Deputy PM holds phone talks with Japan’s Gunma Governor
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh held phone talks with Governor of Japan’s Gunma prefecture Yamamoto Ichita on November 18 to discuss measures to support Vietnamese citizens and promote bilateral cooperation.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh holds phone talks with Governor of Japan’s Gunma prefecture Yamamoto Ichita on November 18 (Photo: Vietnam Government Portal)
Hanoi (VNA) –Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh held phonetalks with Governor of Japan’s Gunma prefecture Yamamoto Ichita on November 18to discuss measures to support Vietnamese citizens and promote bilateralcooperation.
Minh expressed his delight at the development ofthe two countries’ extensive strategic partnership as well as Vietnam’scooperation with Gunma in particular, appreciating the Gunma administration’svarious measures to support Vietnamese people there such as setting up ahotline providing COVID-19-related advice in Vietnamese and offering help forforeigners, including Vietnamese, who catch the disease.
He noted that the Vietnamese Government iscarrying out measures to help its citizens in Japan and hopes that Gunmaauthorities will continue assisting Vietnamese people there to cope with thepandemic.
Applauding the prefecture’s active promotion ofexchange with Vietnam, Minh asked Yamamoto to coordinate in promoting thereception of Vietnamese workers and apprentices, enhancing cultural exchange,and encouraging Gunma businesses to increase investment in Vietnam.
For his part, the governor pledged to workclosely with the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan to actively help Vietnamesecitizens stabilise their lives and carry out anti-COVID-19 measures.
He noted Japanese enterprises, including thosefrom Gunma, are interested in and highly value Vietnam’s investment climate, affirmingthat his prefecture’s administration will continue assisting and encouraginglocal businesses to invest in Vietnam.
At the meeting, Yamamoto proposed the two sidesboost cooperation to create a favourable environment for Vietnamese apprenticesin Gunma. He also suggested the Gunma Prefectural Women’s University anduniversities of Vietnam step up exchange.
Minh welcomed the governor’s proposals, notingthat he will ask related ministries, sectors and the Vietnamese Embassy todiscuss with Gunma so as to realise the suggestions effectively.
There are about 10,000 Vietnamese in Gunma atpresent, making this prefecture home to the highest ratio of Vietnamese peopleto the population in Japan./.
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh holds phone talks with Governor of Japan’s Gunma prefecture Yamamoto Ichita on November 18 (Photo: Vietnam Government Portal) 
