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| Prime Minister Lê Minh Hưng and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae meet the press on May 2. — VNA/VNS Photo Dương Giang |
HÀ NỘI — Prime Ministers Lê Minh Hưng and Takaichi Sanae of Japan signed six bilateral co-operation paperwork and held a joint press convention on Saturday morning following summit talks on the Government headquarters.
PM Hưng mentioned Sanae’s first official go to to Việt Nam marked an necessary milestone, creating new momentum and alternatives for the 2 nations. He famous that Japan is Việt Nam’s prime supplier of official improvement help (ODA) and its largest companion in labour co-operation, third in funding and fourth in trade.
In 2025, ODA co-operation rose by greater than $600 million, two-way trade exceeded $50 billion for the primary time, and funding grew by almost $4 billion throughout almost 300 new tasks. Dozens of joint initiatives in science and know-how, semiconductors, digital transformation, inexperienced transition, renewable power and house are beneath method.
The two sides agreed to target Japanese funding in Việt Nam of $5 billion per 12 months at an early date and bilateral trade of $60 billion by 2030. They additionally agreed to encourage Japanese enterprises to put money into high-technology tasks with know-how switch, to assist Vietnamese companies investing in Japan, and to promote market entry for agricultural merchandise.
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| Vietnamese Prime Minister Lê Minh Hưng and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae witness the trade of an amended settlement between the Việt Nam National Space Center beneath the Việt Nam Academy of Science and Technology and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on satellite tv for pc information sharing on May 2. — VNA/VNS Photo Dương Giang |
Hưng mentioned either side had agreed on key instructions to advance the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership into a brand new part. These embrace deepening political belief by way of substantive co-operation in defence, safety and diplomacy; sustaining ministerial-level mechanisms protecting trade, business, power, science and know-how; and implementing a Deputy Minister-level 2+2 dialogue on international affairs and defence.
The two sides will strengthen safety co-operation in maritime legislation enforcement, cyber safety, United Nations peacekeeping, battle legacy remediation and combating transnational crime.
On science, know-how and innovation, either side dedicated to concrete co-operation in inexperienced transition, digital transformation, synthetic intelligence, semiconductors and house, with precedence given to high-quality human useful resource coaching and joint analysis. They agreed to maintain a Joint Committee on Science and Technology Co-operation assembly in 2026, organise a public–non-public high-technology trade occasion, and implement tasks beneath the POWERR ASIA2 Initiative supporting power self-reliance in Asia.
Hưng welcomed the announcement of co-funding for 15 Việt Nam–Japan joint semiconductor analysis tasks beneath the NEXUS³ programme, and thanked Japan for supporting Việt Nam’s a million hectare high-quality, low-emission rice undertaking within the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta.
Both leaders agreed to reaffirm the significance of resolving disputes within the East Sea (internationally often called the South China Sea) by way of peaceable means beneath worldwide legislation and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982. Hưng mentioned Việt Nam helps Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) imaginative and prescient in reference to the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP) and in adherence to worldwide legislation.
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| Prime Minister Lê Minh Hưng and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae witnessed the trade of a memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Science and Technology of Việt Nam and Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on cooperation in data and communications know-how (ICT) and digital transformation. — VNA/VNS Photo Dương Giang |
PM Sanae mentioned strengthening co-operation with Việt Nam was of the utmost significance for realising the FOIP imaginative and prescient. She described Việt Nam as an necessary hyperlink in provide chains and recommended the nation’s improvement progress lately. She mentioned the 2 sides had agreed to determine financial safety – encompassing power, crucial minerals, synthetic intelligence, semiconductors and house – as a brand new precedence space in bilateral co-operation.
The Japanese Prime Minister additionally mentioned either side had exchanged views on regional and worldwide points, and careworn the significance of increasing the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) whereas sustaining its excessive requirements.
The six paperwork signed within the presence of each leaders lined: two JICA mortgage agreements for disaster-resilient rural improvement and climate-resilient infrastructure for ethnic minority communities within the northern midland and mountainous provinces; a memorandum on low-carbon development beneath the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM); a memorandum on irrigation know-how trade between the 2 nations’ agriculture ministries; a memorandum on data and communications know-how (ICT) and digital transformation co-operation between the 2 science and know-how ministries; and an modification to the satellite tv for pc information trade settlement between the Việt Nam Space Centre and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. — VNS