Việt Nam sees Japan as important strategic partner: Party official

TOKYO – Việt Nam always views Japan as an important and long-term strategic partner, and stands ready to develop the bilateral ties to a stronger and more comprehensive and practical fashion on the basis of its foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralism and diversification, a senior Vietnamese Party official has said. Politburo member, permanent member of the Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV) Central Committee’s Secretariat and Chairwoman of the Party Central Committee’s Organisation Commission Trương Thị Mai made the statement while meeting with high-ranking Japanese leaders in Tokyo on Tuesday. Mai also had discussions with Chairman of the Presidium of the Japanese Communist Party Central Committee Shii Kazuo and Chairman of the Japan – Việt Nam Parliamentarian Friendship Alliance Nikai Toshihiro, and received Governor of Yamanashi prefecture Kotaro Nagasaki. She conveyed Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng’s greetings to the Japanese leaders, and congratulated Japan on its achievements in various fields over the past time. They affirmed that Việt Nam is an important strategic partner of Japan in the region, stressing they are willing to support and accompany Việt Nam for a country of independence, self-reliance and development with its industrialisation, modernisation and comprehensive and intensive international integration.