Attended at the meeting, Governor of the Ai-chi province, Hideaki Ohmura reported to the Minister and Vietnamese delegation on his visit to Vietnam himself and some initial results achieved in the Ai-chi province in the expansion relationship between this local cooperation of Japan with some of ministries, sectors and localities of Vietnam.

Minister also gave thanks for the Governor, provincial government and Ai-chi to support and care expenses for Vietnamese community living, studying or training in the province and suggested the Governor and provincial authorities continued to encourage companies in the Ai-chi province to increase investment and business in Vietnam to strengthen mutual understanding between the parties. On behalf of the Ministry of Justice, the Minister pledged to do his utmost to advise the Government of Vietnam in improving the investment environment and business to help create conditions for enterprises of Ai-chi do more successful operation in Vietnam.

Minister and members of the delegation heard a number of leaders representing the province's agency-chi who presented the paper relating to structures, institutions, local self-government operation and function, the position of Parliament and local relationships with the executive of local government and some other issues related to model and scope for local decentralization of Japan in the field of education, health, finance and budget issues right people for the local authorities...