Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has asked the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to focus its financial assistance on Vietnam’s prioritised areas such as high-quality human resources development and improvement of the market economy institution and synchronous infrastructure structure.
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| Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan receives new JICA Chief Representative Mutsuya Mori |
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has asked the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to focus its financial assistance on Vietnam’s prioritised areas such as high-quality human resources development and improvement of the market economy institution and synchronous infrastructure structure.
The Deputy Prime Minister delivered the message while receiving new JICA Chief Representative Mutsuya Mori in Hanoi on July 15.
Deputy PM Nhan highly valued development cooperation programmes that the Japanese agency has provided for Vietnam over the past years.
The increasingly strong flow of official development assistance (ODA) coming through JICA for infrastructure development projects in Vietnam such as transportation, poverty reduction, human resources training and administrative reform has directly contributed to the country’s development, he noted.
He affirmed that Vietnam has been using Japanese ODA in an effective manner and for the right purposes.
The host expressed his wish that the new JICA Chief Representative will continue to make active contributions to strengthening the friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Japan.
For his part, Mutsuya Mori spoke highly of the Vietnamese Government’s macroeconomic policies and its efforts to curb inflation, showing his belief that Vietnam, a strategic partner of Japan, will achieve greater success on the path of national construction.
He conveyed his gratitude to the Vietnamese Government and people for their invaluable and effective support, both materially and spiritually, to Japan when it was hit by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
The JICA representative said that the developing relationship between the two nations has been demonstrated via increasingly effective cooperation programmes between JICA and Vietnam.
He also confirmed that his Government has always prioritised ODA for Vietnam, particularly in projects to develop highly-skilled human resources and vocational training.
(Source: VNA)
