President Nguyen Xuan Phuc to attend state funeral of late Japanese PM Abe Shinzo
VGP - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc left Ha Noi on September 25 to attend the state funeral of late Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in Tokyo, Japan, from September 25 to 28.
Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc
The President is accompanied by the members of the Party Central Committee: Chairman of the Presidential Office Le Khanh Hai, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung, Chairman of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee Vu Hai Ha; along with leaders of the Party Central Committee's Commission for External Relations and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs.
Abe was born on September 21, 1954. He had special sentiments towards Viet Nam and always attached great importance and interest to promoting bilateral relations.
He signed the Japan-Viet Nam Joint Statement “Toward a Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity in Asia” in 2006, setting the first milestone for the strategic partnership between the two countries, and signed another joint statement upgrading the relationship to an extensive strategic partnership for peace and prosperity in Asia in March 2014./.
