(VOVworld) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received the visiting special advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarian Alliance, Tsutomu Takebe, in Hanoi on Tuesday.

The Prime Minister reiterated Vietnam’s respect for its strategic partnership with Japan and hoped that good bilateral cooperation would contribute to peace, stability and development. He pledged close cooperation with Japan to help get the Vietnam-Japan University up and running as soon as possible. The Prime Minister called for more cooperation with Japan in agriculture and training.