An exchange between members of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO), the Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association and a Lao patriotic personalities’ delegation was held in Hanoi on July 23 to celebrate the 100 th birthday of late Laotian President Souphanouvong.

Speaking at the ceremony, VUFO President Vu Xuan Hong emphasised the late Laotian president’s great role in the process of the struggle and construction of a thriving Lao nation as well as in the effort to build friendship and solidarity between Vietnam and Laos.

The celebration to mark the 100th birthday of the late Laotian President serves as an opportunity for the two peoples to deepen the traditional cooperation and friendship between the two nations, he added.

Major General Phouvong Vongphom from the Laos-Vietnam Friendship Association, who is leading the delegation of Lao patriotic personalities to Vietnam, said that each member of the delegation will inherit and bring into full play the strength of a great leader, the late Laotian President Souphanouvong, to build Lao-Viet friendship as well as educate new generations.

Anouvong Souphanouvong, a son of the late president, vowed to continue to build on the longstanding ties between the two parties and the two nations.

The exchange was replete with singing voices and musical performances in praise of Viet-Lao unity./.