Vietnamese and Lao experts met in Luang Prabang city, Laos , onAugust 10 to review the two countries’ cooperation in the first monthsof 2012.
The meeting aims to prepare the mid-term session of the Vietnam-Laos Inter-Governmental Committee to be held soon in the city.
At the event, deputy head of the Vietnam-Laos CooperationSub-committee Cao Viet Sinh, who is also Deputy Minister of Planning andInvestment, and his Lao counterpart Phonsuc Khonsombath said that bothsub-committees have actively implemented agreements to beef uptraditional relations and their special friendship.
They said both countries have recorded positive results in bilateralcooperation; safeguarded social security and order; and implemented aproject to reinforce and upgrade the national border marker system at acorrect pace.
The education sectors of the twocountries have coordinated with their relevant ministries and sectors incarrying out a scheme to improve the quality and effectiveness of theircooperation in education and training, they said.
Atpresent, Vietnam has 435 investment projects in Laos totalling 5.2billion USD, becoming a leading investor among 53 countries andterritories investing in the country. Two-way trade reached 465 millionUSD in the first half of the year.
However, both sidesunderscored the need to bring into play their strategies to deployagreements reached by the two countries’ leaders for the Vietnam-LaosFriendship Year 2012. These agreements focus particularly on education,human resources training, investment cooperation; the early signing ofan agreement on investment encouragement and protection to replace the1996 agreement, and the regular exchanges of information to promote thetwo countries’ comprehensive cooperation.-VNA
The meeting aims to prepare the mid-term session of the Vietnam-Laos Inter-Governmental Committee to be held soon in the city.
At the event, deputy head of the Vietnam-Laos CooperationSub-committee Cao Viet Sinh, who is also Deputy Minister of Planning andInvestment, and his Lao counterpart Phonsuc Khonsombath said that bothsub-committees have actively implemented agreements to beef uptraditional relations and their special friendship.
They said both countries have recorded positive results in bilateralcooperation; safeguarded social security and order; and implemented aproject to reinforce and upgrade the national border marker system at acorrect pace.
The education sectors of the twocountries have coordinated with their relevant ministries and sectors incarrying out a scheme to improve the quality and effectiveness of theircooperation in education and training, they said.
Atpresent, Vietnam has 435 investment projects in Laos totalling 5.2billion USD, becoming a leading investor among 53 countries andterritories investing in the country. Two-way trade reached 465 millionUSD in the first half of the year.
However, both sidesunderscored the need to bring into play their strategies to deployagreements reached by the two countries’ leaders for the Vietnam-LaosFriendship Year 2012. These agreements focus particularly on education,human resources training, investment cooperation; the early signing ofan agreement on investment encouragement and protection to replace the1996 agreement, and the regular exchanges of information to promote thetwo countries’ comprehensive cooperation.-VNA
