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Lao Deputy PM visits Vietnam

Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad, who is also Chairman of the Laos-Vietnam Cooperation Sub-Committee, had a busy schedule during his working visit to cities and provinces of Vietnam from April 5-10.
Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad, who is also Chairman ofthe Laos-Vietnam Cooperation Sub-Committee, had a busy schedule duringhis working visit to cities and provinces of Vietnam from April 5-10.

The visit is part of activities to celebrate theVietnam-Laos Solidarity and Friendship Year. It was made at theinvitation of Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who isChairman of the Vietnam-Laos Cooperation Subcommittee.

On April 5 and 6, the Lao Deputy PM attended the opening ceremony ofthe third Coconut Festival in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Treand a number of economic establishments in the locality.

The next day, he paid a courtesy visit to Prime Minister Nguyen TanDung, joined a banquet hosted by Deputy PM Phuc and attended the openingceremony of the Hue Festival in the central province of ThuaThien-Hue .

On April 9, the Lao Deputy PM made afact-finding trip of several economic establishments in Nghe Anprovince, including a dairy farm of TH Truemilk Group, an area ofmaterial trees and branch of the Bank for Investment and Development ofVietnam (BIDV).

The visit is expected to contributeto tightening the friendship, special solidarity and comprehensivecooperation between Vietnam and Laos in general and the twocountries’ localities in particular.

As scheduled, Somsavat Lengsavad will leave Nghe An province on April 10./.
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