(VOVworld) – National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung has praised the fine development of relations between Vietnam and Japan as well as their communist parties. At a reception for the President of the Communist Party of Japan Shii Kazuo on Tuesday, Chairman Hung said he believed that the Communist Party of Japan would continue to develop, contributing to communist and workers’ movements around the world and Japan’s socio-economic development. He added that Vietnam’s National Assembly has been expanding its regional and international cooperation including relations with Japan.

Japanese Communist Party President Shii Kazuo expressed his pleasure at the two parties’ agreement elevating their relations to a new level. He said that the two parties would continue to share their theories, work more closely together and increase mutual support in the years to come.