Takebe expressed his delight at the fine development in Vietnam-Japan relations and stressed that his visit aims to promote cooperation between the two parliaments and their friendship parliamentarians’ alliances.

Mr Rua, who is also President of the Vietnam-Japan Parliamentarians’ Friendship Group, reaffirmed that the Party, National Assembly and Government of Vietnam have a consistent policy to develop multifaceted relations with Japan and highly value the effective cooperation between the two countries’ legislative bodies and friendship parliamentarians’ alliances.