New York, May 1 -- Vietnam attaches great importance to the increasingly close and effective Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with Japan, as well as the close and foundational ties between their Communist Parties, Ambassador Do Hung Viet has said.

Viet, head of Vietnam's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, made the statement in New York on April 29 while receiving Shii Kazuo, Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) for discussions on the 11th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT RevCon 11).

Also in attendance were Ogata Yasuo, Vice Chairman of the JCP Central Committee, and Kira Yoshiko, a member of the JCP Central Committee and the Hous...