Laos, VN enhance ties in environmental protection

Lao Prime Minister Bouasone Bupphavanh has expressed his wish that the Vietnamese National Assembly’s Committee for Sciences, Technology and Environment (CSTE) and the Lao Authority for Sciences and Technology (LAST) will share their experiences in environmental protection and management.
Lao Prime Minister Bouasone Bupphavanh has expressed his wish that the Vietnamese National Assembly’s Committee for Sciences, Technology and Environment (CSTE) and the Lao Authority for Sciences and Technology (LAST) will share their experiences in environmental protection and management.

While receiving visiting CSTE Chairman Dang Vu Minh in Vientiane , on July 2, PM Bouasone Bupphavanh proposed that both sides join hands in monitoring the buffer zone, protecting rare animal species along the Truong Son mountain range and seeking solar, wind and other clean energy sources.

The Lao government pays attention to environmental protection and strives to raise the country’s forest coverage to 70 percent by 2020, said the Lao PM.

Minh informed the host of the result of the working session with the LAST.

He went on to confirm that his committee is ready to cooperate with Laos in fields of mutual interest, increasing coordination in environmental protection and exchange of experiences in the field./.

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