfully established mutual trust after three rounds of defense dialo