The other members of the delegation were Mr. Toyokuni Kakurai, Chairman of the Co-operative Alliance in Irabaki Province and Mr. Koki Kobayashi, former Minister of Finance and representatives of Japanese businesses.
Mr. Koki Kobayashi said the aim of the delegation’s visit is making a research on Vietnam’s market, looking for investment and cooperation opportunities in the fields of construction, bridges and roads, vegetable and fruit import - export, and, transfer of Japan’s advanced technology to Vietnam, especially in agricultural sector.
Earlier, the delegation had a meeting with the Vietnam Co-operative Alliance to discuss on human resource training in agricultural sector for Vietnam, in which about 3000 Vietnamese agricultural experts will be sent to Japan for training.
Mr. Toshiaki Koizumi added he had had a meeting with the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan about the plan to send Japanese vegetable and fruit import export businesses to Vietnam for market researching.
President Vu Xuan Hong acclaimed the visit to VUFO and purposes of the delegation. He said that agricultural modernization is a top priority in Vietnam and expected that the Japanese friends continue to help Vietnam in agriculture not only in human resource training, but also in other fields as plant seeds , processing technology ...
The year of 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Japan, he added, and a number of meaningful activities celebrating this event will be held this year. Only in the field of people-to-people relations, he said, there are about 40 celebrating activities, in which the remarkable one is the Vietnam – Japan People's Friendship Festival in September 2013. And he hoped that the friendship and cooperation relations between Vietnam and Japan, through these activities, will be even stronger and closer. /.
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