National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue arrives back Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport (Photo: VNA) With more than 60 activities, the trip fulfilled all goalsand requirements set out both bilaterally and multilaterally, making it apractical step in realising the foreign policy of the 13th National PartyCongress and the Party Central Committee Secretariat’s Directive 25, raising the level of multilateraldiplomacy and further strengthening relations with neighbouring countries inASEAN, which are very important partners of Vietnam.
In the first CLV Parliamentary Summit, top legislators ofthe three countries signed a joint statement on promoting the parliamentaryrole in bolstering the comprehensive cooperation among the three countries, inwhich they re-affirmed their commitment to expanding and deepening theparliamentary cooperation and partnership with a view to maintaining andprotecting the close collaboration for common benefits among the threeparliaments, thus contributing to promoting collaboration across politics,security, defence, culture and economy for the socio-economic development inthe CLV countries.
National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (L) and his Lao and Cambodian counterparts at the first Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Parliamentary Summit (Photo: VNA) In his talks with his Lao counterpart Saysomphone Phomvihane,Hue affirmed that Vietnam always gives the highest priority to the greattraditional relations between the two countries, and always stands side by side with Laos andstrongly and comprehensively supports its national construction and reform.
Meanwhile, Hue’s visit was the first official visit to Thailand by a high-ranking Vietnamese leader after Thailand's new Government had been formed, and on the occasion of the10th anniversary of the two countries’ strategicpartnership.
In Bangkok and Udon Thani, Hue hadtalks, and met with Thailand’s senior leaders, and he was also the firstforeign top legislator to meet the Thai King and Queen.
He also met representatives from leading Thai firms and theVietnamese community, and delivered a keynote speech at ChulalongkornUniversity in Bangkok./.
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