Friendship Association's contributions to Vietnam-Japan ties praised
VOV.VN - The Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association (VJFA)’s chapter in Hanoi (VJFA Hanoi) held its fifth congress on September 30 to outline operational orientations for 2017-2022.
In her address, Nguyen Lan Huong, Chairwoman of the Hanoi Union of Friendship Organisations, praised the VJFA Hanoi's contributions to strengthening the friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Japan in the areas of environment, transport and green technology over the past time, thereby helping boost the capital city’s socio-economic development.
She urged the chapter to push up its partnerships and expand relations with Japanese partners by calling for investment and transferring technologies in environmental protection and urban transport development, especially in major urban areas like Hanoi.
Over the past tenure, the VJFA Hanoi pooled different resources for its operations, reinforced its solidarity and friendship with the Japanese Embassy in Vietnam and coordinated with relevant agencies to organise practical activities aimed at tightening the solidarity and friendship between Hanoi and Tokyo.
It also helped step up communications to promulgate foreign policies, especially people-to-people diplomacy, of the Party, State and Hanoi in particular, while promoting the land and people of Vietnam and Hanoi to Japanese friends, and conducted numerous visits and cross-cultural exchange programmes.
The congress elected a 26-member executive board headed by Vu Van Vien, Director of the municipal Department of Transport for 2017-2022.