Party General Secretary and National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong’s upcoming visit is expected to bring the traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Laos and Vietnam to a new height.
Lao Deputy Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, who is also Head of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations and Minister of Foreign Affairs, made the remark in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency before Trong’s visit from June 20-22 at the invitation of Party General Secretary and State President of Laos Choummaly Sayasone.
Sisoulith noted that this will be the first visit to Laos made by Trong since he was elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee early this year, adding that Laos is also the first country the new Party General Secretary of Vietnam chooses to visit.
According to the Lao Deputy PM, the visit will be of importance significance at a time when Vietnam successfully organised the 11 th National CPV Congress and the election of the 13 th National Assembly and Laos just completed the 9 th National LPRP Congress and the election of the 7 th National Assembly.
The visit offers an opportunity for the leaders of the two Parties and the two nations to exchange views on many issues, including international and regional situations and Laos-Vietnam bilateral cooperation, he noted.
Regarding the Vietnam-Laos special relationship, Sisoulith said Laos and Vietnam are close neighbours which stood side by side in their long-term struggle against invaders to win national independence in the past as well as work together in their current national construction and defence.
The Lao people are pleased to find that the traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Laos and Vietnam , built up by President Ho Chi Minh and President Kaysone Phomvihane and fostered by successive generations of the two Parties, two States and two peoples, have been continuously consolidated and developed, he said.
Most worthy of note was the joint project to compile the “History of Laos-Vietnam Speical Relations” and the regular organisation of high-ranking meetings.
Bilateral cooperation in national defence, security and external relations continues to be strengthened, as is bilateral cooperation in economics, culture, education, science and technology.
According to a report delivered at the 33 rd session of the Laos-Vietnam Inter-governmental Committee in Hanoi on April 2011, Vietnam remains one of the leading investors in Laos and the two countries’ import-export turnover reached 490 million USD in 2010, up 17.2 percent against the previous year.
Regarding border development cooperation, the two sides have been working together to implement a project on planting more border marks and upgrading existing ones since 2008, Sisoulith said, adding that the project has been deployed on schedule.
The cooperation and mutual assistance between the two countries’ Party, Government and National Assembly agencies, mass organisations, social organisations and localities have been expanded, he added.
The Lao Deputy PM affirmed Laos’ wish to continue protecting and developing the traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Laos and Vietnam to a new level, considering it the rule of development, an important factor for the success of the revolutionary cause in each country, and a valuable heritage of the two Parties and two nations to be passed on to next generations./.
Lao Deputy Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, who is also Head of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations and Minister of Foreign Affairs, made the remark in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency before Trong’s visit from June 20-22 at the invitation of Party General Secretary and State President of Laos Choummaly Sayasone.
Sisoulith noted that this will be the first visit to Laos made by Trong since he was elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee early this year, adding that Laos is also the first country the new Party General Secretary of Vietnam chooses to visit.
According to the Lao Deputy PM, the visit will be of importance significance at a time when Vietnam successfully organised the 11 th National CPV Congress and the election of the 13 th National Assembly and Laos just completed the 9 th National LPRP Congress and the election of the 7 th National Assembly.
The visit offers an opportunity for the leaders of the two Parties and the two nations to exchange views on many issues, including international and regional situations and Laos-Vietnam bilateral cooperation, he noted.
Regarding the Vietnam-Laos special relationship, Sisoulith said Laos and Vietnam are close neighbours which stood side by side in their long-term struggle against invaders to win national independence in the past as well as work together in their current national construction and defence.
The Lao people are pleased to find that the traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Laos and Vietnam , built up by President Ho Chi Minh and President Kaysone Phomvihane and fostered by successive generations of the two Parties, two States and two peoples, have been continuously consolidated and developed, he said.
Most worthy of note was the joint project to compile the “History of Laos-Vietnam Speical Relations” and the regular organisation of high-ranking meetings.
Bilateral cooperation in national defence, security and external relations continues to be strengthened, as is bilateral cooperation in economics, culture, education, science and technology.
According to a report delivered at the 33 rd session of the Laos-Vietnam Inter-governmental Committee in Hanoi on April 2011, Vietnam remains one of the leading investors in Laos and the two countries’ import-export turnover reached 490 million USD in 2010, up 17.2 percent against the previous year.
Regarding border development cooperation, the two sides have been working together to implement a project on planting more border marks and upgrading existing ones since 2008, Sisoulith said, adding that the project has been deployed on schedule.
The cooperation and mutual assistance between the two countries’ Party, Government and National Assembly agencies, mass organisations, social organisations and localities have been expanded, he added.
The Lao Deputy PM affirmed Laos’ wish to continue protecting and developing the traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Laos and Vietnam to a new level, considering it the rule of development, an important factor for the success of the revolutionary cause in each country, and a valuable heritage of the two Parties and two nations to be passed on to next generations./.
