PM Dung meets with Lao, Cambodian leaders

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met with leaders of Laos and Cambodia in Vientiane on Dec. 9 before he attended the opening ceremony of the 25th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 25).
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen TanDung met with leaders of Laos and Cambodia in Vientiane on Dec. 9before he attended the opening ceremony of the 25th Southeast AsianGames (SEA Games 25).

During a meeting with the LaoParty General Secretary and State President, Choummaly Sayasone, PMDung wished SEA Games 25 a success and said Vietnam already did andwill do its utmost to help Laos successfully host the sporting event

Vietnam attaches great importance and gives priority to developingspecial friendship, solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with Laos, said PM Dung, who has been in Laos as a guest of his Lao counterpart,Bouasone Bouphavanh.

He proposed the Lao government to continue creating favourableconditions for Vietnamese companies to invest in the fields oftransport, energy, finance and banking on the basis of mutual benefit.

The PM congratulated Laos on its 34 th National Day as well asachievements it reaped in recent years, especially in 2009 when thecountry maintained political stability, high economic growth, expandingforeign relations and improved its position in the region and theinternational arena.

Party General Secretary Sayasone thanked Vietnam for assisting Laos inhosting SEA Games 25, describing it as evidence of the Vietnam-Laosspecial solidarity and between Southeast Asian nations.

The Laos leader said he was delighted at the progress in bilateraleconomic, trade and investment ties, and stressed that the flow ofVietnamese investment created a momentum to foster Laos’s economicdevelopment.

At the talks with Lao PM Bouphavanh, the two prime ministers agreedthat their respective countries hold huge potentials for furthercooperation, particularly in hydroelectricity, mining, transport,industrial crops growing and processing.

Despite the impacts of the global financial-economic crisis, thisyear’s two-way trade forecasts to be kept at the same level of 423million USD as last year.

Vietnam has emerged as one of the largest foreign investors in Laoswith 48 projects totalling 1.4 billion USD licensed in 2009 alone, theprime ministers noted.

PM Dung thanked the Lao government for 1,000 cu.m of wood it granted toresidents in Vietnam ’s central region, who were heavily affected bytyphoon Ketsana.

For his part, PM Bouphavanh affirmed that the Lao government will tryits best to step up cooperative relations between the two nations.

PM Bouphavanh thanked Vietnam for its support during the SEA Games 25and expressed his belief that the Vietnamese athletes will bring homemany medals from the event.

While receiving President of the Lao Front for National ConstructionSisavat Keobounphan, PM Dung spoke highly of Keobounphan’s role indeveloping the Laos front and believed that Laos will fulfill thisyear’s socio-economic targets.

Keobounphan said exchanges and seminars held in recent yearscontributed greatly to improving public awareness of the valuableheritage of the loyal relationship between Vietnam and Laos .

Also on Dec. 9, PM Nguyen Tan Dung met with his Cambodian counterpartHun Sen to discuss ways of further promoting bilateral ties, especiallyin the areas of economics, trade and investment.

PM Dung thanked the Cambodian government for its creation of favourableconditions for Vietnamese enterprises to make successful investments inaviation, banking, telecoms and agriculture.

He applauded progress in the two countries’ border demarcation andmarker planting towards the completion of the job in 2012 as agreedupon by senior leaders of Vietnam and Cambodia .

As neighbours and Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN)members, Vietnam wants to join hands with Cambodia to enhancecooperation in all spheres, especially in economics, trade andinvestment for development in each country and the whole region, PMDung said.

PM Hun Sen noted with pleasure promising results in bilateralcooperation as well as the increasing flow of Vietnamese investment inCambodia .

The Cambodian leader lauded effective cooperation in aviation, telecomsand energy and pledged to continue facilitating Vietnamese firms’business activities in Cambodia./.

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