Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong speaks during a Tet visit to the Party organisation, administration, and people of Hanoi on January 19. (Photo: VNA) In his letter, General Secretary of the Lao People’sRevolutionary Party and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith congratulated theVietnamese people on their glorious victories and enormous achievements,expressing his belief that under the judicious and clear-sighted leadership ofthe Communist Party of Vietnam, led by General Secretary Trong, the Vietnamesepeople will obtain even greater accomplishments in implementing the Resolutionof the 13th National Party Congress to realise the goal of richpeople and a strong, democratic, equal, and civilised country and firmlyprogress towards socialism.
He noted that he is proud of the Laos-Vietnam greatfriendship, special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation, which havebecome a priceless and rare asset of the two peoples and been reinforced anddeveloping substantively in all fields.
The Lao Party, State, and people sincerely thank their Vietnamese counterparts for their great, precious, effective, andtimely assistance in the spirit of comradeship, fraternity, and faithfulness,the Lao leader noted, wishing bilateral relations forever green andsustainable.
On this occasion, CPV General Secretary Trong has alsoreceived New Year greetings from General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of theDemocratic People’s Republic of Korea and President of the country Kim Jong-un,President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President HalimahYacob and Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong, President of theRepublic of Korea Yoon Suk-yeol, Prime Minister of Japan Kishida Fumio and hiswife, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, President of Palestine and Chairmanof the Palestine Liberation Organisation Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of theNational Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Wang Yang, Vice President of China WangQishan, Chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation GennadyZyuganov, Chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle Megawati Sukarnoputri,along with leaders of many other countries, political parties, international organisations,and the diplomatic corps in Vietnam./.