At the awarding ceremony (Photo: VNA) Thai Nguyen (VNA) – The Lao State hasrecognised significant contributions of collectives and individuals inVietnam’s northern Thai Nguyen province to training human resources for the Laonorthern provinces of Luang Prabang, Phongsaly, Luang Namtha, and Oudomxay.
Khamkhanh Chanthavisouk, Secretary ofthe Luang Prabang Party Committee and Governor of the Laoprovince, on behalf of the Lao Prime Minister, presented noble orders andmedals of the Lao State to outstanding units and individuals at a ceremony heldin Thai Nguyen on July 9.
He presented a second-class Freedom Order toTran Quoc To, Secretary of the Thai Nguyen Party Committee; and a third-classFreedom Order to Nhu Van Tam, Vice Chairman of the Thai Nguyen People’sCommittee.
Eleven other individuals and six collectivesreceived Friendship Orders and Medals bestowed by the Lao State.
Secretary of the Thai Nguyen Party CommitteeTran Quoc To expressed his honour to receive the order and stressed that localauthorities and people have bee deeply aware of the preservation anddevelopment of the Vietnam-Laos traditional friendship.
He added that the friendship and cooperationbetween Thai Nguyen and Luang Prabang have been built for many years with thesigning of two Memoranda of Understanding on information and experienceexchanges in building the Party and political system, supporting administrativeprocedures in socio-economic development policy mechanism and investment, andhuman resources training.
Thai Nguyen has helped Luang Prabang train 229students with a total expense of over 43 billion VND (1.84 million USD), andbuild a seven-billion-VND (301,000 USD) education project, he said.
Khamkhanh Chanthavisouk hoped that the twoprovinces will continue sharing experience in building the Party and governmentin addition to nurturing the bilateral traditional friendship, specialsolidarity, and comprehensive cooperation, especially in the field of humanresources training.-VNA
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