PM Pham Minh Chinh (R) and Chairman of the Laos - Vietnam Friendship Association Boviengkham Vongdara at the meeting in Vientiane on January 11 (Photo: VNA) Stressing the traditional friendship between Vietnam andLaos, PM Chinh highly valued the cooperation results between the Vietnam - Laosand Laos - Vietnam friendship associations, especially in the Solidarity andFriendship Year 2022, which have helped promote people-to-people exchanges andthe two peoples’ awareness of the special bilateral relations.
He also applauded activities of the Laos - Vietnam FriendshipAssociation last year, asking it to set up branches in localities and developnew and creative forms of exchanges to further augment the great friendship andspecial solidarity between the two sides.
Boviengkham Vongdara said the two friendship organisationsheld a large number of activities in the Solidarity and Friendship Year 2022. AsMinister of Technology and Communications of Laos, he has also carried out manycooperation activities with Vietnamese partners, including building Vietnameselanguage teaching centres.
The Laos - Vietnam Friendship Association has always paidattention to communications so that the Lao people, particularly the young, arefully aware of the great friendship, special solidarity, and comprehensivecooperation between the two Parties, States, and peoples, he noted, pledging todo his utmost to help nurture relations between the countries./.