At the talks and the meeting, both sides discussed specific measures to speed up the outcomes of the Japan visit by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in early July as well as other visits of senior leaders in the time ahead to further deepen the two countries’ extensive strategic partnership.
Both sides concurred to organise meetings on agriculture to early sign a medium- and long-term vision for agricultural cooperation in 2015, while soon holding the first meeting of the Vietnam-Japan Joint Committee on Industry, Trade and Energy Cooperation, and implementing the sixth phase of the joint initiative on improving investment environment. Foreign Minister Kishida committed to accelerating procedures to early sign ODA projects with Vietnam in the 2015 fiscal year, including six additional projects worth 2.25 billion USD. The Vietnamese official, in turn, spoke of the Japanese Government’s facilitation of visa granting to Vietnamese citizens as well as its decision to receive up to 500 Vietnamese orderlies each year.
