Vietnamese and Lao youths should promote exchange activities and cooperation to contribute to maintaining and further developing the Vietnam-Laos special relationship, a Vietnamese official has said.

First Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee Nguyen Dac Vinh made the suggestion at his meeting with Politburo member and Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee Bounpon Buttanavong on Jan. 12 in Vientiane , in the framework of the Vietnamese youth delegation’s visit to Laos from Jan. 10-14.

At the meeting, Vinh informed the Lao leader on the results of the talks with the Lao People’s Revolutionary Youth Union Central Committee’s delegation.

He said that the two countries’ youth unions should strengthen cooperation and experience exchange in youth related works and training, especially in border localities, in order to help the two countries’ young enterprises to foster investment cooperation.

Bounpon Buttanavong spoke highly of the recent cooperation between the two youth unions, acclaiming the cooperative agreement in the 2012-2017 period that was signed by the two sides.

He said the LPRP always creates favourable conditions for the two countries’ youth unions to strengthen cooperation, expressing his hope that the two youth unions will cooperate effectively in the future, contributing to maintaining and developing the special friendship between the two countries. /.