Top Lao leader hails role of Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association

Party General Secretary and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith spoke highly of the role of the Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association in organising people-to-people exchange activities.
July 20, 2017 | 10:10

Party General Secretary and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith spoke highly of the role of the Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association in organising people-to-people exchange activities.

Top Lao leader hails role of Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association

Party General Secretary and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith (R) and President Tran Van Tuy of the Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association.

These activities will help to educate the two countries’ people, especially young generations, on their special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation, he said, at his reception on July 19th for a delegation from the association led by its President Tran Van Tuy.

He expressed his hope that each member of the association will make further practical contributions to further tighten the relationship between the two peoples.

Tuy, who is a member of the Party Central Committee, and Deputy Head of its Organisation Commission, affirmed that Vietnam always bears in mind Laos’s wholehearted support during the past arduous years.

His association will maintain close coordination with the Laos-Vietnam Friendship Association to ensure the bilateral relations last forever, in the interests of the two peoples and for peace, cooperation and development in the region and the world, he added.

The Vietnamese delegation is in Laos to attend the fourth Laos-Vietnam People-to-People Friendship Festival on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties and 40 years since signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.

The festival in Xiangkhouang province will last until July 22nd./.

Top Lao leader hails role of Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association

Top Lao leader hails role of Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association

Top Lao leader hails role of Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association

At the meeting between the Vietnamese delegation and Party General Secretary and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith.

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