Man made the statement while meeting his visiting Laocounterpart Sommad Pholsena, who also serves as Chairman of the Lao Committeefor Peace and Solidarity, in Hanoi.
The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations and itsmembers – the Vietnam Peace Committee and the Vietnam – Laos FriendshipAssociation have closely coordinated with those of Laos to host variousmeaningful activities, he noted, adding that both sides have also offeredactive support to each other at multilateral people-to-people forums,contributing to reinforcing the long-standing ties between the two countries.
He urged the Vietnam Peace Committee and the Lao Committeefor Peace and Solidarity to come up with more practical and specific cooperationprogrammes and to educate younger generations of Vietnam and Laos on the twocountries’ special traditional friendship and their major joint events.
Pholsena, for his part, updated his host on the outcomes ofthe meeting between the two committees, saying the two sides share deepawareness of their important roles in diplomacy and people-to-people exchange.
Agreeing with Man’s proposal, he pledged Laos will continuepromoting education on and nurturing the bilateral ties. Laos will also step upcultural exchange, trade and tourism promotion with Vietnam and work with itsneighbour to address war aftermaths and take mine action.
During the meeting, NA Vice Chairman Man also highlightedthe growing partnership between the two countries’ legislatures after the visitof Lao NA Chairman Saysomphone Phomvihane to Vietnam in December 2021 and thatof top Vietnamese legislator Vuong Dinh Hue to Laos in May 2022, noting that progressof investment projects has been accelerated.
Obstacles to the two countries’ economic cooperation hasbeen actively removed thanks to concerted efforts of the two NAsand Governments, he said./.
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