Lao Party leader affirms close-knit relationship with Vietnam

The Party and State of Laos place high importance on preserving and enhancing the friendship, special, loyal and pure solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation with Vietnam.

Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong hosts a welcome ceremony forGeneral Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith 

General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith made the statement during his talks with Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi on April 25.

The Lao leader is on a three-day official friendly visit to Vietnam at the invitation of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and President Tran Dai Quang.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong described the visit as an important event taking place after the Party Congress in each nation and the election of the eighth Lao National Assembly.

The visit will reap successes. helping promote relations between the two Parties and States in the coming time, Trong told his guest.

Bounnhang Volachith in turn congratulated the Vietnamese Party chief on his re-election as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) for 2016-2021.

Vietnam is always Laos’ trustworthy and close friend, the Lao leader said, adding that under the leadership of the CPV, Vietnamese people will obtain event greater achievements to develop the country into a modernity-oriented industrialised nation and raise its regional and international profile.

Meanwhile, the visit to Vietnam by General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President Bounnhang Volachith is widely covered by the Vietnamese media.

The Nhan Dan (People) newspaper called Vietnam and Laos good neighbors and said the Party, State, and people of Vietnam do their best to work with Lao partners to nurture and develop Vietnam-Laos ties.

The visit to Vietnam by President Volachith will enforce their traditional friendship, bring Vietnam-Laos ties to a new height, and benefit the two peoples for peace, stability, and development in the region.

The Quan Doi Nhan Dan (People’s Army) newspaper said the visit by President Volachith will help to confirm the consistent diplomatic policies of Vietnam and Laos which attach importance to maintaining and developing friendship, solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Laos, and will enhance political trust between the two Parties and states in the coming time.

During the visit, the two sides will discuss a score of measures to accelerate the implementation of high-level agreements reached by the two Parties and States, it said.

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