Delegates of Vietnam and Laos to the get-together. (Photo: VNA) Attending the event were Lao DeputyPrime Minister and Minister of National Defence General Chansanmone Chanyalath; Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Security General Vilay Lakhamphong; Senior LieutenantGeneral Luong Dinh Hong, Political Commissar of the National Defence Academy ofVietnam; Chargé d'affaires of the Vietnamese Embassy in Laos Phan Minh Chien; representatives of the Defence Attaché Office, the Vietnamese community; officials of Lao ministries and agencies, and nearly 300 military officers of Laos who once studied inVietnam.
Hong expressed his hope that leaders of the Lao Party, State and Ministry of National Defence continue to trust and feel secure in sending their soldiers andstudents to get training in Vietnam.
He said he believed these trainees continue to be importantfactors contributing to building the revolutionary, regular and elite LaoPeople's Armed Forces, successfully implementing the national construction anddefence cause; and serve as a bridge to tighten the special solidarity betweenVietnam and Laos.
General Chansanmone Chanyalath affirmed the Lao Party, Stateand people always bear in mind the valuable support of the VPA for Laos’s cause of national construction and safeguarding.
In its foreign policy, Laos always attaches importance to,prioritises and does its best to, together with the Vietnamese Party, State, armyand people, preserve and develop the great friendship, specialsolidarity and comprehensive cooperation between the two nations, armies and people to a new height./.
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