Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked visiting former Japanese premier Yasuo Fukuda to support the signing of a bilateral partnership agreement between the two countries and the restoration of Japan’s aids to Vietnam.

Receiving Yasuo Fukuda who is on an unofficial visit to Vietnam, Dung praised the support provided by the Japanese government in recent times.

However, the recent suspension of Official Development Assistance (ODA) preferential loans to Vietnam would affect the good relations between the two countries, he said.

The former Japanese government leader is on an unofficial visit to Vietnam to attend the two-day international conference on population and development that opened Saturday in Hanoi.

The two leaders agreed the Pacific Consultants International (PCI) case must be solved completely, and that ODA management should be tightened to avoid similar problems in the future.

Source: government website