August 22, 2025

Japanese Communist Party Vice Chair Ogata Yasuo, who is in charge of the JCP International Commission, held talks with the visiting Vice President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) Dong Huy Cuong on August 21 at the JCP head office in Tokyo.

Ogata referred to the participation of the Vietnam Peace Committee in this year’s World Conference against A and H Bombs, and thanked Cuong for the cooperation of Vietnamese peace and friendship organizations in working to achieve a world without nuclear weapons. He expressed his hope to continue working together with Vietnam on various occasions, including the next year’s NPT Review Conference in which Vietnam will serve as president.

Cuong stressed that Vietnam, as shown in its early ratification of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), has firmly called for nuclear disarmament and places importance on collaboration with the JCP and antinuke civil organizations like the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo) and the Japan Council against A and H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo).

The VUFO vice president stated that his organization plays a part in promoting people-to-people diplomacy between Vietnam and other countries, adding that the VUFO hopes to strengthen solidarity among peoples of Vietnam and Japan through an increase in exchanges between the two countries’ civil organizations and NGOs.

Ogata touched on the current international situation and said that in order to defend a peaceful order based on the UN Charter and international law from “power politics” by great powers, civil society’s role and solidarity among peoples of the world have become more important than ever.