TOKYO, April 13 -- Prime Minister and His Cabinet issued the following information:
On April 13, commencing at 15:00 p.m. for approximately 20 minutes, Ms. TAKAICHI Sanae, Prime Minister of Japan, held a telephone meeting with H.E. Mr. To Lam, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.
At the outset, Prime Minister TAKAICHI offered her congratulations to Secretary General and President To Lam on the General Secretary's reappointment and on his assumption of the office of President, and stated that, amid the increasingly severe strategic environment in the region, Japan is willing to further strengthen relations with Viet Nam, which upholds "strategic self-reliance...