NA Chairman receives President of State Audit Organisation, meets former leader of Laos

Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue received Malaythong Kommasith, President of the State Audit Organisation of Laos, in Vientiane on May 16 afternoon as part of his official visit to the neighbouring country.
NA Chairman receives President of State Audit Organisation, meets former leader of Laos ảnh 1Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue (R) shakes hands with Malaythong Kommasith, President of the State Audit Organisation of Laos. (Photo: VNA)

Vientiane (VNA) - Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue received Malaythong Kommasith, President of the StateAudit Organisation of Laos, in Vientiane on May 16 afternoon as part of his official visit to the neighbouring country.

Hue expressed his pleasure tomeet Malaythong, affirming his interest in the state audit sector asone who have many experience in the field.

Malaythong also expressed his honour to meet with Hue,mentioning his appreciation for many important initiatives of the latter while still holding the position of StateAuditor General of Vietnam,such as the rotating mechanism to organise meetings of audit agencies of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (CLV); putting many cooperation contents between the two state audit agencies of Vietnam and Laos into the content ofjoint cooperation between the two governments; creating favourable conditions for many delegations of theState Audit Office of Vietnam tocome to Laos to share valuable experience, contributing to the development ofthe relationship between the two audit agencies.

Malaythongannounced that in July 2021, the President of the State Audit of Laos had anonline meeting with the State Auditor General of Vietnam to review and re-evaluate the cooperationbetween the two agencies over the past time, through which the two sides agreedto continue promoting cooperation in training auditors, cooperation inimproving audit and post-audit quality in the coming time.

Thetwo sides will also workto develop a cooperation agreement, promoting the exchange of delegations, training and experience sharing on modernising the audit work.

On the occasion of the Laos-Vietnam, Vietnam-Laos Year of Solidarity andFriendship 2022 to celebrate 60 years of establishingdiplomatic relations and 45 years of signing the Treaty of Amity andCooperation between the two countries, the two state audit agencies also expected to organise many activities.

Hue suggested that in thecoming time, the two state audit agencies of Vietnam and Laos should further enhance cooperation contents and comprehensive formsin order to continue to improve organisational capacity and professional expertise at each agency, to become model agencies at INTOSAI, ASOSAI, ASEANSAI.

He also conveyed aninvitation to visit Vietnam from Auditor General of the State Audit Officeof Vietnam Tran Sy Thanh to President of the StateAudit Organisation of Laos Malaythong Kommasith.

Also on May 16, NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue met former Prime Minister, former Chairman of the National Assembly of Laos Thongsing Thammavong.

NA Chairman receives President of State Audit Organisation, meets former leader of Laos ảnh 2NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (L) meets former Prime Minister, former Chairman of the National Assembly of Laos Thongsing Thammavong. (Photo: VNA)

He conveyed the regards from Vietnam’s Party GeneralSecretary Nguyen Phu Trong, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime MinisterPham Minh Chinh to the Lao former leader, affirming that Thongsingis a close friend of Vietnam who had made many contributions to strengtheningand developing the relationship between the two National Assemblies and the twocountries. 

Hue said he hopes that Thongsing willcontinue his contributions to his country's development as well as furtherpromote the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperationbetween Vietnam and Laos.

For his part, the Lao former leader spoke highly of thesignificance of Hue’s visit and expressed his expectation that the NationalAssembly of Vietnam will continue to share experiences with the NationalAssembly of Laos, contributing to strengthening the relationship between thetwo legislative bodies. 

He also highly valued the workshop on sharing experiences onmechanisms and policies for socio-economic recovery and development after theCOVID-19 pandemic which was jointly held by the two national assemblies andsaid he hopes similar seminars will be held in the future./.

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