JAPANESE MISSION TO STUDY ECONOMIC TIES

Japan will send a government mission to Vietnam from Oct. 22 to 29 to study future
economic cooperation, Foreign Ministry sources said on Thursday.

Japan and Vietnam agreed on the dispatch when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met his
counterpart, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, in Hanoi in August, the source said. .

The 25-member team, which includes officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs,
Finance, Industry and Trade, and Construction will meet with their Vietnamese counterparts
to discuss the nation's midterm economic development plan and macro-economic policies,
they said.

The two sides will also discuss Japan’s future economic cooperation and areas for the
assistance.

Japan considers it important to first train Vietnamese personnel to promote a market-

oriented economy and to support establishment of systems, and to cooperate in such areas
as electricity, transportation and agriculture, the sources said.

Japan has sent similar economic missions to Kenya, Indonesia and the Philippines.