Lao minister affirms significance to preserving Laos - Vietnam ties
President To Lam’s state visit to Laos on July 11-12, his first overseas trip since he took office, demonstrates the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between the two parties, states and peoples which have been nurtured for a long time, a Lao official has said.
Minister of Technology and Communications and Chairman of the Laos – Vietnam Friendship Association Boviengkham Vongdara. (Photo: VNA)
Vientiane (VNA) – President To Lam’s state visit to Laos on July 11-12, his first overseas trip since he took office, demonstrates the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between the two parties, states and peoples which have been nurtured for a long time, a Lao official has said.
Minister of Technology and Communications and Chairman of the Laos – Vietnam Friendship Association Boviengkham Vongdara told the Vietnam News Agency that it is Laos’ honour to welcome President Lam who will make his first state visit to the nation.
Amidst the complicated and unpredictable developments in the region and the world, as well as tensions in geopolitics and economy and natural disasters across the globe that may affect the development in both countries, Vongdara held that Vietnam and Laos should stand shoulders by shoulders to preserve their ties by consolidating cooperation across all areas, including the party work and political education for young generations, while working together in defence-security and culture-society.
The Laos - Vietnam Friendship Associatio𒀰n will promote people-to-people exchange, a channel that helps the two nations' people to tighten and develop their relations into a deeper fashion, he said, adding it will continue raising young generations' awareness of the great friendship between the two countries, and the significance to preserving it for mutual development./.
President To Lam will make a state visit to Laos on July 11-12, his first overseas trip since he took office, demonstrating Vietnam’s top priority to consolidate and nurture the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with the neighbouring nation, according to a Lao scholar.
President To Lam’s upcoming state visit to Laos, his first trip abroad after taking office in June, shows the Vietnamese Party and State's consistent policy on attaching great importance and giving the highest priority to reinforcing the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with Laos, said Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Ba Hung.
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