Quang Ninh, Nov. 25 -- Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung on November 25 received Yamamoto Ichita, Governor of Japan's Gunma prefecture, who is in Vietnam to attend the first Vietnam-Japan Local Cooperation Forum.

Welcoming the Japanese guest, Trung highlighted the significance of his participation in the forum, which is held for the first time in Vietnam under agreements reached by the two countries' top leaders.

Trung highly valued the practical cooperation between Gunma and Vietnamese localities in recent years, especially in people-to-people exchanges, education and training, labour mobility, business linkages and investment promotion. He thanked Governor Yamamoto and the Gunma adm...