Japan Aids Vietnam to Rehabilitate Flood-hit Areas

Japan will provide Vietnam with a non-refundable aid worth JPY 600 million (US$7.2 million) to rehabilitate public infrastructure damaged by floods and storms in the Mekong Delta region. An exchange note to this effect was signed by Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Tanizaki Yasuaki and Vietnamese Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Cao Duc Phat.

 

The fund will be used to purchase necessary machinery and equipment for repairing infrastructural works damaged by storms and flooding in 2011 in the Mekong Delta.

 

Addressing at the signing ceremony, Ambassador Tanizaki Yasuaki said he believed that through Japan’s assistance and Vietnam’s efforts, living conditions of people in affected areas will be restored soon and a mechanism for natural disaster control will be improved, protecting people’s lives.