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Fatherland Front leader receives Lao counterpart

Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Tran Thanh Man hosted a reception in Hanoi on August 14 for Saysomphone Phomvihane, Politburo member of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of the Standing Committee of the Lao Front for National Construction.
Fatherland Front leader receives Lao counterpart ảnh 1Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Tran Thanh Man (R) and Saysomphone Phomvihane, Politburo member of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of the Standing Committee of the Lao Front for National Construction (Photo: VNA) 

Hanoi (VNA) – Secretary of the Party CentralCommittee and Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland FrontTran Thanh Man hosted a reception in Hanoi on August 14 for SaysomphonePhomvihane, Politburo member of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party andPresident of the Standing Committee of the Lao Front for National Construction.

The Lao official is here to attend the funeral of late PartyGeneral Secretary Le Kha Phieu.

Man extended best wishes to the Lao official on the occasionof the 70th anniversary of the Lao front, and affirmed the Vietnamesefront always attaches special importance to and hopes to strengthen its cooperationwith the Lao counterpart. He also stressed that the two organisations should furtherintensify their comprehensive cooperation and mutual support in the context ofthe complicated development of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Vietnamese official proposed the two side coordinatewith the Cambodian front to hold an online tripartite in November this year.

The Vietnamese and Lao fronts will closely coordinate tohold the international conference on the building the Vietnam – Laos borderline of peace, friendship, cooperation for joint development at a suitable datein 2021, Man affirmed.

For his part, the Lao official highlighted the relations of traditionalfriendship and special solidarity between the two countries as an invaluable property,and stressed that the cooperative relations between the two fronts have beenunceasingly consolidated and strengthened, making great contributions to theacceleration of the traditional relations between the two Parties, States andpeoples.

He also affirmed the Lao front will closely coordinate withthe Vietnamese one to effectively realise the contents of the cooperationprogramme already signed and join hands in organising the online conferenceamong the Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian fronts in November, as well as theinternational conference on the building of the Vietnam – Lao border line./. 
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