Vietnam is willing to be a bridge that
links the Czech Republic and ASEAN countries and always tries to
implement recent commitments signed between the two countries’
high-ranking officials.
The newly-established government of
Japan will further step up its relations with Vietnam, said the
Japanese Cabinet Secretary for Public Relations, Hiroshi Ogawa.
The People’s Committee of central Thua Thien-Hue
province has decided to provide 100 tonnes of rice for victims of
typhoon Ketsana in two Lao provinces of Saravane and Sekong.
State President Nguyen Minh Triet
attended a ceremony held in Hanoi on Oct. 9 to mark the 135th
anniversary of World Post Day and launch the 39th Universal Post Union
(UPU) Letter Writing Contest.
Minister of Defence General Phung Quang
Thanh on October 5 received a visiting delegation of Russian scientists
who have helped Vietnam preserve the late President Ho Chi Minh’s
embalmed body.
Sixty delegates from the Ho Chi Minh
Communist Youth Union (HCM CYU) will attend the Vietnam - Laos Youth
Friendship Meeting 2009 scheduled for between October 2-9 in Laos.
To Huy Rua, Politburo member and
Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of its Commission of
Information and Education, has affirmed to help Laos in all fields,
particularly in personnel training.
Vietnam wishes to join hands with
Singapore in stepping up their bilateral friendship and cooperation in
an effective manner for the benefit of the two peoples and the common
interests of all regional nations.
Vietnam and Cambodia should continue to
strengthen cooperation on land management, urban planning and
construction to contribute to consolidating and promoting the two
countries’ fine friendship.
Minister of Justice and Attorney
General Alison Redford of Alberta Province, Canada, has pledged to
continue with a project called “justice development and commitments to
people” in Vietnam.
A delegation of the Communist Party of
Vietnam’s Commission for External Relations, headed by Hoang Binh Quan,
Politburo member and chairman of the commission, began a three-day
working visit to Laos on August 7.
Vietnam and Cambodia should strengthen
trade union cooperation, in line with the current global trend to
emphasise the necessity of cooperation and association among trade
unions.
Four Mekong delta localities, including
An Giang, Kien Giang, Ca Mau and Can Tho city, have been cooperating on
a programme to develop the tourist industry in the next five years and
through 2020.
Choummaly Sayasone, General Secretary
of the Lao People Revolutionary Party and State President, highly
valued the sincere and effective assistance from the Vietnam Women’s
Union (VWU) to Laos while receiving a high-level delegation of the VWU
in Vientiane on July 16.