Vietnam, Laos reinforce ties in social security

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) is ready to further intensify the friendship and cooperation with the Lao Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (MoLSW) and the Lao Social Security Organisation (LSSO), VSS Deputy General Director Dao Viet Anh has said.
Vietnam, Laos reinforce ties in social security ảnh 1The working session between the Vietnam Social Security and the Lao Social Security Organisation in Quang Nam province on August 25 (Photo: VNA)
Quang Nam (VNA) – The VietnamSocial Security (VSS) is ready to further intensify the friendship andcooperation with the Lao Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (MoLSW) and theLao Social Security Organisation (LSSO), VSS Deputy General Director DaoViet Anh has said.

Officials of the VSS and LSSO had aworking session in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam on August 25 to lookinto the implementation of the memorandum of understanding on cooperation for2016 - 2020 and discuss cooperation orientations for the time ahead.

Anh said the VSS, which set uprelations with the MoLSW and LSSO in 1998, always attaches importance to thefriendship and partnership in social security with the Lao partners, and that thetwo sides have carried out many cooperation activities.

He underlined the agency's readiness to step up bilateral ties to implement jointprogrammes in the coming time, thereby further strengthening their close-knit relations, and ensuring maximum benefits for people and businesses inthe two countries.

LSSO General Director KeoChanthavixay highly valued the implementation outcomes of the MoU for 2016 -2020, signed between the VSS and the MoLSW, stressing that enhancing social securitycooperation with the VSS is among his organisation’s tasks for the coming time.

Under the MoU, the VSS and LSSO carried out nine main cooperation activitiesthrough which their personnel’s capacity, the implementation of social securitypolicies, and the countries’ stature in social security in the internationalarena have been improved.

At the meeting, the two sides also discusseda draft MoU on cooperation for 2022 - 2025.

The VSS and LSSO are set to hold anMoU signing ceremony on the sidelines of the 39th ASEAN SocialSecurity Association Board Meeting in Vientiane, Laos this November./.
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