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Vietnam gives highest priority to developing ties with Laos: PM

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has told Lao Minister of Planning and Investment Khamchen Vongphosy that Vietnam always attaches great importance to and give the highest priority to maintaining and developing its special relationship with Laos, considering it as a valuable asset with an important role in the revolutionary cause in each country.
Vietnam gives highest priority to developing ties with Laos: PM ảnh 1Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) shakes hands with Lao Minister of Planning and Investment Khamchen Vongphosy. (Photo: VNA) 
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hastold Lao Minister of Planning and Investment Khamchen Vongphosy that Vietnamalways attaches great importance to and give the highest priority to maintainingand developing its special relationship with Laos, considering it as a valuable asset with an important role in the revolutionary cause in each country.

Receiving Khamchen, who is also head of theCommittee for Laos-Vietnam Cooperation in Hanoi on September 14, PM Chinh askedthe two Ministries of Planning and Investment and the two cooperation committees to work more closely together and urge other ministries, sectorsand localities to actively promote their collaboration mechanisms, while strengtheningthe efficiency of the cooperation committee mechanism.

The two sides should coordinate closely in preparing for the46th meeting of the Vietnam-Laos Inter-Governmental Committee, and completingthe Vietnam-Laos cooperation plan for 2023, contributing to concretising agreementsreached by senior leaders of the two countries with specific results and newbreakthroughs, he said.

Vietnam gives highest priority to developing ties with Laos: PM ảnh 2Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) receives Lao Minister of Planning and Investment Khamchen Vongphosy. (Photo: VNA)
Particularly, the two sides should strengthen economicconnectivity, especially connections in transport, consider deploying Vientiane-Vung Ang railway project, remove difficulties facing major jointprojects and launch new cooperation projects, he said.

He stressed the need to promote investment activities ofbusinesses of the two sides with suitable mechanisms and policies, while optimisingeach other’s advantages to supplement each other in terms of markets and materials, and rollingout measures to enhance two-way trade.

The Vietnamese leader suggested the twosides continue strengthening their political-diplomatic relations and meetingsamong leaders of ministries, sectors and localities; promoting cooperationin security and defence; coordinating in ensuring political stability,social security, safety and order in each country, especially along the sharedborder, and collaborating closely at multilateral forums.

For his part, Khamchen briefed his host on the outcomes ofthe mid-term meeting of the Cooperation Committee between the two countries. Heproposed Vietnam continue supporting Laos in performing the role of ASEANChair in 2024.

The minister affirmed that the Lao Ministry of Planning andInvestment and the Laos-Vietnam Cooperation Committee as well as himself willcontinue to work hard to foster collaboration between the two countries and concretise agreements and directions of senior leaders of the two nations,thus bolstering the greatfriendship, special solidarity and comprehensive between the two countries.

PM Chinh pledged that Vietnam always stands side by side with Laos andsupports the neighbouring country in successfully performing the role of ASEANChair 2024./.
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