National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man meets with Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru. Photo: Le Tuyet/VOV

At the meeting, Chairman Man applauded the outcomes of meetings between Prime Minister Ishiba and General Secretary To Lam and President Luong Cuong, as well as talks with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. He said the visit to Vietnam by the Japanese Prime Minister opens up many new opportunities for cooperation in all fields, especially in economics, trade, science and technology, digital transformation, high-quality human resource training, labor and local cooperation and people-to-people exchanges.

The top legislator suggested that the two sides strengthen cooperation in four priority areas, including economy, human resource training, people-to-people exchanges and local cooperation. He expressed his hope that the two sides would increase cultural and tourism exchanges and close cooperation between localities of the two countries.

Agreeing with this proposal, Prime Minister Ishiba said Japan will continue to support Vietnam's development through strengthening cooperation in high-tech industry, training high-quality human resources, and semiconductor. Japan will also help Vietnam build infrastructure, respond to natural disasters, climate change, green transformation, digital transformation.

The two leaders pledged to strengthen coordination, share stances, and cooperate on regional and global issues of mutual concern; continue to coordinate at regional and world forums closely and effectively, like Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA), and Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF).