Japanese communist leader visits Vietnam
(VOV) - The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) will spare no effort to consolidate its relations with the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), helping strengthen cooperation ties between the two countries, says a senior JCP leader.
Ogata Yasuo, Vice President of the JCP and head of the JCP’s International Department, was speaking at a reception in Hanoi on March 26 hosted by To Huy Rua, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, and head of the CPV’s Central Organisation Commission.
Ogata said the JCP-CPV relations have grown and flourished following a Vietnam visit in September 2013 by JCP President Shii Kazuo, the fifth theoretical exchange in Tokyo, and a meeting between President Shii and Vietnamese State President Truong Tan Sang during the latter’s freshly concluded Japan visit.
For his part, Rua, who is also President of the Vietnam-Japan parliamentary friendship group, congratulated the JCP on the success of its recent 26th national congress, and expressed his belief the JCP will reap greater success in the near future to raise its profile globally.
He said Ogata’s visit will contribute to strengthening the CPV-JCP relations, promoting friendship, and deepening the recently established extensive strategic partnership for peace and prosperity in Asia between Vietnam and Japan.
The same day, the Japanese delegation held talks a CPV delegation led by Hoang Binh Quan, head of the Party’s External Relations.
Both sides agreed to increase visit exchanges between the two parties, their agencies, youths and people’s organisations to promote friendship and mutual understanding.